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Old 05-09-2003, 06:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Where were you when.....?

Answer as many as you remember.

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) I was only 3 and I have no memory of it.
B) Watching it on TV at home with my parents and siblings.
C) Came in from a date and turned on Monday Night Football just in time to hear Howard Cosell make the announcement.
D) No memory of the actual moment I heard.
E) Driving to work. The radio interrupted for a special report at the same time that my cell phone started ringing like crazy.
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Old 05-09-2003, 06:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
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a) a sparkle in my father's eye
b) just a baby
c) watching Return of the Pink Panther while mom and dad played Mah jong...
d) working and watching the TV
e) walking to work in Times Square when first plane hit. Was at my desk watching TV seeing the 2nd plane hit.
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Old 05-09-2003, 07:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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a) JFK was shot. I thought he died in a plane crash
b) Something landed on the moon
c) John Lennon? I don't listen to country music


OK enough with the stupid trying to be funny answers.
a) My parents had not even begun dating
b) Still year away from being born
c) I have no recollection of anything in the year 1980
d) Not sure where I was but I remember seeing it on TV many many times. An interesting note, I remember where I was when I watched the Pink Floyd The Wall concert that took place in Germany right after the reunification. I watched it live from Israel.
e) I was at work when I first heard that it happened. I was actually in my car parking when it happened.
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Old 05-09-2003, 07:10 AM   #4 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot - in a Freshman English class.

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - Working for a police department in a suburb of Oklahoma City

c) John Lennon was shot - Teaching School in Kansas

d) the Berlin Wall fell - Still teaching school in Kansas

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - At my store waiting for the beer trucks to show up

It may seen strange to me but the 9-11 attacks are the only one of these incidents that really seem to matter to me. I am several hundred miles away from being a JFK fan - He was a piss-poor excuse for a president that has become much larger than life because he was assassinated - History would not have been kind to this man had he finished out his presidency.

The moon landing was a great accomplishment in proving that it could be done - Has it changed anything? Have we benefitted in any way from this? No.

John Lennon - never did care for the Beatles and he was married to a total freak.

The Berlin Wall finally coming down was the finale to a lot of change. It is symbolic of the fall of communism and beginnining of the end of the Cold War. It is mainly symbolic - like the statue of Saddam coming down.

The 9-11 attack hit me rigfht square in the gut. It is probably the most memorable event in my memory. I will never forget - or forgive.
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Old 05-09-2003, 07:22 AM   #5 (permalink)
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A) JFK - I was still sucking on my mom's tits.
B) Moon landing - My dad told me to get out of the pool and come watch the tv.
C) John Lennon - Driving back from a mall with some friends and heard it on the raidio....should have been Ringo!
D) Berlin Wall - Wasn't a big deal to me, so I don't remember.
E) 9/11 - Watched for a bit on the news and went to work.
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Old 05-09-2003, 07:29 AM   #6 (permalink)
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A) JFK - I was still sucking on my mom's tits.
B) Moon landing - My dad told me to get out of the pool and come watch the tv.
C) John Lennon - Driving back from a mall with some friends and heard it on the raidio....should have been Ringo!
D) Berlin Wall - Wasn't a big deal to me, so I don't remember.
E) 9/11 - Watched for a bit on the news and went to work.

Some of these answers raise some interesting points. I have a crystal clear memory of watching Robert Kennedy's assasination live on TV one afternoon, but it didn't happen that way; it was not live, and it was at night.

I wonder how many other things get twisted that way in our memories. In "Mr. Holland's Opus," he drives home from work in the middle of the day when Lennon gets shot - which actually happened near midnight. Weird.

