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I was at my computer composing my father's eulogy when the 911 attack took place.

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PorscheBunny

Naw, he knew about a month in advance and didn't tell anyone.

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juanvaldes

yes I do. Remembered hours later of course

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zizdog69

9/11 - I was just getting into work at 3pm and a co-worker told me what happened. I was asleep up until I had to go to work so I never knew anything had happened. When I heard about it, I didn't really hit me. After looking at some pics on the internet at work, it finally reached my brain that something bad had happened. Thats when I remebered my girlfriends mom had woken us up (I lived with her and her family at the time) and told us but I was so tired I just fell back asleep. It was a rough day from then on.

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krazykemist

Columbia - Was playing Counter Strike and glanced over at CNN on the TV and saw what I though was a meteor (the black and white footage). Was AFK too long and kicked from server so continued to watch CNN.

9/11 - Was in line at the campus bookstore getting a coke and snack cake for breakfast when it came on the radio. Went to class and the teacher didnt show so I biked to a friends apartment and watched the news for the rest of the day and skipped school like most everyone else.

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oane

Sept 11. I just came after exercising and was eating stuff. Somebody shouted turn on your TV....

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columbia : driving to Austin for a week long conference, listened to the radio for 4 hours

challenger: at school, watching the TV

Columbine : after leaving school for the day

9/11 : school had the TV on listening to the news


Kennedy : living in the phillipines, eating breakfast, when my father (in the Air Force) got the call, did not see him for the next week or so, the base was on full alert.

reagan was shot i was at school

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My Dad woke my sister and me up when the Beatles were on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Dragonlich

My big events:

1) November 4, 1995: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel (big news at the time). Just got back from work at a local shop, late at night, turned on the telly for some movie, only to see the news. I was shocked, of course.
2) May 13th, 2000; huuuuge explosion in a fireworks storage facility in the Dutch city of Enschede. dozens dead, and a big hole in the middle of a residential area. I was having dinner with friends, watching some stupid music show, when the news broke. On the bright side, the show was cancelled.
3) September 11th, 2001; terror attacks in New York. I was at work, checking CNN.com. I couldn't get in. BBC was also down, Dutch newspaper sites too... Worried, I checked Fark.com, where I saw two big headlines. I started reading, and couldn't belief it. The rest of the day was *very* weird. On the way home everyone was talking about it.
4) May 6th, 2002; assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn (big news here). I was at my friend's house (other friends), again for dinner. We turned on the TV, and saw the news. It went downhill from there.

KWSN

9/11... I was late for class, and upon walking into the room, I expected to get yelled at, but no one said anything. Everyone's eyes were glued on the TV. I started to say "Wha-" but then everyone just pointed.

The whole class we just sat there and stared. No one had any clue what was going on. It was just branded onto my brain forever. It seems like it was yesterday, because the picture is so clear in my mind.

Between periods, the next period, people were saying that the towers had actually fallen down. Everyone thought they were bullshitting until they saw it themselves.

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fienna

911 - i remember we were all at work, and my friend jay goes "my girlfriend said some plane just hit the WTC - look on CNN.com"

his girlfriend worked in the meadowlands, about 4 miles from NYC on the jersey side, and her office window faced the towers... they were all looking out the windows at the smoke, wondering what happened to the pilot and such.

my mother was driving to work in hoboken, and as she came out onto observer highway (named such because as you drive towards the waterfront you have a clear view of the WTC less then a mile away) as the second plane hit. i called her and she was in tears...

i don't think i'll ever be able to forget that day - i knew people that didn't make it back...

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Challenger - was sitting with the rest of my grade school class watching the launch on tv. Don't remember the rest of the day, other than alot of teachers were crying. Unfortunatley, I was at that age where the only way I knew to handle it was to make jokes.

9-11 - My roommate woke me up before work and told me to watch the tv. I saw people running down the street with masks on their face, and blown up buildings, and told him I didn't have time to watch a movie, we had to go to work. Then he told me it was live. I looked at the tv, and the first building fell. I didn't get much done at work that day.

