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Where were you when....?
a) JFK was shot
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
c) John Lennon was shot
d) the Berlin Wall fell
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
A) Not born yet!
B) Watching with my parents. As the first steps were taken on the Moon's surface, I decided to copycat the astronaut and took my first steps as well! All of my parents friends who were there thought that was cool as hell!
C) I was in 7th Grade. It didn't mean much to me at the time, since I wasn't a huge Beatles fan, nor even really aware of them.
D) I was in college at the University of Buffalo. I don't remember much beyond that, except that all of my friends and I were wondering what would happen next, and if all hell would break loose because of it.
E) I was sitting at my desk at work. I was trying to research something, and the Internet was DAMN slow, so I went onto the news sites to see if there was a major Internet outage. That's when I discovered that the tower had been hit. I told everyone in the office, and we sat around while I tried to glean info from the net and the local radio. At that point, we weren't sure if we were under military attack or terrorist.
After about 30 minutes, my boss says, "OK - we all have things to do, nothing much to learn right now". I couldn't believe it, because we had no clue as to what happened, how many people died, who was attacking us, etc. All I could think of was that, when Kennedy was shot, my boss probably stayed glued to the radio.
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