It's because of that, I'm not sure of the time of day when I watched the moon landing, and whether or not I saw it live.
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Old 05-09-2003, 07:30 AM   #7 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot - not born
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - WAY not born
c) John Lennon was shot - not born
d) the Berlin Wall fell - in school.....don't remember exactly what I was doing....probably trying to play doctor with a hotty in 2nd grade
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - At my apartment, just getting ready to head to my Windows 2000 class in college....we went home way early that day
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Old 05-09-2003, 08:49 AM   #8 (permalink)
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a) Wasn't born yet.
b) Wasn't born yet.
c) Wasn't born yet.
d) Was about 8 and saw it on tv.
e) Was getting ready for class when my aunt called me and told me to turn on the tv. Spent the whole day at school staring out the window looking at the Sears Tower (my mom works on the 80th floor).
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Old 05-09-2003, 09:41 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Some of these answers raise some interesting points. I have a crystal clear memory of watching Robert Kennedy's assasination live on TV one afternoon, but it didn't happen that way; it was not live, and it was at night.

I wonder how many other things get twisted that way in our memories. In "Mr. Holland's Opus," he drives home from work in the middle of the day when Lennon gets shot - which actually happened near midnight. Weird.
Funny thing is, on September 11, I remember writing an essay late at night and getting a call from my father who told me to turn on the TV. That's right, 11pm at night and my memory isn't faulty...you figure it out.

Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep, and went outside at 3am to see great stormclouds on the horizon.

This thread is going to date a few people.

a) Wasn't born yet.
b) Wasn't born yet.
c) A few weeks old.
d) Don't remember exactly but a friend's parents had a chunk of the wall encased in lucite. Pretty interesting kinda souvenir
e) As written above.

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Old 05-09-2003, 02:37 PM   #10 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot
Waiting to be born.... about 2 years later!

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
Watching it on television in my living room. I was about 4 and the clearest thing I remember about it was my father feelings that this was REALLY important. It started a long love of space, and space travel. I still try to tune in whenever there's a launching (and lets hope we get back to it soon, and safely)

c) John Lennon was shot
Sleeping. I had fallen asleep with the radio on and when I woke up I actually thought I'd dreamt it. Wasn't too long before the DJ set me right.

d) the Berlin Wall fell
Working. Watched the clips when I got home.

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
Working. I had just gotten into work, turned on the radio and within about 2 minutes the host (I primarily listen to NPR) broke from format to announce what had just happened. They were calling it an accident at that point, but just a few minutes later, with the second hit, we all knew what was up.
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Old 05-09-2003, 02:44 PM   #11 (permalink)
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a)-c) I wasn't born yet

d) I remember seeing it on TV when my mom was making dinner.

e) I was doing some physical chemistry homework at the school library when I decided to walk over to the student union and get a snack to eat. I saw all of the students huddles over by the TVs and wondered what was going on. I watched for myself and ended up not even turning the homework assignment.
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Old 05-09-2003, 03:11 PM   #12 (permalink)
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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
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a and b -Not born
c- In my mom's belly waiting to be born
d- I don't remember if I watched it live but I remember my dad and I watching it fall on tv.
e- At home sleeping..Was actually on vacation from work..
My sister came over and woke us up and told us to turn on the tv..I will never forget. I just sat there for a long time with my hand over my mouth in disbelief. Later that night I went outside to view a jetless sky..very strange..
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Old 05-09-2003, 03:14 PM   #13 (permalink)
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i can only remember 911, i was on my way to school.

good morning america was on, and they had footage of this, but they did not know what happened.

they thought it was a fire or something.
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Old 05-09-2003, 03:55 PM   #14 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot
In my Sophomore English class in High School.

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
I watched it on TV and cheered when they announced that "The Eagle has landed".

c) John Lennon was shot
I actually didn't hear about until I read my morning paper the next day. Then I turned on the TV news.

d) the Berlin Wall fell
I came home from work and watched it on the evening news. I was totally fascinated because I had a teacher in High School who worked for the CIA in the Berlin. He had plenty of stories to tell about the East and West relations, or lack thereof.

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
I was at home getting ready for work. The TV news interrupted their broadcast to get the network feed about an "accident" in NY. Then I watched the second plane hit.