Columbia - didn't even know there was a shuttle in space, untill I heard it crashed. My wife and I drove from milwaukee to chicago in silence listening to what ever news I could find.

brokenlies

9/11 - i was gone on vacation to lake powell with family, we were staying on a housboat for the week, so it'd had already been 4 days (wed-sat.) when we came into town...and it was like we were in another dimension...everything was changed.

Columbia - read about it online about an hour after it happend at Fark.com

Mango

I heard about columbia blowing up in my Geology class in first year university I remeber thinking "cool". I can't remember the rest cause I am now too jaded to give a shit. 9-11 I was getting ready to go golfing at a local electrical suppliers annual golf "tournament" . I went golfing that morning then hung out at the golf club and watched the planes hit the buildings over and over and over and over untill we all agreed to turn the tv off. It was pretty cool to watch though.

Daval

9/11 - I was sitting at my desk and heard a bulletin. I was at a home office then so I went in the other room and turned on CNN - saw the second plane hit.

Columbia - was in the car.

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Cynthetiq

weird I was home sick for many events... normally i'm not one to call out sick for any reason.

Columbia blowing up- in the hospital watching a DVD and the guy in the bed next to me came back from dialysis and said he thinks the shuttle had a problem of some sort.

-Columbine massacre- I was at work watched it all unfold on the TV

-Challenger- home sick

-Regan assassination attempt- home sick

-Anwar Sadat assasination attempt- home sick

-9/11 - in Times Square and my office, kept running in and out of the building to see the people's reactions in Time Square watching the ABC/NBC Jumbotrons.

-Russian/US handshake- afterschool rushed home to watch the live footage.

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ShaniFaye

Larry Flynt shot....I was 9, out of school that day for a doctors appt, I was across the street from the courthouse when it happened

John Lennon being shot-I was 12, I heard it on the school bus

Challanger-at home, I was in 12th grade and we were home for a snow day, I was
watching it on TV

Susan Smith's kids found....at home packing to go to visit my family in the same town because my grandfather had been put in the hospital for the final time with his alzheimers

Columbine, I heard about it on talk radio on my way home from work

9/11 I was at work when they said something on the radio, I thought it was a "morning show" joke at first, then when we realized it was real, we had to finish getting payroll for 35 states ready because the planes were being grounded. I didnt get to see anything on TV until 430 that afternoon

Challenger-home, I had just woken up from one of my "airplane dreams" when I turned on the news and it had just happened.

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Interesting bump...

Berlin Wall Coming Down - Nov 9. 1989 - Was in a bar with some friends watching it on the news and realized that we were indeed watching history. Bar picked up the tab for a round of drinks.

Tianemen Square - especially when the kid stood in front of the tank - June 1989 - watched the events unfold on the news... probably in a bar.

Oklahoma City bombing - Worked for a PR firm at the time, and there were televisions every few feet so that people could watch those pointless celebrity shows that interviewed the celebrities the firm represented. The televisions were onthat morning - because of some celebrity interview - don't remember who... The news broke in with the pictures of the after effects of the explosion.

Reagen Attempted Assassanation - March 30, 1981 - I was at work at my part time job as a cashier in a supermarket. Time basically stood still for a few moments.

Challenger Explosion- Jan 28, 1986 - It was a beautful day in Massachussets and I was driving to my job with the window of my car open. The news announcment broke into a song that was playing with the news that Christa McAulliffe (she seemed to get more press than anyone else0 and the rest of the astronauts were killed in an explosion. The very next song on the was Broken Wings by Mr Mister. I walked into my job and gave thepeople the news, my boss was on the phone wiht his daughter who had watched it explode on television consoling her.

