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Marie Miller

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40 years of Chernobyl which shook the world in its foundations. US media has other sensation fodder. You read some in European media. You hear very little about the people and what happened to them. You read a bit about pets left behind and wildlife moving in. Apparently another round of culling of wild bore.
Are we so sensation driven, do we disregard everything that does not affect us personally or do we simply hope that things will go away as they always did?
 
Chernobyl was an accident just waiting to happen. It was being run by incompetents and only one person knew enough to throw those boron rods to stop the disaster. Why didn't he? Well he was a minor player among those in charge who were favorites of the Commies who ran the country. He was terrified of taking charge as the bosses might have shot him. Such was life in the old Soviet Union. It may not have changed too much, but the media certainly will not continue to report on the survivors who were unknown to us. That town is shown periodically in the news and a new sarcophagus has been made to cover the reactor.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Do you expect the media to keep reporting on an event from 40 years ago? There will probably be some mention of it as the "anniversary" but I can't see what else is newsworthy for ongoing coverage at this point. There have been documentaries about the after-effects, including the human cost of the accident.
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Forgotten! Just like Srebrenica, 9/11, Camp Douglas, …
 
Lois E. Winters said:
Chernobyl was an accident just waiting to happen. It was being run by incompetents and only one person knew enough to throw those boron rods to stop the disaster. Why didn't he? Well he was a minor player among those in charge who were favorites of the Commies who ran the country. He was terrified of taking charge as the bosses might have shot him. Such was life in the old Soviet Union. It may not have changed too much, but the media certainly will not continue to report on the survivors who were unknown to us. That town is shown periodically in the news and a new sarcophagus has been made to cover the reactor.
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Some were not unknown to us.
 
Marie Miller said:
Forgotten! Just like Srebrenica, 9/11, Camp Douglas, …
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No one will ever forget that was alive during all those tragedies. There are memorials, museums, special events, etc., and a host of other things to honor and remember the places and the people that lived and died during those times. We won’t EVER forget during our live time, but we have to move forward in life and have hope for better tomorrows too.
 
Krystal Shay said:
No one will ever forget that was alive during all those tragedies. There are memorials, museums, special events, etc., and a host of other things to honor and remember the places and the people that lived and died during those times. We won’t EVER forget during our live time, but we have to move forward in life and have hope for better tomorrows too.
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Moving forward is a have to unless you want to break. Not sharing it with next generations outside of history lessons which are painfully pathetic in the US system - how will they learn, understand, process it?
 
Marie Miller said:
Moving forward is a have to unless you want to break. Not sharing it with next generations outside of history lessons which are painfully pathetic in the US system - how will they learn, understand, process it?
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How else would we share with next generations if not for history lessons? We'll all be dead soon. I guess I don't understand what your point is, because the horrors that have happened since the 1960's have many times been caught on tape so future generations can watch Kennedy's head explode forever.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
How else would we share with next generations if not for history lessons? We'll all be dead soon. I guess I don't understand what your point is, because the horrors that have happened since the 1960's have many times been caught on tape so future generations can watch Kennedy's head explode forever.
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As you say - you do not understand. It is something that happened somewhere. Caught on tape? Life is not caught on tape for the next generation.
 
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