The Kennedy assassination, the Moon Landing and the 9/11 attacks had the greatest impacts on me. Of those, I watched two on live on TV.
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Old 05-09-2003, 05:03 PM   #15 (permalink)
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e) At work, a firedrill started coincidentally about 10 minutes after the first plane hit!
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Old 05-10-2003, 11:54 AM   #16 (permalink)
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a) NA
b) NA
c) Not old enough to understand.
d) Not old enough to be interested but saw it on telly, and was pissed 'cause there was no A-Team or whatever.
e) At work, got ready for DR, company I work for is a major player in the FS sector and our NY HQ was evac'd and closed due to damage. - As an aside a mail went out to everyone to tell us to stop watching it on Cisco IPTV 'cause it was using up all the networks bandwith....
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Old 05-10-2003, 12:20 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: Where were you when.....?

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Answer as many as you remember.

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
i wasn't born for a&b.

c) i think i was home watching cartoons. i remember my mom being very upset.

d) 9th grade, i think.

e) in the lobby of my office bldg, where they have a TV, just coming in to work. i saw the second plane hit, and we knew then that it was not an accident. we were supposed to downtown to go to downtown DC for a satellite trade show, but the city was locked down and obviously it was all cancelled. we have an air traffic control display of the US where i work and it's normally speckled with white dots, and it was very spooky to see all of them disappear when the planes were grounded. the entire company was gathered around the big-screen TV on our floor for the rest of the day, and we all went home early.
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Old 05-10-2003, 12:37 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Re: Where were you when.....?

a) JFK was shot
N/A

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
N/A

c) John Lennon was shot
One of those things I don't remember

d) the Berlin Wall fell
Another of those things I don't remember

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
At work in the school's library. We had the TV on from the very beginning (we always watched the news first thing in the morning). As we were watching the live news feed, we all saw the second plane. At first we didn't know what we were seeing as we were all in disbelief. Being so close to the events, we had plenty of students with parents who worked in NYC, so you can imagine the thoughts going through their minds.


I think I'd like to add to this list of "where were you when..."

f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured?
g) the Gulf War started?
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured?
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured?


f) at work in the bank listening to the radio.
g) at home watching TV with my boyfriend at the time. I remember being worried about him being drafted.. damn I wish they had reinstated the draft back then
h) home from school, sick. Watched the launch on TV like I knew my classmates were doing.
i) Just waking up, turned on the TV and it was all over the news.
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Old 05-10-2003, 12:42 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Re: Where were you when.....?

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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) Age 7, playing in the back yard.
b) In a camper in Yellowstone in a driving thunderstorm watching on a tiny b&w TV.
c) Driving with my wife the next morning - heard it on the radio.
d) Don't remember exactly.
e) At work. Glued to the TV there most of the day.
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Old 05-10-2003, 03:34 PM   #20 (permalink)
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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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Old 05-10-2003, 06:48 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Where were you when....?

a) JFK was shot
Can't remember the precise moment- I was just turning four years old- but I remember feeling sad for Caroline & John Jr. when I saw them in the funeral procession.

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
Watched it with the extended family, gathered round a little black & white TV at our cottage in Canada, on the only channel that we could pick up. I remember being really excited that I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime to view the coverage.

c) John Lennon was shot
This was really painful - still is. I was 20 yrs old and a beach bum/student in southern CA, pulling a shift as an ice cream jockey at Haagen Daaz. We had the tunes playing, when at about 11 am they announced that Lennon had been shot dead the night before. It felt like a punch in the gut- I went through the rest of my shift like a robot. When I finished work, I fell apart- the tears wouldn't stop. I still can't listen to the Lennon version of *Imagine.* I cry every time.

d) the Berlin Wall fell
I'm bit chagrined to not recall where I was.

