Do you remember what you were doing when?

DavidMn · #1 02-07-2006, 01:42 PM

This just popped into my little pea-brain so I thought I'd put it out there. We all talk about what we were doing when momentus events in history happened. Here's a few of mine. Feel free to add your own, or expound on the ones I present:

Mount St. Helens: I remember getting up in the morning and seeing this on the news, and not believeing what I saw. A few days later I picked up some ash off our driveway and I still have it in a jar. And I live in Minnesota.

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was home sick from school with terrible flu watching The Price Is Right when they broke into coverage to show the shutttle launching. All of a sudden there was this POOF and no one knew what happened. I was stunned.

O.J Simpson: I remember I was on a baseball trip and the group I was with was getting ready to go to a game in CLeveland when this guy with a portable tv on the bus yelled "EVERYBODY COME CHECK THIS OUT!!!" We all crowded around the tv for the infamous Bronco chase.

9/11: Getting up for work in the morning and turning on the radio and hearing all this national stuff going on, I rushed downstairs and the first thig I saw on teh TV was the south tower falling.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997. I was at work on the overnight shift when this radio djstarted taking about Fleetwood Mac getting back together. I had waited for this for 20 years. I couldnt believe it! hat an exciting moment!!

ryan8472 · #2 02-07-2006, 01:57 PM

Mount St. Helens: Wasn't born yet. But my dad was at a Grateful Dead show.

Space Shuttle Challenger: Wasn't born yet. My dad was probably waking up after a Dead show, tho.

O.J Simpson: I was camping and it was hotter than hell. We saw it on the news when we got home.

9/11: Our school went into lockdown. I had to stay in Math an extra 45 minutes.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: Mom wanted the new CD.

The Red Sox won the World Series: I was in my bed, weeping a little bit as Keith Foulke fielded a grounder.

DavidMn · #3 02-07-2006, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

Mount St. Helens: Wasn't born yet. But my dad was at a Grateful Dead show.

Space Shuttle Challenger: Wasn't born yet. My dad was probably waking up after a Dead show, tho.

O.J Simpson: I was camping and it was hotter than hell. We saw it on the news when we got home.

9/11: Our school went into lockdown. I had to stay in Math an extra 45 minutes.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: Mom wanted the new CD.

The Red Sox won the World Series: I was in my bed, weeping a little bit as Keith Foulke fielded a grounder.

God I love that last one. Brings a tear to my eye....

JazmenFlowers · #4 02-07-2006, 02:03 PM

Mount St. Helens: must be too young, have no idea what this is about

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was six or seven so I don't remember it happening.

O.J Simpson: I was at my grandmother's after school and we, like everyone else, sat, glued to the TV

9/11: I was running late for class and I saw the chair of my dept sitting in the student lounge with her head in her hands and I asked her what was wrong and she said a plane had crashed. I figured it was a cropduster so I went on upstairs to the foreign language center and EVERYONE was in there. I sat at a TV, put on headphones and cried like a baby. Went to class and really got the whole scoop - classes were cancelled.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: I was babysitting my cousin. We had just gotten back from swim practice and I saw the ad on TV. Never even knew who they were but liked Stevie's look. Told my aunt, she said we must watch it so we did and the rest is history

Janet · #5 02-07-2006, 02:07 PM

Mount St. Helens: I was about 2 or 3 when this happened. I do not remember.

Space Shuttle Challenger: I just remember talking about it so much afterwards and the magazines. It chilled me and gave me one of my first glimpses of tragedy. I was 8 and in 2nd grade.

O.J Simpson: I remember waking up and hearing the news...I remember the Bronco chase. I think this happened right when school was ending...I think it was June 1993 right? I would have been a freshman. I also remember the verdict...I was a sophomore then and we took a tv into the classroom to see what would happen. WE all knew he'd get off and he did.

9/11: I will NEVER FORGET. It was a gorgeous Tuesday morning. I woke up late...around 11. I worked at night and I worked the night before so I slept in. I was really in a good mood so I wrote a few people and just said "Hi" and that life was great. No one could believe what I was saying and told me to watch the news. I turned it on and turned it right off. I went into the shower and came out. I watched again and started to understand...as the day progressed--I saw the people I loved and went to work. I couldn't concentrate so I was delivering pizzas and just listening to Opie and Anthony in between Philly's 1060 as they talked about buildings falling down STILL. Then on my way home I listened to the Presidential Address ( I remember the streets I was driving home) and then I went to a bar just so I didn't have to be alone ( I was terrified it wasn't over...we all were) and I just sat and watched tv as it showed it over and over and over. I went home and at 3 AM I heard military planes overhead ( I live in NJ) and had nightmares for a week. That was of the saddest days ever.

Fleetwood Mac reunion: I wasn't even a fan. I was 19 and I remember seeing ads for the Dance on tv. They used the beat of the Chain. At that moment ( I have goosebumps-I was in my basement) I was like....what is that ( I asked my mom, she said they sucked LOL...so then I just had to love them)??? I never looked back. I was OBSESSED! Got to see 2 Dance shows and started the Ledge. 1997 was a good year.

ryan8472 · #6 02-07-2006, 02:10 PM

That's one thing I remember about 9/11 too. It was a beautiful, warm, clear day, and my class was pissed that we had to shut and lock the windows.

