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-Columbia blowing up- I was home, and read it online. I thought, "Oh no, not again"
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I was in a Best Buy and the image was being broadcast on a wall of televisions... dozens of images of the wreckage firing across the sky... I had a similar thought.
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-Columbine massacre- I was at work and this Jerk (who was also my boss) asked me if I knew where this "Columbine High School" was.
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I can't remember. At the time it wasn't all that important to me. As crass as it sounds, I probably just wrote it off as more violence from America.
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-Challenger- I was visiting some former work mates at the USGS where I had summer interned when someone told us.
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Just got home from school (grade 8?) and saw the footage all over the TV.
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-Man lands on the Moon - Mom came and got me to watch this guy on television. I remember thinking, "Gee, that picture sucks". (Stupid kid)
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I was just under a year from being born...
The shooting of Regan: Just got home from school and saw the footage
The OJ verdict: I remember studiously avoiding the trial and the whole OJ thing... I really didn't see how it mattered. My boss at the time brought a radio into her office on the day of the verdict so she could listen... when it came down she made a point of making a big deal about it saying... you will remember where you were when this verdict came out... it is a defining moment of our generation. The only reason I now remember this is because she made a big deal about it and the only reason a lot of people even care or remember this is because CNN etc. made a big deal about it... otherwise it was just another domestic dispute.
Elvis' death: I was driving with my Mom on Ellesmere Road in Scaborough just east of Markham Road. I remeber because my Mom was a huge Elvis fan (always playing his music) and when we heard on the radio that he was dead she was very sad.
September 11th: I was in Stockholm on business and I was finished my last meeting for the day and was wandering the old town when I saw an Internet Cafe and thought I would check my email. I started to eavesdrop on the young American couple at the terminal next to mine. They were excited about something and I glanced at their screen and saw the image of the towers smoking and people fleeing in the foreground. I was sure it was an ad for a new movie or a hoax of some kind... I did a Google myself and... it wasn't either. My stomach dropped out.