Do you remember what you were doing when?

[irishgrl]

Mt Saint Helens: I dont remember where I was or what I was doing, but I do remember the edge of your seat news we were getting, especially about the coots on the Mountain who refused to leave. It was like "oh my God! dont they care they're going to die?" I remember the stories of the cows in the pastures covered in soot, and the mud that followed when the rain started...such a mess! I still go to sites that follow the growth of the newest lava dome, wondering if we will see the birth of a new Mountain, so interesting! Btw, I think I was either late teens, or 20 something for this...it would help if an actual DATE was printed! I cant remember EVERYTHING LOL!

Challenger: I turned on the news one morning and caught the launch right at the moment before it blew up. I saw the friends and family who were in the bleachers at the launch pad looking up into the sky with awe and wonder and then you could see the exact moment when it blew, they looked confused, like "is this part of the launch?" and then when everyone figured it out, they just all crumpled...it is sooooooo tragic. My heart was heavy for days...and all they kept talking about was Crista, the schoolteacher, the first civilian to go up and how sad that this had to happen...I dont remember the exact year but I think I was in my 30's...

OJ Simpson: I remember watching the film footage of him with Al, cruising the freeways of LA, threatening to shoot himself and all the cop cars behind him....to me, that just SCREAMED guilt. then, you hear about all the stuff that was found in his golf bag and my mom told me that Nicole's breasts were sliced open, and the implants taken out, and that OJ's attitude was: "I paid for them, Im keeping them!" Such a sick sick man, and yet he went free.....

Berlin Wall: again, I dont remember what I was doing or where I was but the image of the people tearing the wall down by torchlight and all the cheering, and the feeling that there was hope finally for that part of the world, I'll never forget it...(again, a DATE would be helpful!)

Diana: This one I do remember. It was nighttime when I heard the news, I was just stunned. Stunned. I didnt stop grieving for months. Finally, I was able to access an online memory book and write something and then I felt a bit better. But I believe the world lost something very special that day...This was while I was a student at Chico State, late 90's, which would have been my early to mid 40's I believe....

9/11....THAT still gives me goosebumps. My mom called me that morning and told me that the twin towers were under attack and I sat there and saw all the chaos and noise and dust and the people jumping out of the building...and when they finally went down, I was covered in goosebumps. I get them now when I remember that scene. The swiftness of the Towers' fall and the knowledge that all the folks inside were doomed, has never ever left my mind's eye. I can see it still. And it filled me with an absoLUTE hatred for the people responsible. I am UNAPOLOGETIC about that. I realize that these are harsh words, but I mean them to be. They are all the more harsh when I say that never before had I felt such a sense of anger toward ANYONE. I remember thinking then that this event very likely signaled the beginning of the "end times" and Im NOT an apocalyptic type of person....but I felt like I could see the handwriting on the wall with this strike, as if it were the Muslim gauntlet being thrown down...
Lest we forget:
http://youtube.com/w/GROUND-LEVEL-CL...rch=WTC%20fall