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a) JFK was shot
My parents hadn't met yet.
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
My parents weren't even trying to have kids yet.
c) John Lennon was shot
I was 4. No idea where I was.
d) the Berlin Wall fell
I don't remember this like an incident, but I know it was happening the summer before my freshman year of college. My parents took a trip to Germany and came back with a couple chunks of Wall that they'd bought on the street.
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
At work. Sometime about when the first tower fell, somebody ran home and brought in a little TV, and we all crowded around and watched.
There's an item missing from this list! Who else remembers where they were when they heard about the Challenger disaster?
I was walking out of History class. I think I was in 9th grade. A classmate was standing in the hall, and I noticed he had a cut on his chin. I asked him what happened to him, and he said "It blew up." I said, "Naah." He said, "Yeah!" and made a "blowing up" noise.
I didn't know what he was talking about, but I assumed it had to do with the cut on his chin.
Later in the day there was an all-school assembly, and I found out what he meant.
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