Where were you the day that.........?
 

Some may not have been alive, but post anyway on what you were doing and where you were when.....

Kennedy was shot

We landed on the Moon

Challenger Exploded

** local ** 89 SF Earthquake

9/11

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha=

Wasn't Alive for Kennedy.. wish I was though..

Not here for the moon landing...

When the challenger exploded, I remember I was in school and my teacher was crying. I remember we were told to go home. To this day I remember the silent and still bus ride home. 90 kids on a bus and not a sound.

I was sleeping in Bed during the 89 quake. Felt a rumble. Stood up and thought I was sick... until a bookcase fell on me. Waited for hours for my father to get home. He took the freeway home that collapsed. I thought he was dead for sure. Luckily he wasn't.

I was in bed sleeping the morning of 9/11 with my wife. We had just had our first baby. I got a call from a friend who, is to say the least, and paranoid isolationist. All he said was "turn on CNN.. were all about to die...". I remember watching the first 5 minutes stunned. Wife was still asleep. All I could think was this logical "no.. no.. no.... stop.. ". Like you say to the sports on TV when watching your favorite team kidding their ass kicked. I remember feeling regret for having a child. Went in and told my wife...

Well, it'll take some brainstorming but WTF?

Kennedy = Not still around
Landed on the Moon = still in the hospital
Challenger exploded = At school
89 SF Earthquake = at home
9/11 = at home

:winkwink:

1) I was born 8 months later.

2) I believe I was in front of the old b&w TV.

3) At work.

4) Was home, posting about it on GFY and watching it on the news.

Challenger exploded: I was on a skiing holiday in Italy...I was a kid so I didn't care much

9/11: Just got home and I was chatting on IRC when someone said to turn on CNN...after that it was on

just got out of the PATH train under the wtc

Kennedy = In my second grade classroom
Landed on the Moon = somewhere in jr high in a classroom
jammed up with 4 or 5 classes so everyone could see. We
didn't have very many tv sets in schools then
Challenger exploded = in bed sleeping after a long night fleecing
your Dads as a dancer
89 SF Earthquake = same as above, your Uncles had held some
money back. ;-)p
9/11 = coming home from errands listening to the radio and
wondering who had doped up the local radio morning
crew

I can't remember. My mind refuses to playback time!

Most of the time, I guess I was at home!

The first 2, I was not alive yet, The last 3, I was probably at home.

Kennedy shot - was in 3rd grade I think, I remember they announced it over the school PA system, and one girl in our class breaking into tears, because it was her birthday

A few days later I watched Oswald get shot live on TV. That was pretty intense for a 10 year old.

Moon landing - The day after my 16th birthday, watched Neil take his first steps

Challenger - watched it happen on TV

89 SF earthquake - I was working for the telephone company, and at work. I had just gotten off the phone with a buddy of mine that worked for the same phone company 35 miles north of SF. He had just gotten off work. I worked in an electronic central office, which was pretty quiet compared to the old step by step equipment, but I remember the switch going very quiet (no relays clicking) then it went nuts with alarms because of carrier systems up and down the state dropping like flies.

The quake was actually centered around Santa Cruz, where another buddy of mine lived and had a pottery shop. He had all his ovens going as he was getting ready for a show. I spent several hours trying to get a hold of him. Took a couple days as I recall. He went thru a lot of terror at work and at his home.

9/11 - had not gone to bed yet, and happened to be on GFY when I saw the first threads popping up about it. Turned on the news in time to watch the second plane hit.

you had to go to school in the summer? bummer

lol I don't remember WHICH moon landing it was... but one of them, we were in school. ;-) Sheesh, that was centuries ago!

Never had to do summer school, knock on wood.

911 - In the car on my way to work. I totally thought it was all a prank until I changed the station and every single radio station was saying the same thing. Pretty freaky.

1 not born yet but it's my birthday
2 not born yet
3 School
4 At the bank opening an account and my moms cousin came in and told us about it. I knew that from that moment things wouldn't be the same again.

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.

9/11 = college

MUSIC DIED??? Oh wait I'm thinking of that one song...

Kennedy shot: My mom was in 5th grade

Landing on the moon: not even thought of yet


Challenger Explosion: I was helping my grandmother fold clothes, watching the launch on television. It was a snow-day, and there was no school for me, so I was rather enjoying not having to watch it on the little screen at school with thirty or so loud classmates. I remember thinking it was a special effect or something, then just dropping the towel I was folding and looking at my grandmother, who was staring in shock. I cried my eyes out. After all, I had wanted to be an astronaut, and my teacher had been a semi-finalist to be ON that shuttle. Really fuckin scary for the 9 year old I was.


I remember hearing about the 89 quake and seeing pictures, but it wasn't something that really affected me personally. I was across the country from it, and had no relatives over there, and though it was scary and really strange to me, it didn't make too much of a difference in my daily routine.

9/11: I was making breakfast, and my husband and I had been bitching about our then-roomie when I heard something on the morning radio that really made me stop and tell him to shut up. We heard the announcement that the Pentagon had been hit by a plane, and I quietly asked him to turn on the television. We watched as the plane hit tower 2. I have never been so terrified in my entire life. Part of me wept for the children, families, and friends of those killed, and part of me raged, and part of me was so terrified about what was next that I wanted to panic.

I called a friend who lives in Queens, and got no answer, so I got more frightened, called my friends in Washington state, woke Marty up, he turned on the news, said, "I'll call you back," hung up on me, and called his command. the bases were put on lockdown, and he called me back and told me not to call him for a while, he'd get back to me.

It was scary as hell. I'll never forget it.
:(

911 I was on my way into the office.. I normally listen to a talk show with two guys that are always screwing around... so I heard that a plane crashed into one of the towers and I was stunned, then 2 minutes later they said another plane crashed into the other tower and I wrote it off as a sick joke until I got into the office and everyone was going nuts.