What is the first important news story you remember experiencing as a child?
Greetings friends participating in the Memoir Monday challenge. Today in week number 7, friend @ericvancewalton, invites us to discuss The first important news story you remember experiencing as a child. Go to link and share your experience. Here's mine.
There are three important news that had a great impact on me as a child, seeing the proximity of their dates I imagine that it was at that age, around nine years old, when I became aware of those events in the outside world that make you see that there is a world outside the family and school.
I remember that we were on a beach on the central coast, at that time it was called Vargas State whose capital was La Guaira, located on the edge of the beautiful Caribbean Sea. We still lived in Caracas and these were the closest beaches to which we went with some frequency.
It was April 5, 1969 and while we were there, on that sunny day, the adults around us began to comment that Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan writer and politician who had been president of Venezuela, had died.
That day someone had a radio and people began to crowd around it to hear the details of the news. With time I came to know the literary work of this great author, which is within the genre of costumbrista and which I enjoyed extensively throughout high school.
The second piece of news I read in the newspaper and although it is not "relevant", for me it was. My sisters and I were cleaning my grandfather's room, an activity that motivated us a lot because we invariably got coins on the floor that supplemented our school snacks, hahahaha.
Part of the cleaning was to pick up the newspaper, El Nacional, which along with others was scattered with its four bodies on the floor. At one of those times, I took one of the bodies of the newspaper to fold it and stack it, but I read the headline, I imagine it said something like this: "Band of thieves made up of three men and a woman caught".
It was shocking, in my head there was no way a woman could be a thief, that was "men's work". I remember putting the newspaper away for my mom to explain and I imagine she said something like: -Mary, there are good people and bad people, regardless of whether they are male or female.
I am also sure that my mother, grandmother and aunts, in their eagerness to take care of us and protect us, had installed in us the old belief that "all men are bad" except for the sons, of course.
The third piece of news, which was the first that came to my mind when I read the topic of the week, was the arrival of man on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a piece of news that created a lot of expectation, at school and in the family we only talked about what was going to happen: the takeoff of the Apollo 11 rocket, the astronauts, beings with special conditions, the moon and its possibilities of finding life.
I remember that day very vividly, we were my mother with her five children and an aunt who lived with us, in front of the TV, excitedly waiting for the rocket doors to open and a man to walk on the moon, when it happened we were all clapping, jumping, it was like a party very much ours, I think that this event made me feel for the first time that I was part of something bigger, part of humanity.
However, immediately the doubt was also installed, because a very dear aunt who lived in another city, after the first minutes, called by phone and said crying that it was a lie, that they were NASA's inventions, because it was impossible that man was walking on the moon. As the days went by, I kept asking myself why my aunt did not believe it if we saw it on television?
As a teenager, I was still passionate about the subject, as time went by, news and "proofs" that denied the fact were appearing, still today, there are those who affirm that what we saw did not happen, but for me, everything I saw that July 20th, I lived it as a real fact.
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¿Cuál es la primera noticia importante que recuerdas haber vivido de niño?
Saludos amigos participantes del reto Memoir Monday. Hoy en la semana número 7 el amigo @ericvancewalton, nos invita a conversar sobre La primera noticia importante que recuerdas haber vivido de niño. Entra al link y comparte tu vivencia. Aquí comento la mía.
Hay tres noticias importantes que de niña me impactaron mucho, viendo la cercanía de sus fechas me imagino que fue en esa edad, rondando los nueve años, cuando tomé consciencia de esos aconteceres del mundo exterior que te hacen ver que existe un mundo fuera de la familia y la escuela.
Recuerdo que estábamos en una playa del litoral central, en aquel momento era llamado el Estado Vargas cuya capital era La Guaira, ubicado al borde del bello Mar Caribe. Aun vivíamos en Caracas y estas eran las playas más cercanas a las cuales íbamos con cierta frecuencia.
Era el 5 de abril de 1969 y estando allí, en ese soleado día, los adultos que se encontraban a nuestro alrededor comenzaron a comentar que había muerto Rómulo Gallegos, escritor y político venezolano que había sido presidente de Venezuela.
Ese día alguien tenía un radio y la gente comenzó a aglomerarse a su alrededor para escuchar los detalles de la noticia. Con el tiempo conocí la obra literaria de este gran autor que se encuentra dentro del género costumbrista y que disfruté ampliamente a lo largo del bachillerato.
La segunda noticia la leí en el periódico y aunque no es “relevante”, para mi si lo fue. Mis hermanas y yo estábamos limpiando el cuarto de mi abuelo, actividad que nos motivaba mucho porque invariablemente conseguíamos monedas en el suelo que complementaban nuestras meriendas escolares, jajajja.
Parte de la limpieza era recoger el periódico, El Nacional, que junto a otros estaba esparcido con sus cuatro cuerpos por el suelo. En una de esas, tomo uno de los cuerpos del periódico para doblarlo y apilarlo, pero leo el titular, me imagino que decía algo así: “Atrapada banda de ladrones conformada por tres hombre y una mujer”.
Fue impactante, en mi cabeza no cabía la posibilidad de que una mujer fuese ladrona, ese era “trabajo de hombres”. Recuerdo haber guardado el periódico para que mi mamá me explicara y me imagino que dijo algo como: —Mary, hay gente buena y gente mala, sin importar si es hombre o mujer.
También estoy segura de que mi mama, abuela y tías, en su afán de cuidarnos y protegernos habían instalado en nosotras la vieja creencia de que “todos los hombres son malos” a excepción de los hijos, por supuesto.
La tercera noticia y que fue la primera que llegó a mi mente cuando leí el tema de la semana, fue la llegada del hombre a la luna el 20 de julio del 69. Fue una noticia que creó mucha expectativa, en la escuela y la familia solo se hablaba de lo que iba a ocurrir: del despegué del cohete Apolo 11, de los astronautas, seres con condiciones especiales, de la luna y sus posibilidades de encontrar vida.
Ese día lo recuerdo de manera muy vívida, estábamos mi mamá con sus cincos retoños y una tía que vivía con nosotros, frente al televisor, emocionados esperando que se abrieran las puertas de cohete y saliera un hombre a caminar sobre la luna, cuando ocurrió todos aplaudíamos, saltábamos, era como una fiesta muy nuestra, creo que ese evento me hizo sentir por primera vez que era parte de algo más grande, parte de la humanidad.
Sin embargo, inmediatamente también se instaló la duda, pues una tía muy querida que vivía en otra ciudad, pasados los primeros minutos, llamó por teléfono y decía llorando que eso era mentira, que eran inventos de la NASA, pues era imposible que el hombre estuviese caminando sobre la luna. Al pasar los días me seguía preguntando ¿Por qué mi tía no lo cree si lo vimos por televisión?
De adolescente el tema me seguía apasionando, con el tiempo fueron apareciendo noticias y “pruebas” que negaban el hecho, todavía hoy en día, hay quienes afirma que lo que vimos no ocurrió, pero para mí, todo lo que vi ese veinte de julio, lo viví como un hecho real.
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Thanks so much for your entry this week! What a tumultuous time that decade was. There was so much going on socially and politically.
Truly there are simply good people and bad people regardless of gender. I love your Mom's response so much.
I could only relate to the moon story from reading it in the book, as I wasn't near this planet in the year it happened lol.
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As a child we always believe the things that our oldies told us. But as we grew older we realized that some things are not the way we believed it. It's just their way of protecting us and keeping us away from any harm.
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