Do you remember what you were doing when?

[gldstwmn]

Mount St. Helens

Can't remember


Space Shuttle Challenger

I was getting ready for work when my boyfriend called me and told me the space shuttle had blown up. A few nights before when we were watching the news, he blurted "That thing's going to blow up."

O.J Simpson
The chase? I was watching it on a big screen tv in a bar that I worked in at the time.

The Fleetwood Mac reunion in 1997

Sitting glued to my chair watching MTV and then almost falling off at the end of Silver Springs.

9/11

I was getting dressed for work and getting ready to take daughter to school. I think Diane Sawyer was on the tv and by the images and the first few words I heard, I knew something was very wrong. My daughter burst into tears.

[Miss Vicky]

Mount St. Helens: (May 18, 1980) I wasn't even conceived until three months after this happened!

Space Shuttle Challenger: (January 25, 1986) I would have been about four and half... Since 1/25 is my dad's birthday, we were probably doing something to celebrate.

O.J Simpson: Are we talking low-speed chase or acquittal? The murders happened in the summer of 1994, which was between my 8th and 9th grade years, so I was probably enjoying my few days of freedom before starting high school. The verdict was announced during my Beginning Drafting class in 9th grade (we listened on the radio). All I remember is thinking that the man was guilty as sin and not wanting to say anything because the rest of my classmates were celebrating the acquittal.

9/11: I vaguely remember being in the middle of trying to get ready for work and seeing it on television with the sound turned off. I didn't really know what was going on as I was running late that morning but as the day went on, it was the main topic of dicussion from both coworkers and clients. I felt a weird combination of both shock and relief about the whole situation. I was, of course, shocked that such a terrible thing had happened in one of our nation's biggest cities but also relieved that I did not know any of the victims and was spared any personal grief.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: I remember seeing a half-page article (I think it was called "Checking in with Fleetwood Mac") in Rolling Stone Magazine that talked about the upcoming reunion. At the time I still didn't really know anything about the band and Stevie was still little more than "that one blonde chick that sang with Tom Petty" ("Lindsey Buckingham? Who is she?") but I was excited about it because I had picked up a copy of "Bella Donna" maybe a year or two before that and had loved it.

[elie]

9/11: It was like 4 p.m. in Greece and I was cleaning my appartment when my boyfriend called to tell me to turn on the tv because a plane had just crushed into the WTC. I remember that I was so stunned that at first I could not really believe it was actually happening, so I think I went on cleaning (with the TV on) until I realised that it was true and then I watched the news the whole day.

Berlin Wall: I was about 13 and I was watching it on the news with my parents. There is no single event (political) that has ever had such an impact on me. I visited Berlin (at last!) when I was 25 ang I got hundreds of pictures of what is remained of it and also a little piece of the wall. Still, whenever I watch a documentary about the fall, I cry every single time. I am totally in love with this city. I wish I had been there, along with the people who tore it down.

Princess Diana: I was at home, I woke up and my aunt who was staying with us told me what happened,as I was making myself some coffee. I remember that I stayed home watching the news the whole day.

[Wild_Heart03]

What a great topic, David. It's always interesting to realize what was happening for you during these pivotal times.

Mount St. Helens: I didn't even exist yet. My mom told me about how she remembered watching the news about it though.

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was barely a year old, so no memory of that either.

O.J Simpson: I was still relatively young (about 8 or 9) when the "Bronco chase" and all of that happened, so I didn't know what was happening until my parents started watching the trials. I remember the day they announced the verdict, I was in the library at school and the librarian had the TV on. She was relatively shocked that he was acquitted, although I had the feeling he would be.

9/11: Being as I live in the Mountain time zone, I was barely getting up for school by the time the first tower had been hit. I was still kind of asleep when my mom came in to wake me up, and the first thing she said to me was "A plane just hit the World Trade Center." I was awake like THAT, and I ran to turn on my TV. I'll never forget it though, in my 1st period class we were all gathered around the TV and bawling our heads off. Naturally, classes were cancelled for the rest of the day.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997: I remember seeing an ad for it on MTV, but I wasn't into The Mac at that time. That was my Hanson/Spice Girls phase....

