Where were you when...

[southernleftylady]

Where where you when JFK was shot?
Elvis died?
9/11 attacks?
what are some of the events in your life that you remember where you were?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Imagine

I had just awakened on a frosty Dec. day 25 years ago when I heard about the murder of John Lennon.

[bigscott]

2. I had just gotten back

from a night out on the town in college when I heard about John Lennon. My roomates could not understand why I was crying!

On 9/11 I was on I-95 headed into NYC after an early morning appointment to take my son for his chickenpox vaccine. I was listening to a 10,000 Maniacs CD when my mother called my mobile and told me to turn on the radio - and to turn around - NYC had been attacked and all the tunnels and bridges were closed.

[acmejack]

3. I know where I was for:

JFK, RFK, MLK, John Lennon, Gus Grissom and crew, Tet, 9/11, failed Iranian hostage rescue mission, Challenger explosion are really the events I remember.

[abluelady]

5. I remember all those, too.

Why is it the mind remembers all the traumatic things but so many of the nice things fade away?

[katinmn]

4. The first moon landing

That was one I felt proud of.

[abluelady]

6. If I remember correctly,

that was the same weekend Teddy Kennedy's aspirations for President ended. Wasn't that the same time as Chappaquidick (sp?)?

[Cooley Hurd]

7. I wasn't born yet (JFK assassination), but...

I remember very clearly the day Elvis died. I'd just gotten back from flying with a family friend (who, incidentally, was a HUGE Elvis fan) in his Piper Vagabond. I heard the news on TV, and made the trek down to his camp from ours (on Cayuga Lake, NY) to break the news to him.

On 9/11, I was en route to NYC to see a client, but got as far as Albany when I heard the news. I u-turned it back to my house, and sat in front of the TV all day and far into the night (and smoked a ton of pot).

[merbex]

8. A quick rundown:

JFK - I was 3; I remember sitting at the kitchen table my father had just said goodbye to me ( he worked at our family's restaurant) and the phone rang. My mother answered the phone and cried out to my father who was standing behind me "My mother says so in so called and said the President's been shot!" My father answered her also clearly upset "No! that can't be true - where did she hear that?"

I was scared because my parents were upset

Elvis? I don't remember

9/11 - I was in a golf tournament waiting to tee off and the groundskeeper came running out of the clubhouse and yelled that a plane crashed into the WTC. As a former Flight Attendant I asked him "what kind of a plane was it?" He got huffy and said what difference does that make?" Isaid "Huge, I hope it's a small one and the pilot had a heart attack" He looked at me funny but I knew unless it was that it was really bad

[LWolf]

9. OK:

JFK: I don't know; I was just a toddler, and I don't remember anything about it.

RFK: In my living room in our little apartment in Sherman Oaks; the news on the tv was big and dramatic, my mom was crying, and trying to tell me why this person was such a big loss. It was the first time I'd ever really stopped to think about what kind of mind or heart sets out to take a life.

Elvis: In my new apartment, starting my new life as an "adult," 3 days after my wedding. I was 17. My husband was the Elvis fan; I prepared to comfort him when he got home from work.

9/11: At home. My oldest son called me on the phone and demanded that I turn on the news; I was irritated with him. He knew I never watched tv news. I turned it on to humor him, watched the graphics, and told him, "that's too bad." Then I turned off the tv and went back to whatever I'd been doing before. Something to do with "resting" and "recovering" from the accident I'd just been released from the hospital over; nerve damage, a skull fracture, and a severe frontal lobe concussion. When people kept bringing it up over the next few weeks, I got resentful. I kept thinking, "They sure as hell didn't seem so concerned when my whole life got bombed earlier this year, or when I was laying there in ICU a couple of weeks ago." Of course, that wasn't true. I just resented that no matter what personal destruction I experienced, everyone assumed that because I was "strong," I could deal with it, get over it, and go on. By myself, with little or no support from anyone else on the planet. Yet "America" needed to wallow in hysterical grief and fear, and sign away opposition to GWB's agenda, and all common sense, because they were "grieving," or because they didn't feel "safe," and had to cower behind *s coattails.

