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TomW

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Being a post war baby I heard this 1000 times.
What were you doing when you heard the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?
It was popular at parties and I don't remember ever hearing anybody that couldn't answer the question.
Ok What were you doing when you heard.....
Kennedy was shot
Man walked on the moon
The space shuttle exploded
9-11
Spark got a real job
 
Ok What were you doing when you heard.....
Kennedy was shot - Not even a glint in my dad's eye

Man walked on the moon - Sitting on the floor in daipers.

The space shuttle exploded - Hanging out at my folks beach house with two ngood friends from university.

9-11 - Hanging out at my beach house. Just got home from dinner down the road and happened to switch on the TV.

Spark got a real job - Dunno
 
1. Crapped my diapers
2. watched it on a black in white T.V. in the living room
3. heard about it when I jumped off my bike riding to class at MSU
4. Got the call froma friend in NYC who worked in the towers. He was late for work that day..dentist appointment. He saw the first plane hit.
5 spark got a real job...who knows..
 
Kennedy - Same as above.

Moon - Ditto.

Space Shuttle - Probably in pre-school.

9/11 - I remember this one. I was walking back from sick call in Army Basic Training, about a three weeks from graduation. When I got back, everyone was sitting around their bunks and the Drill Sergeants were glued to the TV downstairs. Most of us didn't believe our them when they told us what had happened, we thought it was a prank since they had tricked us into believing the US was going to war with China about a month earlier. They had to show us the news before anyone believed it was real.

Spark - Trick question right? :p
 
Kennedy was shot: I was probably pooping in my diaper.

Man walked on the moon: I was watching it on TV according to my Mom but I honestly don't remember.

The space shuttle exploded: Just turned on the radio in my car as I was about to drive to town.

9-11: I had just got out of the shower when my wife told me. She was talking on the phone with her Dad's maid who's daughter worked in a neighboring building.

Spark got a real job: :confused: :D
 
Lessee...Still a bit young for Pearl Harbor, I'm the quintessential "boomer" born in 46. Moon landing, I watched it on TV. Can't recall if I was home or not though; we might have had it on at school.

Kennedy- Was in class, (high school) maybe 1st period after lunch. They broadcast it over the school PA system, and I remember that a girl in my row fell to the floor sobbing. (Catholic school...Kennedy was just a couple notches down from Pope.) They suspended classes and everyone just listened to broadcasts on various radio stations.

Shuttle disaster (the first one) I was at work, and watched on one of the campus TVs. Likewise with Columbia.

9/11- I had been working midnights, and was sleeping. My wife woke me up crying, as a close friend worked adjacent to the Towers. She'd tried to call, but we know what that was like. (friend was fine, BTW)
 
Man walked on the moon -- I remember that distinctly. The whole family gathered around the old Zenith. Mom made popcorn and Koolaide which marked this as a very special occasion.


The space shuttle exploded -- I watched it happen via TV. I'd just got back from class, my roommate said, "They're launching the Shuttle in a couple of minutes. Wanta watch?" My first reaction was, "If you've seen one Space Shuttle lauch, you've seen 'em all." But, for some reason, I thought it'd be worth five minutes. I've never watched another since because part of the standard discourse is "go for throttle up." I can't take that phrase.



9-11 -- I got up that morning and went to cnn.com just to scan the morning headlines before showering and cnn.com wouldn't load. So, I tried foxnews.com and it would not load. Boy, two of the major news sited offline at the same time. What are the chances of that? cbsnews.com would not load either. So, I tried one or two other quick sites, maybe ixquick.com or something, and knew that my connection was working. Then, I tried bladeforums.com and there saw a thread entitled something like "Terrorists attack in New York." Then, I put two and two together. It's not that all the major news websites were offline at the same time, they were swamped. I tried yahoo and they had done a briliant thing: they'd ditched all their bandwidth-consuming graphics; it was just ASCII text. So, I was able to read the news that way. But, I do find it an interesting -- maybe sad -- commentary on my life that I found out about the 9/11 attacks on bladeforums.com.
 
I was 4mos.old. Lit up a stogey--------yea right
Kennedy-Was taking off from Love Field in Dallas ferrying a helo back from O&R Jacksonville,Fla.Just kept on flying and listened to the news on some LF stations in Dallas.

Walked on the moon-Watched it in my bar in AlamedaCa. Bartender did not show up.

Was at work.I am a contractor and work in the field.


Was at work and went home to watch it on TV.
 
Being a young-in...

Oklahoma City Bombing - At the mall in an electronics store

9/11 - Sitting in second periord video technology class watching TV...turned into fox news. Then went to lunch to see the towers collapse.
 
TomW said:
Being a post war baby I heard this 1000 times.
What were you doing when you heard the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor?
It was popular at parties and I don't remember ever hearing anybody that couldn't answer the question.
Ok What were you doing when you heard.....
Kennedy was shot
Man walked on the moon
The space shuttle exploded
9-11
Spark got a real job
Click to expand...
Kennedy was before I was born.