9/11 - I was in a hotel room in Sydney Australia taking a nap having just arrived 24 hours prior, I had fallen asleep with the television on - and something made me wake up - within moments of my waking up - Australain television was taking news feeds of the US Networks (it was bizarre seeing Katie Couric) and I had the news. It took me about 15 hours before I was able to get an international line, but only about 2 hours to realize that my best friend was dead.

The attack on the marine barracks in beruit where over 150 people lost their lives - sometime in 1983 - I was in college watching the news on a very small black and white television in my room. it's probably one of the first major news events (aside from the Reagen assassination) where I actively hunted out a newspaper (ah life before the iternet) and realized that there wasa big world around me.

The hijacking of the Achille Lauro in the mid 80s by Palestinian terrorists. and Leon Klinghoffer being killed and thrown overboard was in a college dorm room watching the news again, on that same small black and white television...

1985 was a rough year... there was also the hijacking of the TWA flight by Lebanese terrorists, trying to go to Beirut. One Navy diver was killed, if I remember correctly, this went on for about 2 weeks as the plane went to a bunch of different places and finally ended when Israel released a boatload of prisoners. I still vividly recall the news images of the pilot in shirtsleeves leaning out of the cockpit with a terrorist holding a gun to his head.

The release of Terry Anderson and (first name draws a blank) Sutherland in '91- after being held hostage for more than 5 years...

February 1993-- World Trade Center bombing -- I was on the 82nd floor and walked down 82 flights of stairs to evacuate, lost my shoes that day and headed over to my favorite bar across the street from the World Financial Center and drank quite a bit with some other soot covered people.

Sometime in '79... The taking of the us embassy in Iran... I was in high school at the time and we talked about it for days in a contemporary issues class

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Challenger - I was watching it in school. All I really remember from that day is that the shuttle exploded, nothing else. No reactions, nothing. I was 6.

9/11 - I had the day off work, but sadly I had to go to court. I saw the second plane hit right before I had to leave. Went to court, got home and watched CNN the whole day.

I vaguely remember the Berlin Wall coming down. I know I was young. According to Mal's date ^^there, I was 7. I think I saw it on the news that night while my folks were watching it. It was a big deal to my mom because she is German.

OKC - I believe I didn't hear about it until I got into work that night. It was a big deal here because the truck had been rented from a place in Wichita.

Vincentt

The others didn't really make a large impact on me so I don't remember them so clear.

9-11 I remember very well though.

I was going to my second class (I think 9:20 - 9:30ish) as I was walking I heard someone say something like "someone told me that a plane hit the WTC" the other guy said "hmm".
I didn't really think about it at all.

My teacher walked in saying that if we hadn't heard something horrid is happening and for us to find a TV as fast as we could. That one plane hit the WTC, and that a few min. ago a second hit the other building. That it was an attack.

We all left quickly I went to my friends dorm, the closest TV to me, and woke him up. We fliped on the TV and watched the towers fall... I spent most of the day watching the TV.

Telling my mom "They aren't going to bomb Charlotte, don't worry." also sticks out in my mind.

I feel that I can remember watching the wall come down, and my mom and grandma were telling me it was important.

I also remember watching people cry on TV about the Challenger . I didn't really understand that people were on it.

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cellophanedeity

I heard about the september eleventh attacks from some guy in the cafeteria. I think I punched him in the stomach later for what he said. "Hey, someone flew a plane into the world trade centre! Isn't it awesome?" I didn't believe him until the AVers brought the largest televisions the school had into the cafeteria and broadcasted CNN for the rest of the day. I think I cried, but I can't remember.

When man landed on the moon, my mum was seven. I hope it helps explain why I can't remember some of the other things.

ngdawg

Kennedy assassination: In elementary school. Some 8th graders came running down the halls, yelling into classrooms "the president's been shot!". Our teacher got mad, thinking that was a horrible joke-but they had been watching tv (or listening to the radio, forget which) about Kennedy's visit to Dallas when the news hit. We were rushed home. I just remember my parents crying a lot.
9/11: I was working at a middle school-some of the teacher's lounges had the tv's going and within minutes, everything changed. I will never ever forget one teacher, Michelle, running through the halls screaming, "David! My David! No!". I got help for her- her son worked at WTC. But fate had intervened-he missed the train to work. Parents rushed to school to get their kids. Three days later, our area was overcome with the stench of the burning
remains of the WTC.