The fall of the Berlin Wall:Surprisingly, I remember this, despite being 4 years old at the time. My parents were watching ABC and they had some big breaking news thing about how the travel restrictions had been lifted, and they showed all the Germans dancing on the wall and passing from East to West. I didn't really get why it was such a big deal though, still being 4 years old and all. I just wanted to watch Head Of The Class, lol.

When Princess Diana died: The night that it happened, I was actually staying the night over at my friend Sean's house in Boise. We heard no mention of anything on the news or radio, but then when I got home my mom was like "Princess Diana was killed in a car wreck last night!" and I just remember being so shocked. I remember crying when I watched the funeral, I thought it was so tragic that she lost her life like that.

I recall seeing a mention of the Columbine shootings too, that's another memorable one for me... I remember coming home from school and my dad was watching the news, and they were talking about a shooting in Littleton, but hadn't mentioned a school name or anything yet. The next day all classes were cancelled, and all we talked about in class were the shootings and how we could prevent them at our school. I still get depressed on April 20th sometimes, just thinking of how tragic it was for those kids' friends and family.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

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.

I don't have time to respond to all of them but this one grabbed me because-- eerily!-- this is EXACTLY what i was doing that day!! I never stayed home sick, but that day i did, and was watching good ol' Bob Barker in my dad's study. How wierd, it's like we lived parallel lives that day!

-Lis

[GODDESS6]

Mount St. Helens: eating breakfast w/ my granny, she always, always had the news on, i remember worrying about all the people at the bottom that were devestated & killed~

Space Shuttle Challenger: i was a senior in highschool & my economis class was watching the take off live when it happened, it was so sad & i remember people crying the rest of the day~

O.J Simpson: i used to be a stock loan processor for our local newspaper's employee credit union & i always had a radio on my desk, my desk was also on the way to the smoking break room~ i remember alot of african american people would come by & listen to my radio & say hi when they were walking past to smoke & about 30 of the wrkers came & gathered arond my desk cuz they knew a verdict was in & when it came down not guilty, they all started freaking out, but not cuz they were happy, the kept saying that MOFO (insert real naughty word here) is so guilty, they were all pissed off~ it was a surrreal moment~

9/11: i run a home daycare & 98% of the babies i watch are military, there is a huge airforce base less than a mile from me~ i always watch the TODAY show & was watching it live when at 1st they just thought it was an accident & then i watched the other building being hit & all that was to follow, the base where i live is 1 of the places they brought bush that day, we have atratcom here & he came to one of the underground bunkers so to speak here~ that was one of the most saddest things i have ever witnessed~

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997. i saw something about it on MTV late night~ i started to cry, i was so excited!!!~

The fall of the Berlin Wall: not sure, i remember it happening, but not sure what i wasdoing~

When Princess Diana died: watching tv & having some beer w/ the hubby, 1st they reported about her accident, & then a few hours later that she had died, i remember throwing the remote, breaking a vase & saying "no no no"~ it was very sad~ i also remember getting up at 1 am my time to watch her entire funeral live~ i will neverforget it~

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by macfanken

Mary, the current activity at St Helens began on March 15, 1980 with a series of earthquakes leading up to the big eruption on May 18, 1980. There were several more large eruptions that summer.

Here's a link for info on the current eruption...

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/...framework.html

Here's a link to the volcano cam... doesn't work very well during the winter because of bad weather... but it's pretty cool when the weather is nice...

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

Thanks for the links! I went to the one with the volcano cam but all I saw was a fuzzy picture of green and purple? still, I think Mt Saint Helens is a fantastic opportunity for us to see vulcanism within our lifetimes....and the Cascade range is so active its almost scary

[ThePenguin]

okay, kids are on the bus, i have a minute now--


Mount St. Helens: I have absolutely no idea what i was doing for this one.

