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Where were you when...

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Inspired by the Challenger thread. What famous events do you remember where you were when you heard about it?

Myself...

Reagan assasination attempt - A friend called me at home - I remember answering it in the kitchen and putting the phone down to go turn on the TV

Challenger explosion - Between classes in H.S.

Berlin Wall - Cafeteria at college - told the guy he was full of sh|t till I saw it on the TV myself.

9/11 - Heard it on NPR on the drive in to work - I remember exactly where I was on the road as well.

Columbia reentry - was a saturday morning, my boss called me at home. I eventually had a bit part in the investigation.
 
Challenger I don't remember where I was.

9/11 - on my way to college just leaving my home heard it on the radio. Got pretty much nothing accomplished at school/work that day.
 
9/11-woke up, mom said a plane hit trade towers, walked in bathroom, walk back to tv in time to see 2nd plane explode into building

columbia-just woke up, saw thread on ATOT, was like...oh ******

rest I was either not born or too young to remember.
 
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At school, I was confused about everything. Got a half day😛

(I had to google this one...) uh sleeping or computer?
 
Events I remember:

Challenger: 3rd grade, watched it live on TV

1995 OKC bombing: I was a senior in HS interning at a local newsradio station (KRLD in Dallas). That was a Wednesday, my day to work in the newsroom. What an experience. It was total chaos, and as I walked in someone handed me a sheet of paper and said "Here, go call these military bases and see if they're sending assistance." Trial by fire, indeed. 😀

9/11: I had just gotten out of the morning meeting with my boss and a few of our techs, and as the meeting ended someone mentioned a plane had hit a building in NYC. I walked into the machine room just in time to see a replay of the second plane hit. I spent the entire day relaying news to my parents (who didn't have TV access at work) and surfing CNN, ATOT, and ArsTech for updates.

Columbia: Got woken up at 8am on the dot by three loud bangs that tracked west to east. Didn't think anything of it until I was driving back from Fry's later that morning and all the freeway signs had messages up warning about possible shuttle debris.

Dave
 
JFK assassination - 2nd grade, called in early from playground, saw teachers crying (scary!), principal announced it after everyone had returned to class.

Challenger explosion - snow day from work, I was in the shower, a student called and asked if I was watching it.

9/11 - teaching my 2nd period American history class, another teacher stopped by and said might want to turn TV on, we were watching when the 2nd plane hit.

Princess Diana's death (strangely enough) - Labor Day weekend, watching a video, my brother visiting from Florida came in and told me she'd been in an accident and it was TV, couldn't believe it when they said she was dead.

Marshall University football team plane crash - watching a wrestling match at my school.

Buffalo Creek disaster - was supposed to go to a band competition that morning, just got back from going to the school and finding out that it had been cancelled because of the area flooding, heard about it on the radio.

Dale Earnhardt's death - talking with a student by instant messaging.

Start of Operation Desert Storm - on the couch at my mom's watching TV.

John Lennon's death - watching Monday Night Football.

JFK, Jr.'s death - at my mom's house starting out the door for shopping trip when it came on TV about his plane missing, ended up watching TV most of the day.

1989 northern California earthquake - on my couch all ready for the start of the World Series.

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that come to mind right away.



 
Reagan Assassination Attempt - Not born yet.

Challenger Explosion - Not born yet.

Berlin Wall - Way too young to remember, born in 1986.

Dale Earhart's Death - Making hot dogs with my dad in the kitchen. Saw it happen on live TV.

September 11th, 2001 - Was making cookies in a stupid science class, brand new high school for me. I was a freshman. The teacher that came in to tell us about it was later fired for having pornography on his computer.

Columbia Re-Entry - I was outside building a ramp for skateboarding.
 
Reagan assasination attempt - Was in 3rd Grade... the news was broadcast over the PA

Challenger explosion - woke up and turned on the TV in time to see the SRBs wandering off

Berlin Wall - Don't remember exactly what or where... But I remember it.

