“Twenty years ago”

1. On June 4th, 2009 at 3:23 pm LaserJock Says:

   Wow, 20 years?! I guess I was 7 at the time. I can still remember watching it on TV and thinking that those people must be so brave. I was truly thankful to live in the US, even with all of its faults.

2. On June 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm Jared Says:

   My Chinese co-worker said she didn’t know about it until she came to the US. She seemed rather surprised.

3. On June 4th, 2009 at 10:14 pm szeldon Says:

   I’m from Poland and this date is really important here. Yeah, we know about Tiananmen, but it’s also a day when there were first democratic election. Communist party had lost so badly and for polish people this is really big. After few months Berlin wall fall, Hungary had similar election and everything was peaceful.

   This is something big for most polish people.

4. On June 4th, 2009 at 10:24 pm matthew Says:

   Thanks for adding that, szeldon. That is a big deal.

5. On June 5th, 2009 at 1:30 am Zac Says:

   Wow, 20 years has gone by quick. I remember sitting in a hotel room watching it peacefully on TV while people were being shot and hurt. Twenty years later, understand more or maybe even less so I wonder if the reason was the economic reforms that the Government was trying to forcibly impose. The circumstances are not so cut and dried as the mainstream media wants us to believe. Watching a news segment for 60 seconds is not going to make people understand what and why it happened. Nevertheless, it is certainly a significant event in history for them.

6. On June 6th, 2009 at 4:44 am immy Says:

   I hope you guys won’t forget how Israel bulldozed many innocent civilians’ homes and also a journalist who stood against it.

7. On June 7th, 2009 at 4:48 pm ayenack Says:

   Just watched an advert by a very big banking company. In the advert they show how in China Chinese fishermen use birds (Heron I think) to catch fish for them. The bank mentions how they connect with local customs and communities, even the remote ones. It struck me that there was a metaphor within a metaphor.

   The Chinese fishermen get the birds to catch the fish and then drop the fish into their fish baskets. The way they do this is by taking the birds from their nest as young chicks and bringing them up, all the time training the fish not to swallow the fish they catch by tying a string around the birds neck making it impossible to swallow. The birds then relinquish the fish to the fishermen. Ingenious is it not. After traning the birds they take them out onto the lakes with them, still choked, and the birds capture the fish for the fishermen. At the end of the day the fishermen feed the fish!