12/8/80 On my way to work in the little coffee shop connected to the local bowling alley. Shock, denial, outrage, grief, and a feeling of being lost. Who would take poetry, thought, and humanness to the world with Lennon gone?

[calico1]

10. Don't remember JFK's death.

Vaguely remember his funeral. I don't really remember him being President.

Some events I do remember--RFK assasination. Was at my downstairs neighbors home watching when it happened. She was biting her nails like crazy waiting for any news.

MLK--don't remember exactly where I was but do remember the days around that time.

Challenger--was at work. A girl who always came in later burst into the office crying and saying "the challenger exploded. They are all dead." That was unbelievable. We were like zombies the rest of the day.

John Lennon--I was in college but don't recall exactly where I was. Do remember tons of tributes to him.

9/11--I was at work. I remember the mother of a coworker called her and said there was a plane crash. We brought up CNN and saw the picture of what looked to be a small plane. I remember saying how odd it was for a small plane to crash. With those buildings being so tallk, how could that happen? Then as the day wore on, her mom and the ex girlfriend of a coworker kept calling with updates. Some e-mail friends I had on aol kept me up to date because it was impossible to get into a website. We finally got some news from the BBC online. But no work got done that day. And again, it was like we were all zombies.

[BOSSHOG]

11. A look back

JFK - at St Columba Catholic School in Philadelphia. Sister Adrian Marie came in the room, told us to put our heads down on our desks and pray for the President.

Elvis - driving to class on the University of Arkansas campus

Challenger Explosion - on duty Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

9/11 - Driving to work in Gulfport Mississippi listening to two chuckleheads on the radio talking about how a plane hit one of the twin towers in NY, yuck, yuck, little planes do that all the time. And then "Oh My God, another plane has hit the towers."

[leftchick]

12. when John Lennon was killed

I was playing cards with my boyfriend and another couple. We all ended up getting smashed on wine after were heard the news. :cry:

[izzie]

13. Well I was in NYC in Dec. when John was shot.

Taken care of kids in Conn with JFK and sitting behind my father on Dec. 7 in Maine as he had his ear to the radio. Painting in my studio on 911 in Maine.At a riding camp for girls in NH when WW2 was over. Sort of odd things you can drag up when your my age.:woohoo:

[Burma Jones]

14. Mem-ries.......

Moon landing, Rockville, MD, apartment, largely empty, moving van showing up next day to move to New Orleans.

Hurricane Camille - New Orleans, Tenth Birthday, had been there about two weeks, remember everything going sideways

Munich Olympics - Watching TV in living Room, back in Maryland, remember the bulletin, has shaped my attitude towards Israeli-Palestinain conflict ever since.

Death of Elvis - on the way to a party shortly before my 18th Birthday. Groucho Marx died a couple days later, remember hearing about that in my High School Parking lot picking up a friend to go to Clancy's to celebrate my 18th Birthday.

John Lennon's Death - was returning from a rehearsal of Sam Shepard's Buried Child. Went into the Frat House I was staying in over Winter Break and I caught the news tease from WGN, just caught the phrase "killed in New York, details to come"...I told my friend there that "some big shot got killed in NY" We sat down and waited for the commercials to end, then, the photo of John Lennon from the White Album came up on the TV screen......

Space Shuttle - heard about it at work

Jerry Garcia Dies - guy at the office tells me, I go and get confirmation on the radio.....

9/11 - Was at the Javits Federal Building in NY, outside, heard the first jet hit. When the second one hit, I started walking north. made it to Washington Square and visited my brother at NYU, emailed wife to let her know I was OK, saw towers fall from there. Got home late that Afternoon.

Those are the biggies.....

[DKStreet]

15. And what will the next great memory jogger be?

JFK--I was a young'n, but my mother said we had just finished grocery shopping when the guy loading her car told her he had just heard it on someone's radio.

Elvis--I was in the middle of a cross-country trip with my family, we were actually driving through the deep south right afterwards. I remember seeing alot of mourners heading to Graceland at the rest areas. Crazy bunch.

9/11--Looking out my window in D.C. watching all hell break loose! Dozens of black limousines hauling ass through the city like no other motorcade you've ever seen, then it was the most monumental case of gridlock you've ever seen when everybody else bugged out.