where were you when
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debgeisler:
...Kennedy (Jack) was shot? I'm told I was in my stroller in the park. I was three at the time.
...Kennedy (Bobby) was shot? I don't remember.
...the Eagle landed? In a campground in Oregon -- I heard the moon landing, but I didn't see it, at least not live.
...we left Vietnam? I don't remember, except for a bunch of footage of helicopters. I was in junior high at the time, and was too full of my own angst to pay much attention to the news.
...Three Mile Island hiccupped? At college in Colorado. I'd just gone to see The China Syndrome the week before [wry g].
...the Challenger exploded? Driving to work in Eugene, Oregon. I remember arriving and sitting in the parking lot until I was almost late for work, just stunned.
... Princess Di was killed? When I heard about it, I had just left a theater after having watched a [very good] production of Much Ado About Nothing.
...the World Trade Center fell? Yosemite National Park. I got up that morning, stepped outside my tent cabin at Camp Curry in Yosemite Valley, heard a bunch of schoolkids blabbering about "the World Trade Center's been bombed!", wondered what movie they'd been watching the night before, went for a daylong hike (up the Mist Trail), and got back that evening to discover that they really had bombed (so to speak) the World Trade Center. And the Pentagon. I watched the news on the nearest television that evening, which happened to be with a standing room audience in the bar of the Ahwahnee Hotel. Except for the TV, you could have heard a pin drop. I headed home the next morning, and I had never seen so many American flags before in my life. The highways were lined with them.
...we invaded Iraq? Funny, I remember the first time we invaded Iraq, in 1991, better than the second time. The first time I was in library school, and some kid crashed our classroom shouting, "we're bombing Iraq!" which pretty much ended the usefulness of that class that evening. I went back to my dorm and watched CNN in the lounge, with about a hundred other people. I don't really remember the second invasion as a moment. What I remember is the soldiers pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein with ropes. I was at home, in the duplex in UP, and the whole thing just seemed surreal.
debgeisler:...Kennedy (Jack) was shot? I'm told I was in my stroller in the park. I was three at the time.
...Kennedy (Bobby) was shot? I don't remember.
...the Eagle landed? In a campground in Oregon -- I heard the moon landing, but I didn't see it, at least not live.
...we left Vietnam? I don't remember, except for a bunch of footage of helicopters. I was in junior high at the time, and was too full of my own angst to pay much attention to the news.
...Three Mile Island hiccupped? At college in Colorado. I'd just gone to see The China Syndrome the week before [wry g].
...the Challenger exploded? Driving to work in Eugene, Oregon. I remember arriving and sitting in the parking lot until I was almost late for work, just stunned.
... Princess Di was killed? When I heard about it, I had just left a theater after having watched a [very good] production of Much Ado About Nothing.
...the World Trade Center fell? Yosemite National Park. I got up that morning, stepped outside my tent cabin at Camp Curry in Yosemite Valley, heard a bunch of schoolkids blabbering about "the World Trade Center's been bombed!", wondered what movie they'd been watching the night before, went for a daylong hike (up the Mist Trail), and got back that evening to discover that they really had bombed (so to speak) the World Trade Center. And the Pentagon. I watched the news on the nearest television that evening, which happened to be with a standing room audience in the bar of the Ahwahnee Hotel. Except for the TV, you could have heard a pin drop. I headed home the next morning, and I had never seen so many American flags before in my life. The highways were lined with them.
...we invaded Iraq? Funny, I remember the first time we invaded Iraq, in 1991, better than the second time. The first time I was in library school, and some kid crashed our classroom shouting, "we're bombing Iraq!" which pretty much ended the usefulness of that class that evening. I went back to my dorm and watched CNN in the lounge, with about a hundred other people. I don't really remember the second invasion as a moment. What I remember is the soldiers pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein with ropes. I was at home, in the duplex in UP, and the whole thing just seemed surreal.
