[mountainclmbr]

For me it was the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. I was in Florida watching the launch. I had watched Saturn V launches as well as dozens of shuttle launches before, including the very first shuttle launch for shuttle Columbia. It must have taken 15 minutes for all of the pieces of Challenger to fall. Looking for a shuttle or parachutes was torture. When it happened it really looked unsurvivable, but you always hope.

[thexrayboy]

Kind of depends on perspective and to an extent what you do for a living.
This topic really doesn't fit here on THR unless the subject matter gets narrowed to an appropriate level. I have seen stuff in the past that still makes it hard to sleep at night sometimes.

[Orthonym]

Really incompatible with the purpose, here. I betcha there are some old soldiers here who have seen and maybe done Godawful things, but that has nothing to do with what is legal or political, or not.

[Mortech]

Living next to Dover Air Force Base when the bodies were brought in from Jonestown , you could smell the bodies from miles away for days

[mountainclmbr]

The space program has domestic defense as a large part of its charter. Just look at N. Korea, China, Iran, etc to see we are being threatened.

[Caimlas]

Does the people jumping out of the Twin Towers on 9-11-01 count?

After that, it was a guy getting hit by a van at about 60mph on the highway. He cartwheeled.

[bogie]

The worst thing? Gotta think about that one...

The grottiest thing I ever saw was a guy who got in a bar fight walking down the street trying to hold his guts in... But that didn't really disturb me at the time, and while it was rather disgusting, it doesn't really disturb me all that much now...

Never witnessed any of the incidents of genocide first hand, but since stuff like central Africa, the killing fields, and the Kurdish purge all occured within my lifetime... Those are the worst things to have occured while I was alive. So far.

[rustymaggot]

my father dying of cancer. he was down to somthing like 60 lbs or less if i remember correctly. but it wasnt his size that was disturbing, it was the growths. knees, one eye, jaw bone, wrists. and alot of other things were huge.

they had him on so much painkillers that that level would have killed someone who hadnt worked up to it.

he slipped into a coma while i was still there and never woke up. died the next day.

a distand second was the body i saw come out of a river.



that the kind of stories you were looking for?

[Devonai]

In person? I am working hard to repress those memories. On TV? 9/11/01.

[evan price]

Working at a coroner's office and they brought in this DB that had been murdered in a crack house and stuffed up in the attic crawl space. In the middle of a hot summer. He'd been there a couple weeks before they found him. Fire rescue had to Sawzall out the attic floorboards to get the DB out because he had sort of melted and flowed onto them.
The smell hung in my clothing and hair and it took three showers to get it out.:barf:

[IndianaBoy]

Her name is Hillary......

[Frog48]

The Blackwater operatives hung from that bridge in Iraq. Or the Army Ranger & Delta soldiers being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. Both scenes were very disturbing.

"Peaceful religion of Islam"... bullshlt. :mad:

[Declaration Day]

Mine's very personal.

I walked into my mom's house one day and found her stabbed to death. Blood everywhere, look of horror frozen on her face.

The worst thing about it is she knew it was coming and refused to do anything. The woman who did it had threatened her repeatedly. I offered her a gun several times, which she declined because she was an anti. She's now dead because of it. Well that, and her poor choice of company. Also, her murderer is walking free because the local police were too inept to put her away.

It was six years ago and I can still see that look on her face.....

[geronimotwo]

my best freind was driving on the interstate, when we were struck head on. he was pushed into the backseat, leaving his arm in the front seat, and his brain on the rear seat beside him. his head/face looked like a dropped melon.

this happened because an 18 yo girl decided to look in her shopping bag to see the fine coat she had just purchased.

the girl was sentenced to 30 days in jail, as nys law does not recognize vehicular manslaughter unless drugs or alcohol are involved.

you would think a 3000 lb vehicle would constitute a deadly weapon.

what do you think would have happened if it had been an accidental firearm discharge?

[svtruth]

terrorist attacks. Was working on the 12th floor of a bldg 2000' north. Saw the second plane hit.

[hoji]

Her name is Hillary......


The realization that since 1980, the Bush or Clinton family has been in the White House and barring some kind of voter revolt, we can look forward to more of the same:barf:

This is not what the Framers intended, it is what the fought to be free from.

[Kaylee]

OT.