Space Shuttle Challenger: like David-- I was home sick from high school, watching Price is Right on the couch.

O.J Simpson: I was a Head Start teacher in Trenton NJ (urban area, primarily African American). Someone shouted the verdict down the hall from the bus office, and suddenly there was whooping and high fiving and general happiness from most everybody. I was stunned. I kept pretty much quiet, along w/ a few others who thought he was guilty as sin. Being 1 of 2 'white people' in the building, I had never really felt any sort of major 'cultural divide' until that day. really weird.

9/11: I was home w/ my toddler and preschooler, they were watching Barney. Marty called and told me a plane hit one of the towers, then called again and said another one hit. Couldn't really watch TV myself as i didn't want to traumatize my daughter. tried to have a normal day, as you have to do when you have little kids-- took them to the library where a librarian suddenly called out "Oh my God, it fell." I truly didn't think she meant the building. I had to go ask her. Took the kids out to the deserted nearby enclosed park, let them run around oblivious while i cried; I kept looking into that amazingly blue sky, wondering if maybe I'd start seeing smoke from it over in NY; Marty had said he could see it from where he worked. And I remember the fighter planes flying over later that day, really low, like janet said. very very scary day.


Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac re-union in 1997: Got an e-mail from John that they were all talking and that he hoped it would happen. To this day that e-mail is framed in my basement.

Berlin Wall: Just watched it on TV....

Princess Di: At our apmt in Edison NJ (Janet, you were there )-- Marty got up early and found out, and then came and woke me up and told me.

-Lis

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

I don't have time to respond to all of them but this one grabbed me because-- eerily!-- this is EXACTLY what i was doing that day!! I never stayed home sick, but that day i did, and was watching good ol' Bob Barker in my dad's study. How wierd, it's like we lived parallel lives that day!

-Lis

Others, myself included, have said the same thing. How weird is that? I never stayed home sick either.

[Villavic]

Mount St. Helens: Not at all. I was too young. But I do remember later comments about it

Space Shuttle Challenger: I was at university, in classes. I knew about it there and was in shock

O.J Simpson: Not an important new in my country.

9/11: Getting up for work in the morning and turning on the TV!! I didn't know what kind of plane it was, a little one, an air force, a jet, etc. Then it came the 2nd crash, and I knew everything in an instant. It had to be terrorsim. I was in shock for several days.

Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac renunion in 1997. Can't remember but sure it was checking the PENGUIN at work. God bless internet!!!

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

The Fleetwood Mac reunion in 1997

Sitting glued to my chair watching MTV and then almost falling off at the end of Silver Springs . . . .

No shiitte - that one, which brought me to tears of joy, and the GDW exorcism

[danax6]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

for sure. when I saw that bitch walk onstage in platform boots and struttin with that attitude with that tambo for The Chain I couldn't believe it...when she did that little twirl with her cute mouth all pursed I was in love

*le sigh*

Stop it. When I read things like this I always need to whip out The Dance dvd again, but I am stuck at work and the damn dvd is actually rented out! Not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing right now.

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

okay, kids are on the bus, i have a minute now--


Mount St. Helens: I have absolutely no idea what i was doing for this one.

Space Shuttle Challenger: like David-- I was home sick from high school, watching Price is Right on the couch.

O.J Simpson: I was a Head Start teacher in Trenton NJ (urban area, primarily African American). Someone shouted the verdict down the hall from the bus office, and suddenly there was whooping and high fiving and general happiness from most everybody. I was stunned. I kept pretty much quiet, along w/ a few others who thought he was guilty as sin. Being 1 of 2 'white people' in the building, I had never really felt any sort of major 'cultural divide' until that day. really weird.