9/11 - Had just landed from a flight late the night before. One of the people I was flying with called me at 6am and said "Remember the World Trade Center?" I was like... what do you mean remember? He said, "Turn on the news... they're gone. They blew them up."

Columbia reentry - Had just landed in Maui. Was driving to the hotel in the rental car trying to figure out the radio when the news came on.

Start of Operation Desert Storm - On my dad's couch. Was watching MTV trying to fall asleep when Kurt Loder popped on to make the announcement. (About 1am IIRC) Then MTV started playing John Lennon hippy videos over and over... I fell asleep no problem after that.
 
Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Not alive.

Not alive.

Not alive.

Sleeping.

I don't even know what that is, so I'm betting not alive.
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Time to crawl out from under that ginormous hamburger bun you've been living in. How can you not know about the Columbia re-entry? It happened in your State.
 
9/11: 10th grade Social Studies - a teacher from a nearby classroom came in and whispered to the teacher and then he turned the classroom TV on and everyone saw a smoking WTC tower. The second plane hit just as the class was dismissing. The towers fell in my next hour, Creative Writing.

I don't really have anything else, although I was awake in the morning watching the Olympics coverage live when the pipe bomb exploded in Atlanta at Olympic Park in '96. Just two normal newscaster talking into the camera in front of a large pane of glass in a building. In the background outside the building there was a bright flash and a second later the windows shook and the newscasters were like "whaaaa?"
 
9/11 - 12th grade English class. School principal came over the PA and told us - it was clear that he was in tears and that the situation was bad. Almost immediately the bell rang and I and my friends headed to Computer Science, our next class. Every news website we could think of was slammed. The CS teacher found a tv somewhere, and we all watched in silence, stunned.

Princess Di - My grandparents' house in San Angelo, TX. My dad woke me up and told me.

OJ Verdict - Just coming in from recess in 5th (?) grade. I remember wondering why it was such a big deal.

Most of the others, I'm too young to remember. Oddly enough, I don't remember the recent Columbia disaster either.
 
9/11 At high school, heard it from a friend then watched the first tower fall on live tv.

Columbia checked my news on my homepage when I woke up and saw it.
 
Reagan assasination attempt - Not alive

Challenger explosion - Either not alive or too young to remember

Berlin Wall - Too young to remember

9/11 - Getting into first class of the morning

Columbia reentry - neffing on AT.
 
President J.F. Kennedy assasination, I was 5 years old,
I recall watching the funeral on our familys New big Color TV. 🙁
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Robert Kennedy assasination, saw live on a small tv in the kitchen, it was
on top of the fridge. 🙁
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Apollo 1 heard Walter Cronkite announce on CBS news. 🙁

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Apollo204/

1972 Olympics, where in the news I first hear the word terrorist. :|
In junior high.

Terrorists turn '72 Munich Olympics into bloodbath

Eleven Israeli athletes are killed during daylong siege. Airport shootout also leaves 5 captors, 1 policeman dead.

Dale Earnhardt. 🙁

I was almost at the track, I was out of work due to an injury,
and almost went to the race. I cried as soon as I saw his car hit the wall.
My g/f at the time asked me whats wrong, I couldn't even talk,
just point at the TV.


 
April 29, 1992 - Watching madness start to unfold with my eyes glued to the TV at home as sundown approached.

I was fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to get out of my 8th-grade classes early to see the news helicopters' coverage of the evil first consuming the mob gathered at and around Florence & Normandie, and then what seemed to be all of L.A. within minutes. I remember how I thought of giving everything in the world in return for the assurance my parents would make it back from work safely. Both worked in the South Bay at the time, my mother near Normandie & Artesia, 7-8 all-too-close miles south of what seemed to be the epicenter of it all. Our home was even closer to the infamous intersection. Glad that my family, and all my friendships survived that unfortunate release of racial tension, economic depression, and criminal tendencies.
 