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911 - Had just returned from France to home (Beirut, which Maleficient seems to recall several things about, but I was too young to remember much from these days) 2 days before. I was on the road to visit some family members, when I got a call from a friend - he told me two planes crashed in the WTC, one in the pentagon, one in the white house [I guess there was a rumour about that last one at that point]. I said "whatever". Just thought he was messing with me (he was a bit of a bullshitter at times). When I got to my destination, someone there starts talking about the "horrible events".. So then I went to the TV and couldn't believe it was real.

I had never been to the US yet at that point, but I was applying for grad school over there around that time.. I remember thinking that those plans might not work out. Thankfully, they did.

roachboy

jfk assassination: i was in my grandfather's livingroom watching an enormous black and white tv. i dont remember why it happened to be on.

oj: i watched alot of the trial that summer, exclusively on e! entertainment television because they covered like like a sporting event.

wtc: i had just walked into the penn book center when the report concerning the second plane came over the radio. i remember walking through the student union later that day, through what seemed like hundreds of students standing and sitting in groups, shellshocked, staring at huge tv screens the university had set up. the footage of the trade center collapse was already on auto-repeat. they university had established these strange groups of roaming therapists and set them into motion in that space. they wore sports jackets, like the broadcasters from the wide world of sports used to.

red sox winning the world series: i was in my local bocal, saying "i never throught i would see this" over and over to myself. between gulps of beer and the occaisonal attempt to mimic the sounds actual sports fans make when something they like seeing is happening on screen.

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maleficent

Oh good lord how could I forget...

Superbowl XXV, 1991, My beloved Giants vs the only real NY Team, the Buffalo Bills, sitting in the sun at Tampa stadium... (Paid off that trip for a year, but I was going to be there.. ) The collective stadium holding their breath as Scott Norwood of the Bills attempted a 47 yard fieldgoal in the waning seconds of the game... and -- WIDE RIGHT!!! Giants WIN!!! Final Score 20-19 - Whitney Houston, in her pre-crackhead days, rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, as a newfound patriotism found it's way to the US because the Gulf War has just begun.. Never a moment I will forget...

NY Rangers winning the Stanley Cup over Vancouver in 1994 --for the first time in 54 years... Sitting in the bar next to the Garden wiht a few friends I had a death grip on one friends arm the entire third period -- he had marks on his arm for about a week after...

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The one that sticks out in my memory the strongest is

-The Fall of the Berlin Wall - I was just beginning to be interested in world news. I remember being glued to our small black and white TV watching people dancing on the wall, and beating it with sledgehammers. I remember drilling my Mom with questions. I had my eyes opened that day. The things I'd learned in history became reality to me. Here these people had been trapped by that wall. I saw the thrill they took in it falling and it occurred to me, what could that have been like to cause this much joy now?

-Columbia blowing up- I was at home actually watching the launch. When it happened we were in shock. I remember the thought passing through my head that it was some prank. Then I thought it would be a pretty bad prank and had to be real. At that point my heart just sank. I had been so excited that a teacher was going on that flight. I had already been teaching and my heart went out to those students.

-Columbine massacre- I honestly don't remember. I was at work when it happened. Came home beat and then learned about it. I was too tired for it to really hit home at that time. It just slowly sunk in.

-Challenger- In school. We happened to be watching a educational program on television and someone came in, spoke to our teacher who promptly changed the channel for us to see replays of the accident. We were all sent home early from what I can remember.

-Man lands on the Moon - I was yet to be born 5 years later.

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9-11 - Just got back home from class and wondered what the hell all these camera crews were doing in new york looking so worried. About 5 minutes later they showed the footage and the ball dropped.

