The first big news story I can remember as a young kid was the first Gulf War. I remember it all over thew news then with all of the printed infographics that showed the flight paths that the new F-117 stealth bombers took to bomb various cities.
Didn't really know what everything meant at the time but there were explosions and cool planes and that was enough to captivate me as a young kid (was six or seven at the time). They also started selling desert storm collector cards right next to the hockey cards at the stores and I remember getting my first Mario Lemieux upper deck card the same time I got the M1A1 Abrams.
Probably remembered it because I had just watched Top Gun a couple of months prior to the war happening.
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