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
Just waking up- my husband called me from work as he listened to reports as the attacks were occuring. He said a plane had just flown into the WTC. I turned the TV on just in time to see the second plane hit. That image was seared into my brain the first time I saw it. I absolutely did not need to see it played
repeatedly and eventually tore myself away from the tube sometime that evening,

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Old 05-10-2003, 07:01 PM   #22 (permalink)
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a) Hadn't been born yet
b) Hadn't been born yet
c) Hadn't been born yet
d) Dont remember...
e) School.
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Old 05-10-2003, 08:43 PM   #23 (permalink)
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I think I'd like to add to this list of "where were you when..."

f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured?
g) the Gulf War started?
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured?
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured?
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Old 05-10-2003, 08:54 PM   #24 (permalink)
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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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Old 05-10-2003, 09:16 PM   #25 (permalink)
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1, Wasnt around yet.
2, Nope, still not of this earth
3, Was only 9, still to far back to remember
4, Senior year in H.S
5, Inside the heating ducts at work running CAT5 wiring back to our warehouse.
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Old 05-13-2003, 10:57 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Answer as many as you remember.

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) My mom had not even hit puberty then
B) see above
C) Nope still not born yet
D) In first grade probably learning how to read
E) Driving on the highway, after eating breakfast after dropping off John Wenkus to fly home to Cali ((R.I.P., he was on AA Flight 11).
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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

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A) Not born yet

B) Not born yet

C) I was 3 and had not yet decided to like the Beatles. Not sure WHERE I was.

D) I was in junior high school. I remember talking a LOT about it in many of my classes, even some that had no bearing on it (Honors Math even). I was blessed with teachers that often though on their own and discussed major current events, even back in elementary school.

E) I was home, sleeping in after having pulled a midnight shift the night before. My gf at the time called and told me to turn on CNN immediately. I walked out, turned it on and sat on my phone with her in silence watching. About 5 minutes later the second plane hit. It was a completely surreal day...
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Old 07-03-2006, 11:08 AM   #29 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot
Not born

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon
not quite 5 and really don't remember it

c) John Lennon was shot
It was the day before my 16th birthday... and remember it vividly - blew off school the next day to take the train into nyc..

d) the Berlin Wall fell
i remember seeing it on the news but i really dont have a clear memory of it

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred
sitting in a hotel room in sydney australia desperately, but unsuccessfully trying to get an international line... having just arrived that day... (24 hours prior I was on the flight that went down in pennsylvania - and had it not been for a customer insisting i be there a day early - i should have been on that flight)

f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured?
I was on the 82nd floor of that building and lost a perfectly good pair of shoes hiking down the stairs... went to the bar across the street for many many hours afterwards

g) the Gulf War started?
Somewhere in nyc

h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured?
In my car, at the interection of routes 23 and 46 in nj - trying to merge... when the radio broke in with the announcement.. .and the very next song that was played was broken wings by mister mister/

i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured?
dont recall
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a) JFK was shot Not born

b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon I was just a little past my first birthday... I have norecollection.

c) John Lennon was shot I don't remember where I was, but I remember thinking, "so what"? Some hippie was shot. I later came to appreciate who he was but I still can't deify him as some do.

d) the Berlin Wall fell I was in University. Don't remember where I

e) the 9/11 attacks occurred I was walking the streets of Stockholm, oblivious to the attacks. I didn't find out until I went to a cafe to check my email and saw someone looking at the image of the falling towers on the computer next to mine.

f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured? No idea.


g) the Gulf War started? In the hospital getting my appendix removed. I went under with the threat of war and woke up with the bombs dropping

h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured? At school. Came home to see it all over the news.

i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured? In my car on the way to Best Buy. Saw the disintigration over and over on a wall of TVs in the store.
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Old 07-03-2006, 11:26 AM   #31 (permalink)
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f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured?

g) the Gulf War started?

h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured?

i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured?


F) I honestly don't recall

G) The first one? In Junior High wondering why these 7th and 8th graders felt it useful to stage a sit-out. The second one? I was in Army Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. That was wild!!!

