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Kennedy was shot - wasn't born
We landed on the Moon - wasn't born
Challenger Exploded - okay, this was a big day in my life. Firstly, my mother had applied to be one of the teacher's in space and made it past the first round. OKay - I was in third grade, I was in the nurses office because I had a belly ache or something. She was taking my temp and had the radio on. She came into the room and said 'the space shuttle just blew up'. I said (like a smart kid) 'the one with the teacher on it?'.
I went back to my class just as we were about to go to lunch. I told the teacher what had happened and in front of the entire class he called me a liar. He muttered a slight 'sorry' the next day.
It was that day I decided I wanted to be a journalist. I got a buzz off being the person breaking the news. Okay, so I didn't actually get to work for the NY Times but I am married to a journalist and we run our own local online newspaper.
** local ** 89 SF Earthquake: Watched it on tv.
9/11 - I was here listening to talk/news radio as I do everyday. They came on the radio and said that a small plane had hit the one tower. So, I turned on news tv just to check it out. About two minutes later I watched the second plane go in. ALSO, if you do a search on my old nick - Sjayne - I was the one with the first thread about it on GFY. To me, that was the day that this board became (for whatever period of time) a community. I read that thread once a year, just to remember what it was like.
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