Originally posted by: DaveJ
Events I remember:

Challenger: 3rd grade, watched it live on TV

1995 OKC bombing: I was a senior in HS interning at a local newsradio station (KRLD in Dallas). That was a Wednesday, my day to work in the newsroom. What an experience. It was total chaos, and as I walked in someone handed me a sheet of paper and said "Here, go call these military bases and see if they're sending assistance." Trial by fire, indeed. 😀
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Oops, forgot about that one - I saw it on a TV in the BX at LA AFB

Another one - the Columbine Massacre. Clearly remember a coworker coming into my cube and asking if I knew anybody with kids in H.S. in Denver.

9/11: I had just gotten out of the morning meeting with my boss and a few of our techs, and as the meeting ended someone mentioned a plane had hit a building in NYC. I walked into the machine room just in time to see a replay of the second plane hit. I spent the entire day relaying news to my parents (who didn't have TV access at work) and surfing CNN, ATOT, and ArsTech for updates.

Columbia: Got woken up at 8am on the dot by three loud bangs that tracked west to east. Didn't think anything of it until I was driving back from Fry's later that morning and all the freeway signs had messages up warning about possible shuttle debris.

Dave
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9/11: Sitting at work. I missed the second plane because I was too busy locking down my building(Our entire base was at high alert for a week, even though we were in the middle of nowhere and had zero planes).
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: alien42
oj verdict. on a campus bus on the way to an art class and everyone cheered 😕
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er...they were happy a murderer got off free?
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yeah, hense the confusion smiley. i will never understand the reaction considering it was a given he was guilty.
 
Reagan assassination attempt - not born yet =)

Challenger explosion - too lazy to look up the dates, but im almost certain i wasn't born yet. I was an 86 kid though =]

Berlin Wall - too small to remember

Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 - I was 3 and I was at my babysitter's and I was about to eat a snack, and then holy crap.. I remember hiding under the table.

9/11 - My mom woke me up because she watches stocks (west coast) and shew as like wtf the buidlings are on fire. I stared groggily at the TV (was only awake for like 1 min) and then BOOM 2nd plane hits. Holy crap. Sat at breakfast table in horror, I had weight training and had to get there by 7:15, so I had to go to school early to lift weights, bu tno one was lifting that day. We sat at the radio. It was a block schedule day, so we stayed till 9:00 and by then the towers collapsed. I still didn't understand how they collapsed... They announced during 3rd period about the whole thing, and the classroom was silent i remember...

Columbia - Ehhhh I was sleeping in. Come on. It was a Saturday? Sunday? Junior year of high school. I remember writing a poem with my friend for our english class a few days later "I hear America's children crying... I want to be an astronaut too!" some stuff like that.

Princess Di - One Friday? Saturday? turned on TV to watch some movie. CNN said car crash and she was in GRAVE condition. Finished movie and she died. WTF. Eyesw ere glued on TV the rest of the night....

Michael Jackson - I was visiting my friend at work, a nd we turned up the radio in the store as loud as it could go and a customer was ready to pay. Except he just stood there too listening, not expecting us to ring up his stuff just yet. And we just stood there in silence... listening... Hah.
 
In class in 2nd grade when they announced over the PA that Kennedy had been killed.

MLK assassination I was at home and remember more the riots that followed. I lived in Alexandria, VA then and it all seemed so scarily close by, even more so when a 7-11 about 3 miles from where we lived was fire bombed.

Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon at home recording it on my crappy little cassette recorder. I probably still have that tape in a box somewhere.

Nixon resignation I was in boot camp and remember we were all listening to it in stunned silence over the PA in our barracks before lights out.

A friend and I were backpacking through Europe on 14 days leave from the USS Independence when Elvis died. On that same cruise I was at sea about a week out from Norfolk when the Skynyrd plane crash occured.

I was driving on I 66 coming home from JMU when I heard about the Reagan assassination attempt on the radio.

I was at work at the Naval Research Lab when the Challenger exploded.

I was at work at a subcontractors facility listening to Stern when 9/11 started. No one else knew what I was talking about when I started trying to get out on the net to see what was taking place.
 
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