challenger...i was very young when it happened, but i remember watching it on tv and pointing out the "bunny ears" to my mother.
columbine...i was in a hotel room in AZ...happened the day I went to the Grand Canyon. Had no idea till we got to the hotel.
9-11...I was actually awake (very strange for me) because I'd cut my finger at work the night before and my mom wanted me to show my dad before he left for work himself. So there I am, unable to get back to sleep at five-something in the morning, and I went and laid on the couch downstairs. We're in the middle of watching the local news when they break in saying something had hit the WTC..."a small plane." I saw the second one hit on live television...it is an image I will never erase from my memory.
As for Columbia...my mother called me and told me that it had happened twice in my lifetime--that another space shuttle had come down.
::sigh::
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