17 years later.

I remember watching the events at Tiananmen Square unfold when I was in Junior High. I was home that week because I had a bad case of the flu, and got to watch it all live on CNN. It was terrible, and I'll never forget it. It was a terrible loss of the young idealists that China would need to help speed up the progress and reform.

I went to Tiananmen Square when I was in China and there were no monuments or memorials to the events of June 4, 1989. It was as if the event never happened... but the people still quietly remember. The rest of the world remembers too. So as China opens up to the world, I hope that change and progress is happening on all fronts. Not just economically, but socially and politically as well.