a) JFK was shot - 4th grade, my grandmother took me to a dentist appoinment after school
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - in high school - worked that night at a fast food restaurant - watched it on TV when I got home
c) John Lennon was shot - living in Indianapolis - watching MNF, woke up my wife when Cosell broke the news
d) the Berlin Wall fell - not much to recall - know someone whose daughter was overseas traveling and went to the wall shortly after it fell
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - work out of my house - talking to my boss on the phone and he asked if I knew anything about it, envisioned a small plane like a Cessna - when I turned on TV my knees actually buckled
f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured? saw it on TV when I took a client out to lunch
g) the Gulf War started? just got home from work - stayed up all night watching it
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured? - in my car, heard it on the radio
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured? - in bed, my wife woke me up to tell me
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