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by sitkack 3483 days ago
It was the first Gulf War where 24 hr news hype cycle really took off. Wolf Blitzer doing his sports announcer thing over footage of "smart bombs".
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My house didn't have cable at that time, and I was not yet in high school.

We watched the first gulf war in social studies class, putting it in league with the space shuttle challenger disaster. It was a classroom topic for a few months, and then gone.

Next year it was Rodney King and Amy Fisher or something. More irrelevant popcorn.