Janet · #7 02-07-2006, 02:10 PM

Lets add two more to the mix:

The fall of the Berlin Wall:

When Princess Diana died:

Janet · #8 02-07-2006, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ryan8472

That's one thing I remember about 9/11 too. It was a beautiful, warm, clear day, and my class was pissed that we had to shut and lock the windows.

It was a really hot summer and it was just starting to be fall. It was the most gorgeous day and no humidity. I just remember how blue the sky was. All those people must have thought the same thing. It should have been raining...

ryan8472 · #9 02-07-2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Janet

Lets add two more to the mix:

The fall of the Berlin Wall:

When Princess Diana died:

Berlin Wall: I was like 1 years old. I have no memory of it.

Princess Di: I was sleeping over my grandmother's house. I told my aunt when she woke up, and she was like "What? Who's that?"

DavidMn · #10 02-07-2006, 02:17 PM

I remember too the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. My stepdad was saying there could be a nuclear war. I had no idea what he was talking about thank god....

BTFLCHLD · #11 02-07-2006, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Janet

When Princess Diana died

that was a rough morning for me...it was around 4 am i believe...i had been up all night as my shelly girl was giving birth to 13 pups...i have to say it was devestating when we werent sure if she would survive, and there i was trying my hardest to get the last little one to breathe...she survived...i really believed diana would make it...and the news broke diana died. she is a special person to many...that was a very sad day indeed.

DavidMn · #12 02-07-2006, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by BTFLCHLD

that was a rough morning for me...it was around 4 am i believe...i had been up all night as my shelly girl was giving birth to 13 pups...i have to say it was devestating when we werent sure if she would survive, and there i was trying my hardest to get the last little one to breathe...she survived...i really believed diana would make it...and the news broke diana died. she is a special person to many...that was a very sad day indeed.

ANd the investigation into her death is still ongoing.

GypsySorcerer · #13 02-07-2006, 02:33 PM

Good topic, David.

Mount St. Helens: N/A

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was about five and just barely remember it. Christa McAuliffe (sp?) was the only person I knew with my name at the time.

O.J Simpson: I was in high school and watched the Bronco chase at home. Later, I remember watching the verdict come down on the TV in one of the classrooms during school. It was during lunch hour.

9/11: Senior year of college. A guy walks into my 9:30 Medieval lit class and says the World Trade Center has been "bombed." I had to sit through earth science afterward (the instructor said no need to cancel class

). I didn't get to a television until afternoon.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: I think I saw an ad on MTV. I was really excited because I thought they were done.

Berlin Wall: I think we watched some of it on TV. I was in fourth grade, I believe.

Princess Di: My mom came and woke me up about six on a Sunday morning to tell me.

catinthedark · #14 02-07-2006, 03:37 PM

Excellent topic.

Mount St. Helens: no memory of it whatsoever

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was home sick from school, too! I was watching TV, as well, and was watching the launch. It was a big thing because of Christa McCulloch (sorry if I spelled her name wrong). It happened around 11:20am if I remember correctly - I saw it blow up, and then sat there in front of the TV until I finally had to go to bed around 11pm. I must have seen it explode close to 50 times. A little traumatic for a kid. But I just had so much hope that maybe, maybe they weren't all dead.

Anyway, I went to bed, and had nightmares about it all night. I've never forgotten that.

O.J Simpson: Was working in TV, so I was in front of the screen watching. And was stunned.

9/11: Was getting ready to go to work - and the radio said they were getting reports about a small plane hitting the World Trade centre. I work in news, so I thought, I better go turn on CNN and see what's up. So I saw the second plane hit, and I said out loud to no one "oh my God oh my God oh my God." I knew it was an attack - and all I could think was "I ahve to get to work." I drove in listening to the radio coverage, watching the people around me in their cars listening. We were all about to go into a tunnel when the first tower started to fall, and a bunch of us hit the brakes so we wouldn't lose the signal. Again, a moment I will never forget.

Berlin Wall: too young - didn't really register

Diana's Death: was watching CNN on the Saturday night when they broke in and said she had been in a car accident. I was supposed to go out - but didn't. I watched steadily - and I remember realizing when there was no update for more than an hour or so that she was dead. I knew it before they announced it. I watched the coverage til about 4am, then got up and sat in front of the TV all day and all night Sunday.

One for my fellow Canadians: Pierre Trudeau's death: I was actually on the air with the 6pm newscast that I produced, and it came as an alert on the wires. I remember gasping, and then I went into my anchor's ear, and said "Trudeau has died." And we threw out the rest of our newscast, and did the next 40 minutes live, doing phone interviews, and even got a guest in live. Luckily, our anchor was a Trudeau-file. She was brilliant.

strandinthewind · #15 02-07-2006, 04:04 PM

[QUOTE=GypsySorcerer]Good topic, David.

Mount St. Helens: in my room in my childhood home watching TV.

Space Shuttle Challenger: Hanging out in the hang out place in college.

O.J Simpson: Drinking in a bar in my beloved New Orleans

9/11: at work and thinking my building was next. I then took the train home and it was SILENT in the train car.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: It was on Entertainment tonight and I thought - please let her be able to sing on key - and she did.

Berlin Wall: Studying.

Princess Di: In Michigan at a resort and going with my old roomate to a huge party and my mother calls my drunken a$$ to tell me Diana had been in a wreck - I was like "the media distorts EVERYTHING - blah blah blah" - then she said the crawl said Diana was dead. What a sad night.