19th December 2006, 8:04 PM
Thanks for the giving me the idea, Ryan. I've since taken in it and run with it for a touchdown. I added a little bit in there about how people use the coming of the new year to remember different events that happened in past years. I bring up three such events, two of which are what you might expect while the other just goes to show that the more things change the more they stay the same. Here's the paragraph in question:
Quote:Scattered among the flags were also some white coats and jackets. Many in the crowd were wearing them to honor the anniversaries of several major events that had occurred over the past twenty years. Some were marking the fifth year since the accident at the Southern London fusion plant, which had resulted in the destruction of three square miles of the city and the death of thousands; others marked the twelfth year since the explosion of the Everest II passenger ship, which had caused the death of 560 people including the Secretary General of the European Union; and still others marked the twentieth year since the North American Free Trade Zone won fourteen gold medals in the 178th annual Solar Trilympics in the Free City of Qatar. Each group denoted the event it was remembering by placing a number on the back of their jacket or coat that corresponded to the number of years since the event had taken place.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.