Princess Diana - Up one morning early, turned on the tv. Same as 9-11, didn't get the first bit of the report, i thought the Queen had died. Then they showed the car crash and her name. I went and told my parents right away. I don't think i really understood exactly what had happened until a few years later.

Columbia - Not too sure, i think i heard it on the evening news, but i knew then that space had become a no-go area for the general public for a long time to come.

Dunblane - Was very little at the time, also didn't understand what had happened. I knew it was very very bad though. I heard it round my grandparents house i believe.

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maleficent

That one hit us on this side of the pond too.. It was Labor Day weekend, a long holiday weekend. I was working for a major news magazine at the time and the magazine was put to bed a day early because of the press schedules. I was home on a saturday night for the first time in years... and was getting ready to go out. when I saw the news report flashin that Diana had been in a serious car accident and it didn't look good. This was gonna be big news. I called the editor and wanted to know if we were redoing the cover? Within 15 minutes, I had gotten 5 phone calls to come back in, and was on my way back to the office. By the time I reached the office, she was dead. 24 hours later the magazine was completely redone, and it was beautiful issue. Less than a week later a special, ads free issue came out. And someone actually did yell Stop the Presses... (I w as only in IT, but as sick as it sounds, the excitement in the air was almost touchable.. those are the kind of stories that journalists live for)

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9/11 - I was at my co-op job, and I was actually the first one in my office to start spreading the news.

Sitting at my cubicle, my mom called me and told me to go to CNN.com. At that time, they had said it was just a Cesna (sp?) that hit the towers. I told someone about it, and they kept checking the site and eventually that changed to a passenger plane.

A little while later they rolled some TV's into the lobby so we could watch tv then the 2nd plane hit. It was strange that day, exciting, fast paced, but deeply sad and lost.

Either way, a very memorable day indeed.

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Hi coffee2go4me,
I was in my 9th grade Social Studies class.
Principal told the school on the PA system that JFK had just been shot.

Squishor

I have a pretty amazing story about the JFK assassination - it's my first memory. For years growing up I had this vague memory of being really young, sitting in a car with my mother driving and listening to the radio. I can kind of picture the road, a fairly bleak place with fields on both sides. It was grey and overcast. The radio was playing music, which I enjoyed, and then suddenly they cut off the music and a male announcer's voice came on, which I didn't enjoy. I couldn't understand anything he was saying but then all of a sudden my mom pulled over on the shoulder, stopped the car and started crying. I was mad because the nasty man on the radio had made my mother cry. Many years later, sometime in my late 20s, I asked my mom what this memory could have been and described it to her. She was absolutely amazed and told me that's what happened when JFK was shot. The thing is, I was born in July 1963, and JFK was shot in November - I was only 4 months old!

As for the others, I remember when the Challenger went down, I was at a local coffee bar getting coffee. I really didn't care and couldn't understand why people were getting so upset over it. I was at the same coffee bar getting coffee on 9/11, and this time I cared a lot, although the enormity of it took a few minutes to sink in. I went home and woke up my boyfriend, and we tried to get the news on our tv which is actually just a DVD player because we have no cable and no antenna. Then I had to drive down to Monterey to interview a dishwasher with a bad back, while planes were still missing - I kept peering up through the windshield to see if there were any stray jets coming down.

For the OJ chase, I was in our local county jail reading encyclopedias in the library when a bunch of people and the guard on duty came rushing in to watch the tv. It occurred to me that it would be the perfect time to escape (it was a minimum-security facility) but I held onto my self-control and didn't.

When the gulf war started I was deep inside the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico with my girlfriend - I got in the elevator to come back up and the elevator attendant told us about it. I thought maybe we should just stay down there, since it'd be a pretty good bomb shelter. We thought it was World War III and we drove back to Calfornia nonstop, taking turns sleeping in the back of my van.

I think I was in 1st grade for the moon landing. I remember not getting a very good view of the tv because most of the other kids were bigger than me (story of my life).