Moon. My parents had something to do and after school I had to go to the neighbors house. For some reason I remember the house more than the moon broadcast. (but I do remember thinking that the moon was important)

First shuttle... Slept in, came down stairs and my family told me about it. Same with the first Iraq war. I'd taken a nap before bowling that night and woke up to the news.

9/11. Working. A post on another set of message boards clue'd me in. We hauled out the TV that the weekend crew used to not be bored and got to see it. Still remember my 3 year old son glued to the TV... He talked about plane crashes for a while after that, like they happened every day.:(

Scond shuttle, I think I caught that on live TV.

Same with Brandi Chastain after she scored the winning goal... A buddy was over to borrow my internet connection, so I was was out channel surfing...:eek::D
 
Ok What were you doing when you heard.....

Kennedy was shot.................Waiting 4 years more to be born.

Man walked on the moon........Was only 2, don't remember.

The space shuttle exploded....Standing beside my truck filling it with gas, and listening to the launch thru the window on my truck radio.

9-11...................................Watching morning news, saw the second plane hit live on the air.

Spark got a real job...............Has that happened yet?
 
TomW said:
....Kennedy was shot
Man walked on the moon
The space shuttle exploded
9-11
Spark got a real job
Click to expand...


1) At home watching TV I was 4

2) Sleeping

3) Home from work watching the news, I had been laid off the day before.

3) Working for the County at the County Nursing Home,(we,(the mechanics) were setting up for family day), they closed every goverment building that day and sent everyone home, I'll never forget the silence in the skies that day or the screams of my friends fiance,(he was Chief of the Port Authority and one of the last bodies pulled from the basement of the towers).

How about where were you when they announced the OJ verdict?
 
The OJ verdict is good one.
I remember my mother talking about the Lindburg verdict but I doubt we have many here that remember that one
 
Kennedy shot - I was sitting in my high school chemistry class when someone in the hall shouted out that Kennedy had been shot.

Moon walk - I was driving into Montgomery, Al. Had been called in to the office to help with a big power outage. Half of the city out of power and steaming because they were missing the TV coverage.

Space Shuttle explosion - I was driving back from lunch to my office in Birmingham and heard the news on the radio.

9/11 - I had been retired for a few weeks. Turned on Fox News and they were saying that a plane had flown into one of the towers. There was a lot of on-air speculation about what might have happened. Then live on camera the second plane came flying in, leaving no doubt that it was deliberate.
 
I also went to a Catholic school. Mother superior came into the room to announce that Kennedy had been shot. They too thought he was almost equal to the Pope. She was crying her eyes out. I never thought the wicked bitch had any feelings. That alone would make you remember it for life. If that psycho nun from hell made it to heaven, trust me, you don't want to go there.
PS mwerner
You think Kennedy was a living god at your school? I went to Saint Patrick
Sisters of the Mercyless or something like that.
 
Kennedy - On the playground 3rd grade
Moon Walk - watch at home on television
Shuttle - At Police Dept dispatch office
9-11 - Getting ready to open store.
All are very distinct memories.
Interesting thread.
 
Kennedy was shot - Was in second grade in Catholic school when Mother Superior walked in and told us. We were on our kness praying the rosary for what seemed like hours. Very somber time.

Man walked on the moon - Watching it TV with the rest of the family

The space shuttle exploded - Watching it on closed circuit TV at the NASA White Sands Test Facility in NM with my coworkers. Felt like someone ripped a piece of my internal organs out of me.

9-11 - Was chairing a meeting for replacing the mainframe software at the university where I work at. The vendors were from NY and received calls over their cell phones from coworkers.
 
1) wasn't alive
2) wasn't alive
3) High School Lunchroom
4) Watched the first plane hit on intersection of West Street and Murray Street then helping carry injured people away from WTC.
 
Kennedy- Still 19 years in the future.
Armstrong- Still 13 years out.
Challenger- Preschool.
OJ- Just got back from visiting the HSs in 8th Grade, walked in class and the TV was on.
9/11- UT Library, basement, second computer from the wall. Tried to pull up the line for the UT game that weekend, couldn't. Janitor dude mentioned what had happened.
Columbia- Working, customer had TV at 1200 decibels.
 
Here is what I can remember
1. kennedy not here or thought about
2. moon landing not even here yet
3. Challenger skipping school and watching tv coverage
4. OJ college square all the females couldn't believe it!
5. 9/11 on the job and customer mentions the attack, I tell them that they
have been reading too many Tom Clancy novels
6.Columbia disaster, at a funeral eating eggs and thinking how much life was
hard.
7.GWB first election/selection 44 days of pure chaos but knowledge of the
process reached people for the first time since the 1800's
 
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