I just love sharing my birthday with a fucking massacre.
You know how bad it was? Me neither. There is no video footage showing violence in the square itself. All existing video shows violence in the streets around the square. I do remember when the news feed was cut off.
How about sharing it with quite a big war?* OK, I don’t belong in the same year, (honestly) but 28th June seemed to be the start of some Bad Stuff in Sarajevo.
Have a happy birthday anyway.
Oops, silly me - it was “the war to end all wars”, of course.
Wow, it’s like picking a scab. I know I shouldn’t, but I go there anyways. It’s my understanding that folks in China presently don’t even know about it. And I just get all angry again.
I was an idealistic 17 year old with a real Mao hat my uncle had brought back from Xian. The democracy movement was just fucking AWESOME, and then 3000 kids are dead.