H) I was in elementary school and several classrooms had been combined to watch the launch on TV since we'd been doing space studies for our school-wide project (what are those things called again?). When it happen my teacher made a sickening suprised sound and nobody looked away from the TV for what felt like hours. Eventually one of the teachers turned it off.

I) I don't remember. In fact, until I saw this addition, I'd forgotten that it had even happened. Recent "tragic" stuff doesn't catch my attention so much anymore. It just happens too often. *sigh*
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Old 07-03-2006, 11:27 AM   #32 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot - Not born yet
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - Still not born yet
c) John Lennon was shot - Getting closer to being conceived...
d) the Berlin Wall fell - I was 2, so I have no earthly idea where I was at the time
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - Walking into my first period class after marching band
f) First attack on the world trade center - Too young to remember
g) the gulf war started? I was 3-4 at the time, so no where that I remember
h) the US Space shuttle Challenger accident occured? About 9 months from being conceived...
i) The US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured - It actually woke up me up. When I knew what it was I was in a hotel room watching it on TV.

How about when:
j) The US attacked Afghanistan - Watching TV, strangely enough. I was watching some guy giving a run down of how the attack would probably occur when we invaded, and in the middle of it they cut the guy off to announce that we had started bombing the Taliban
k)The US invaded Iraq the second time - Don't remember on that one. I remember watching news footage in class the next day, though. And I remember watching Bush give his 48 hours speech before it happened.
l) Saddam Hussein was caught - My mom woke me up before they left for church.
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Old 07-03-2006, 12:48 PM   #33 (permalink)
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a) JFK was shot - Not born. As a matter of fact my mom was still a few months away from being born.
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - Still not born.
c) John Lennon was shot - Nope.
d) the Berlin Wall fell - Only a few years old, I don't remember it.
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - I woke up to get ready for school and my mom told me that someone had crashed a plane into the World Trade Center.
f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured? - I was probably in the first or second grade, but I don't remember it.
g) the Gulf War started? - I have vague memories of hearing about it on the news.
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured? - A couple of months away from being born.
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured? - I was at an Academic Decathlon competition. It was actually hours after the accident occured, when we were getting ready to receive our medals, that one of the organizers came in and told us what had happened.
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Old 07-03-2006, 12:56 PM   #34 (permalink)
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a) i was somewhere on route 20 on my way to albany from ithaca to visit the love of my life (at the time). i caught a ride outside of cornell from a guy who was on his way to russell sage to see his sweetie. we could have stayed where we were for another week because every college campus in the us, i believe, was closed until after thanksgiving...

b) i was sitting in the bar of the shaw afb nco club in south carolina visiting with my ex-bunkmate from viet nam. i was on my way to florida to begin college (again) and ended up spending the weekend in sumter...

c) i was working in baltimore at the time and had just gone to sleep before howie the shill made the announcement on mnf...

d) i honestly don't remember where i was...

e) i had just returned the day before from a week's vacation in south padre island, tx. my wife dropped me at the airport in harlingen and continued on to laredo on business. i was watching gma when the report of the first attack came in, saw the second plane hit live, then called auntphil in laredo. she said the border crossing, which was just two blocks from her hotel, was backed up for miles. she ended up driving to houston and waiting for almost a week before she could get a flight back to upstate ny...
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a) JFK was shot - Not born.
b) Apollo 11 landed on the moon - Not born.
c) John Lennon was shot - Not born
d) the Berlin Wall fell - I think i remember it, sitting in my grandparents living room
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - Came home from school, on TV, messed up shit.
f) the first attack on the World Trade Center occured? - No memories
g) the Gulf War started? - No memories
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger accident occured? - Not born
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia accident occured? - Watching the news in my living room, one of my defining thoughts was 'well, i hope the russians can get the ISS guys home'

