History is an amazing thing, for those who are alive to experience it, or at least watch it
on the news. You get to tell your grandchildren about it and they will probably feign interest as
they run off to play with their new electronic entertainment 7000 device. I will always remember
where I was when a piece of american history took place, little more than a decade ago, my
parents took me Disney World, a place where nothing ever goes wrong and everyone is always
happy. The first couple days we were there, were mostly my parents trying to keep up with two
toddlers desperately trying to make it to the next nap time. After two days of this, on a sunday
morning, my baby brother and I, who isn’t much of a baby anymore at 6’3”, were …show more content…
My parents were in a unique, near
comatose state, which only comes from having children, in the other room. We were having fun,
simply playing, not a care in the world,
Sometime later we flip to the next channel and we both see something that we perceived
as so cool that we had to tell our parents. Just then my mother was waking up and started
preparing for today’s strenuous high stakes game of “are you tired yet?” I walk up to her and
utter the phrase that I will never forget, “mommy, airplane go boom.” My mother of course
thought I was watching some sort of cartoon and walked over to the TV just to see what the fuss
is about, and upon finding out that it was tuned to 9news her face stopped looking as jovial and
quickly turned to panic, as she thought about the million questions that went through everyone’s
head that day. She then thought of her husband, my father was in the military so he had an
obligation to protect the country and everyone in it. Would he have to go fight in a new war? Is
the war coming here? If he leaves will I ever see him again? She went to wake him up and he
went through the exact same stages she went through not thirty seconds earlier. After the …show more content…
Then as a soon as he got it, it ended, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, or at least a slight
decrease in stress, and returned to us.
Attraction after attraction after character interaction after attraction again, I couldn’t help
but notice the atmosphere of something wrong. Everyone there was stressed, each cast member
seemed to have drawn a smile onto their face just to take care of the guests, the only people who
managed to successfully hide their expression, were those in full body costumes. Parents and
children alike wanted to give Mickey a hug as a form of reassurance, so that they could feel that
everything was going to be alright. Hours went by, when the owners decided to close the
park for only the second time in the resort’s history. We were ushered out of the park and before
long, it was empty. We went back to our hotel room, it would have been commonplace for
my dad to plop down on the hotel bed and fall asleep for a couple hours, but instead he watched
the news for any information on the then developing story. Dinner as usual, then bath,
on the news. You get to tell your grandchildren about it and they will probably feign interest as
they run off to play with their new electronic entertainment 7000 device. I will always remember
where I was when a piece of american history took place, little more than a decade ago, my
parents took me Disney World, a place where nothing ever goes wrong and everyone is always
happy. The first couple days we were there, were mostly my parents trying to keep up with two
toddlers desperately trying to make it to the next nap time. After two days of this, on a sunday
morning, my baby brother and I, who isn’t much of a baby anymore at 6’3”, were …show more content…
My parents were in a unique, near
comatose state, which only comes from having children, in the other room. We were having fun,
simply playing, not a care in the world,
Sometime later we flip to the next channel and we both see something that we perceived
as so cool that we had to tell our parents. Just then my mother was waking up and started
preparing for today’s strenuous high stakes game of “are you tired yet?” I walk up to her and
utter the phrase that I will never forget, “mommy, airplane go boom.” My mother of course
thought I was watching some sort of cartoon and walked over to the TV just to see what the fuss
is about, and upon finding out that it was tuned to 9news her face stopped looking as jovial and
quickly turned to panic, as she thought about the million questions that went through everyone’s
head that day. She then thought of her husband, my father was in the military so he had an
obligation to protect the country and everyone in it. Would he have to go fight in a new war? Is
the war coming here? If he leaves will I ever see him again? She went to wake him up and he
went through the exact same stages she went through not thirty seconds earlier. After the …show more content…
Then as a soon as he got it, it ended, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, or at least a slight
decrease in stress, and returned to us.
Attraction after attraction after character interaction after attraction again, I couldn’t help
but notice the atmosphere of something wrong. Everyone there was stressed, each cast member
seemed to have drawn a smile onto their face just to take care of the guests, the only people who
managed to successfully hide their expression, were those in full body costumes. Parents and
children alike wanted to give Mickey a hug as a form of reassurance, so that they could feel that
everything was going to be alright. Hours went by, when the owners decided to close the
park for only the second time in the resort’s history. We were ushered out of the park and before
long, it was empty. We went back to our hotel room, it would have been commonplace for
my dad to plop down on the hotel bed and fall asleep for a couple hours, but instead he watched
the news for any information on the then developing story. Dinner as usual, then bath,