9/11: I was home w/ my toddler and preschooler, they were watching Barney. Marty called and told me a plane hit one of the towers, then called again and said another one hit. Couldn't really watch TV myself as i didn't want to traumatize my daughter. tried to have a normal day, as you have to do when you have little kids-- took them to the library where a librarian suddenly called out "Oh my God, it fell." I truly didn't think she meant the building. I had to go ask her. Took the kids out to the deserted nearby enclosed park, let them run around oblivious while i cried; I kept looking into that amazingly blue sky, wondering if maybe I'd start seeing smoke from it over in NY; Marty had said he could see it from where he worked. And I remember the fighter planes flying over later that day, really low, like janet said. very very scary day.


Hearing about the Fleetwood Mac re-union in 1997: Got an e-mail from John that they were all talking and that he hoped it would happen. To this day that e-mail is framed in my basement.

Berlin Wall: Just watched it on TV....

Princess Di: At our apmt in Edison NJ (Janet, you were there )-- Marty got up early and found out, and then came and woke me up and told me.

-Lis

That email story is soooo cool Lis. Wow, what a guy.

[DavidMn]

Speaking of the renunion in '97, I couldnt decide which cicty I wanted to be the first to see them in, so I chose Cincinnati Ohio, October 3, 1997. I also went to Detroit, Indy, Minneapolis and Fargo, and tickets were easy to get for those shows, but for some reason I was having trouble getting tickets to Cincinnati. Ended up some different ticket angency was handling it and I didnt get tix until a week before the show. But I was lucky and got 4th row center. I sure wont forget that 700 mile drive from Minneapolis. And when they all walked on stage together, I was so proud to think that I was actually going to get to see them live after waiting for 20 years. It was also very cool because it was Lindsey's birthday, so that made it evern more special.

[SomeKindaMother]

Mount St. Helens: Sorry...I don't remember.


Space Shuttle Challenger: I was watching it and was flabbergasted. I held out hope that the 'capsule' the astronauts were contained in would be found with them all alive....even against all odds.

O.J Simpson: I really didn't know anything about it until the 'chase' scenes on tv. I thought it pretty well proved his guilt in my mind and I was devestated at the thought. At that time, I adored OJ. I thought he was adorable and so likable. I think I grieved that image being shattered.

9/11: I'm sorry to admit that I didn't really recognize the signifigance of the Trade center before then. I heard that a plane had hit the trade center and really didn't give it much thought. Then when the second plane hit...I can't really describe the feelings I had when I realized what was happening. For the first time in my life, I felt like I was helpless to protect my children.


The fall of the Berlin Wall:I watched it on TV, but I'm ashamed to say that I really didn't absorb the signifigance of it at the time. It wasn't till much later.

When Princess Diana died: I was driving home from my brother in law's card party with sleeping kids in the van. They didn't report her death immediately, so I remember praying and praying for her....and being rather shocked and how effected I was by this. I cried for her, and I never really was a 'princess watcher'...and rarely went out of my way to read about her. I think I just identified with her as a mother leaving children behind.


As far as the Murrow Building....the sheer nonsense of it. I do not see how those people...those *babies* could be viewed as collateral damage, or whatever. Whatever was being avenged was done so in the name of evil. Senseless.

By the way, our vehicle broke down once (caught on fire, actually!! Bad tranny overhaul.) outside Perry,OK a few years ago We were hauling a trailer, livestock and a whole buncha kids. Several drivers stopped with fire extinguishers. (I was throwing the kids out and unhooking the trailer because I was sure it would explode....no gas tank under the hood, but I was positive it would blow.) Anyway, the folks in that town could not have been more helpful if we'd have scripted it. The tow truck driver loaned us his personal truck to finish hauling our livestock to a cool, safe place. While we were doing that, they called the motel to check on the kids and make sure they didn't need anything to eat, etc. The dealership put us in a brand new transmission and we were on our way by morning. Anyway, to draw the connection...Perry is where they caught TImothy Mc Veigh. Perry just means the nicest folks on earth to me.

Kelly