Heres a new one

J) The 7/7 attacks on London? - Got up in the morning, came downstairs and my dad (who thanks to being ill that day did not go into london, and did not get on one of the trains that was bombed) told me something had happened.
I remember sitting on the sofa arm for hours watching the scenes unfold. Strangly enough, i was watching a documentary with a friend of mind who is a paramedic in london, and he was naming half the paramedics in all the stills, and explaining what happened to loads of the injured. It was comforting to know that all the images that stick in my mind are of people who survived.
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Old 07-03-2006, 02:24 PM   #36 (permalink)
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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

These were all extremely memorable moments for me.

a) I was at Bozo's Circus in Chicago, I was 6 yrs. old and all I remember was seeing it on the WGN monitors.

b) I was with my brother at my grandmothers house in Florida, we were so excited because we were on the beach somewhere near and watched it blast off. My grandmother's neighbor worked at NASA on the decontaimination team that cleaned up after the launch.

c) Working at an appliance & tv store and saw it on the news and was absolutely stunned! How could anyone kill someone that was such an advocate for peace?

d) Owned an appliance & tv store and saw it on the news.

e) Same as d. Watched in horror!

f-i) Same above,, there's nothing like seeing these immensly important events on a wall of tv's!
There's nothing like seeing these immensely important events on a wall of tv's!
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Old 07-03-2006, 03:06 PM   #37 (permalink)
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a) 9/22/63 was a little less than 20 years before I was born, had I been alive, I would have been devistated. JFK was a very interesting man.
b) July 20, 1969, still not born yet. I must say, this is still one of my proudest acheivments as an American. It's facinating that we were able to do the unthinkable and have a human being on a body in space.
c) 12/8/1980, well getting closer, but still not born yet. Lennon is one of my favorite figures in the modern anti-war movement. Truely, he was a great man.
d) I watched over and over the Berlin Wall falling with my grandfather. He told me stories about what the implications of the wall were and the fact that it was finalyl being torn down had atrue and echoing meaning accross time.
e) I was getting ready for school when I saw the second strike inturrupt whatever I was watching on TV. I watched for about an hour, and then went to school. Everyone was talking about it, and people were crying and such. I volunteered to speak over the intercom system to the school (the student elected president was home 'sick', probably afraid of his duties). I opnly spoke for about 15 minutes, but I think I got my point across: "today is about healing".
f) I was on vacation with my vamily in Monterey, I think.
g) I was in school, but I had to have the situation explained to me a few times. I still don't really get it.
h) Home. Too young to remember, though I've read about it.
i) Home.
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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) (not born yet)
c) (not born yet)
d) I was six, and have no recollection of the event
e) I was a freshman at DePaul University in Chicago. I was sleeping in that day, since I didn't have an early class, and woke up when one of my roommate's friends burst in, screaming, "Someone blew up New York!!!!" I ran to the lounge, where I found several other people watching the TV. I arrived just in time to see the second tower fall, and I spent the rest of the day donating blood and walking around Lincoln Park, as all classes were cancelled.
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A-D) wasnt born or too young
e) the 9/11 attacks occurred - I had alread had news radio on at work. I still remember all the wrong info that came out right away. At first they said that a sesna(SP?) hit the building. After the second plane hit I went out to have a smoke. Looking in the sky and wondering if the city that I worked in (Wilmington, DE) was next, almost all the major banks are HQed here.
f) WTC I- Too Young
g) Gulf War One- Glued to the TV in my family room. I have those missles shooting aross the sky through night vision burned into my head.
h) the US Space Shuttle Challenger- We watched it Live in my 3rd grade class. Everyone cried. Im pretty sure we went home early.
i) the US Space Shuttle Columbia- At work listening to news radio.
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Old 07-03-2006, 06:25 PM   #40 (permalink)
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I'm one of the young 'uns. I was alive for the Berlin wall, but too young to remember or care. As to the WTC attacks, I know that one. It was my eighteenth birthday and I was skiving off school. I woke up around 10:00, came downstairs and mum had it on in the living room. I watched the events from then on as they unfolded.
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