Where were you when.............?
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I was going down an escalator in a department store when it was announced over the PA that Elvis Presley had not only left the building but left this world. You could hear a pin drop in the store and shopping mall for next five or so minutes.
Was watching the 11 pm TV news when the bulletin came across that John Lennon had been shot. Seems to me it was ten minutes later when they confirmed that he had died from his wounds.
As a teen with my parents in the living room we watched live TV of Bobby Kennedy making his final victory speech and leave the stage. What seemed like moments later, talking head reporters were announcing there had been a shooting in the kitchen and someone at the microphone was asking if there was a doctor in the house.
Other incidents I remember were MLK’s asassination in the middle of the Federal Liberal convention that brought Pierre Trudeau to the leadership of the Liberal Party.
JFK’s assassination - I was home from school with a bad cold or flu.
Cuban missile crisis - my parents were visibly worried.
John Glenn’s Mercury mission into orbital space.
Most important: the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. Watched the whole game on a 26 inch black and white TV at my friend’s house in the basement.
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I remember precisely where I was when gulf war 1 and 2 started (sharper image in dadeland mall in Miami, my hotel in Shanghai)
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The one I remember is the John Lennon killing - coming down to the kitchen for breakfast and being surprised how freaked out my mum was about it. Up until that point most kids my age pretty much ignored Lennon, he was from this old time generation as far as I was concerned, but the scenes from the local TV station based in Liverpool (it's only 35 miles from where I lived) were astonishing, and it made me realise what a big deal it was for people.
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I was home sick for the JFK assassination. Third grade. Heard it on the parents’ radio in their bedroom.
@Mik said in Where were you when.............?:
I was home sick for the JFK assassination. Third grade. Heard it on the parents’ radio in their bedroom.
I was home sick the day of the Challenger explosion. Turned on the TV and it happened to be on the live feee for the launch.
I don’t really recall where I was when Michael Jackson and such died.. Just not a big enough impact on my life.
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As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.
Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.
The Brad
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I was in a shopping mall in Honolulu when I first saw the Thriller video.
Gulf War 1 - I was home watching Peter Jennings talk about the B52s dropping bombs. A friend was one of the B52 pilots.
9/11 I was at work in Reston, the lady who had the office next to mine was at a funeral in Arlington Cemetery. She called to say we were under attack because she saw the plane (she thought it was a missile) hit the Pentagon.
JFK, in school the nuns were going crazy crying.
When Apollo 10 got the 'Go for TLI' I was watching at home in Boston, same for Neil Armstrong's first step.
@LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:
F15s flying in circles
Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.
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I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Brutus murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.
@Klaus said in Where were you when.............?:
I remember exactly where I was when I heard that Brutus murdered Julius Caesar on the Ides of March.
The area looks a bit different today.
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As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.
Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.
@LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:
As for 9/11, living and working 4-5 miles away from Dulles Airport? I remember that day exceedingly well.
Spent a good hour watching F15s flying in circles, some only several hundred feet in the air? That will make an impression.
Oh I bet. Before I moved to MN I lived near Bailey's Crossroads in a tall building. Let's just say I've mapped the flight path of the one that hit the Pentagon, and it would've been about 500 feet up and about a 1/2 mile from my balcony that day. Would've been very weird to hear it, see it, and then feel it since it's within "shaking" distance of the Pentagon impact. But... I was at college.
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I was in a shopping mall in Honolulu when I first saw the Thriller video.
Gulf War 1 - I was home watching Peter Jennings talk about the B52s dropping bombs. A friend was one of the B52 pilots.
9/11 I was at work in Reston, the lady who had the office next to mine was at a funeral in Arlington Cemetery. She called to say we were under attack because she saw the plane (she thought it was a missile) hit the Pentagon.
JFK, in school the nuns were going crazy crying.
When Apollo 10 got the 'Go for TLI' I was watching at home in Boston, same for Neil Armstrong's first step.
@LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:
F15s flying in circles
Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.
@Copper said in Where were you when.............?:
Yes, I went home to watch on TV and saw a F16 flying at treetop flying over Dulles Airport. The Dulles tower was at the end of my street. At that time, there was a mysterious unknown aircraft in the vicinity. It later turned out that the plane didn't exist.
I remember the mysterious plane… I also remember “attacks” at Press buildings in DC, “Gunfire” ay the Washington Monument, and warnings about poisoned water supplies. Something that gets lost in the horror and tragedy of that day was how badly our media failed on that day.
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Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.
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Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Where were you when.............?:
Also, the Bowling Green massacre. How soon we forget. Each one of these little wooden balls represents a little wooden ball.
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And I remember where I was on 8/23/11…
@LuFins-Dad said in Where were you when.............?:
And I remember where I was on 8/23/11…
I was 4,000 feet above Harper's Ferry, instructing.
Everyone felt it except us.
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My brother was a few hundred yards from the epicenter of that Virginia earthquake. At the time he was working a civil engineering job. Anyway, he described it as a very weird feeling, mostly like a rumble of thunder or a train but under the ground passing by.
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I remember when the earthquake hit Japan that damage the Fukushima nuclear plant. A friend was on a plane that landed in Tokyo at the EXACT time the earthquake started. They ended up sitting on the plane for about six hours before they were able to get off.
I flew into Tokyo (Narita airport) the next day from BKK. Very limited flights in/out of the airport. Airport was running on emergency power. I remember how hot it was in the airport because no A/C.