The other one I remember was when John lennon was killed. I was in the kitchen of my mom's house playing Othello with my boyfriend, and when we heard the news I was just in such disbelief that such a thing could possibly happen. Growing up the Beatles were like gods to me, I was just stunned.

Elphaba

Cuban Missile Crisis: Daily duck and cover drills in the family basement.

JFK Assassination: Junior High classroom.

Grasshopper Green

Challenger - I was in my third grade classroom when the principal announced it over the loudspeakers. We didn't have TV's in the classroom, so the teacher told us to read while she went out of the room.

Berlin Wall - I was in jr high, don't remember what grade...but I distinctly remember watching the news as it happened, and seeing people tear down pieces of it, and seeing people driving through the holes in their cars and stopping for TV reporters with tears of joy on their faces.

Start of Gulf War - I was driving home from a nearby city with my mom when news of the first American missiles being launched came on...I was scared at the thought of a war.

Waco - I was in my tenth grade health class and my teacher, who was as excitable as a three toed sloth, came running in wild eyed yelling...Waco's on fire! Waco's on fire! He turned the TV on and we didn't do any work the rest of the period.

I don't really remember where I was for Columbine, Columbia, or the first WTC attacks.

Of course I remember 9/11. I was five months pregnant at the time, and my son kicked like crazy that day, I guess do to stress. My husband had just flown home the night before (thankfully, I realized this later in the day) from a months military training in California. I was returning from taking him to work when the news hit on the radio of the first plane hitting; minutes later the news hit of the second plane. I had to take my mom to the dentist that day so I didn't get to actually see any footage until the afternoon when the towers had already fallen; I heard everything on the radio. I had planned on going to the mall nearby while my mom was at the dentist; I still went since I had to kill the time during her appointment. There was nobody in that mall; as I wandered up and down I looked into the stores and every sales associate was in an empty store and on the phone. I stood at the Clinique counter in a department store and listened to the radio with the saleswoman.

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9/11 - I received a phone call at about 1:30am, didn't get to the phone in time but there was a message from a friend that sounded freaky.. asking me to pick up. I was certain that she was in the middle of a personal seige, someone had broken in and she was hiding.. calling for help (ok, stupid she would have called the police, not me.. but that was the urgency I heard..) so, worried I headed over to her house. When she opened the door, she showed me the news.. she was watching CNN(?). I sat and just looked in horror (this was before the collapse). I was there just after the second plane.. it was amazing at how surreal it seemed.. I had to keep reminding myself that 'this was real' and it was huge.. I was as horrified as I was glued. I didn't think it could get any worse. I shed tears when the towers collapsed.

Diana's death had a big impact on me, but nothing I can imagine will have a bigger impact than 9/11... I hope to never witness anything that compares let alone something bigger!

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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.

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.

Just got home from school (grade 8?) and saw the footage all over the TV.

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.

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StanT

One of my earlier memories is JFK getting shot. I remember my teachers crying and getting sent home for the day.

I was in Coer de Alene, Idaho with 30,000 Boy Scouts when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon.

I was 4 hours away from a business trip to LA, on 9/11. I told my boss he didn't pay me enough to get on a plane today (before flights got cancelled).

Tophat665

Frank Zappa Died - I was delivering a pizza

Now, bearing in mind that no one knew what was going on:
9/11 - I was sitting at my desk actually getting work done (having been struggling to get motivated) whan Gooch popped her head into my office and said, "Sombody just flew a plane into the world trade center." I walked over to see what was going on-there was a TV going- saw it happen, and said, "Jesus, they have got to be more careful how they test SDI."

Among my very first memories are watching on TV the helicopters taking people off the roof of the embassy in Saigon and Nixon resigning.

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rhaevyn

Columbine--I had just gotten home from school and turned the TV on.

9/11--French class, my principal announced it over the PA system, and our teacher turned the TV on so we could watch the news.

Those are the only ones I can remember.

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