Subject: You Were There
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Sep 19 24
If you ask the average person in the 75* age group where they were when Kennedy was assassinated, they could tell you where they were, what they were doing when they heard the news, even what they were wearing. Great events have great impact on us. What similar events have impacted your life so that you remember in detail where you were, what you were doing, etc. when you heard the news?
For me, some of the majors are VE-Day, in May 1945 (when I was not quite eight years old), Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945, the death of King George VI, February, 1952, Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, 1954, and those are just for starters. How about you?
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Sep 19 24
If you ask the average person in the 75* age group where they were when Kennedy was assassinated, they could tell you where they were, what they were doing when they heard the news, even what they were wearing. Great events have great impact on us. What similar events have impacted your life so that you remember in detail where you were, what you were doing, etc. when you heard the news?
For me, some of the majors are VE-Day, in May 1945 (when I was not quite eight years old), Hiroshima/Nagasaki, August 1945, the death of King George VI, February, 1952, Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile, 1954, and those are just for starters. How about you?
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HairyBear 
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I was living in Florida when the space shuttle Challenger blew up. I had just turned on the TV when it exploded, so I ran outside and could see the puff of smoke in the sky to my north. I was going to law school on 9/11 and heard on the radio just before going in that a plane had hit one of the World Trade Center towers. I remembered the story of a small, single engine plane hitting the Empire State Building way back when, so I wasn't overly concerned. It was only when I went inside and all the "kids" (not really kids because they were in their early 20s) were freaking out that I realized it was serious. I said to one of the more rational ones, "What's going on?" and he said, "A plane hit the World Trade Center," and I said, "A small one?" and he said, "No, a 747... we're at war." Reply #1. Oct 07 24, 9:40 PM |
F6FHellcat
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Uh, let's see. Challenger has been more my generation. In fact as I recall my teacher explained that we were going to be among the many schools following McAuliffe's lesson's from space. Where was I that day? Like so many school children I was in class watching the launch. Lesson's were basically cancelled for the rest of the day as we just re-watched the tragedy. The only thing we had to do was write down what we had seen and how we felt about it. I think my teacher was just struggling to find something for us to do as she was in a bit of a haze herself. I wanna say she'd said she had applied for the Teache in Space Program and was thinking that could have been her. But then there were probably a lot of teachers, both those who had applied and those who hadn't, thinking that that day. Then there's 9/11. Wanna know where I was when the first plane hit? Asleep in my bed. I was up late all the time back then, when most folks would be getting up to go to work I'd be going to bed. Not much has changed in that respect. But back then I had someone who would be up in the mornings and wanted me to get up to keep them company and would come up with all kinds of excuses. I thought that was what was happening that day. "You gotta get up, a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center!" I was so _______ off that I was gonna go downstairs and chew them out for lieing to me. Keep in mind I thought that's what was going on, just another lie to get me up to keep them company. But I came into the living room at the same time they were just beginning to discuss the South Tower being hit. I went from half asleep to wide awake and fully aware in seconds and completely forgot about my anger. Reply #2. Dec 31 24, 12:21 AM |
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