1.) 9/11/01- I realized America is vulnerable. How could that happen even be possible, it was like the worst horror movie ever, sadly a real one. I guess I was naive to think something like this could not happen on such a large scale. Sure I remember when new york was bombed in the 90's, the Oklahoma bombing as well. There was never an event before that which made me pay attention to the world. There are other people out there, whom may want to harm us. It was just crazy, I was in those towers the summer before, crazy place. It was just something that made you think nothing is out of the realm of possibility and the world is not such a happy place all the time.
2.) '08 elections - I realized America is probably going to change, not for the good. I don't really want to get into that.
3.) 2/18/01- Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona. Never occurred to me how vulnerable we are as people. Watching the on board you see him following his son, then the 8 car slips out of frame as the wall approaches, then that was it. It showed me that you never know just what your going to be doing the next minute, if anything at all, no matter who you are. He was a legend regardless of if some choose to accept it or not. May seem trivial, but it was a serious event to me.