Where were you when Challenger Exploded?

[Joods]

I know, some here were to young. I remember hearing my parents generation talk about where they were with JFK. I remember where with Bobby and Martin. For Challenger, I was in Charlotte Amalie hoofing it down the main drag next to the ocean. People in cars driving by shouting out the news. Didn't really believe until I saw it on TV.

Where were you? Any other pivotal events where you remember where you were when the news broke.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/30-years-lat...emembered/

I was in high school, 9th grade. The teacher had brought in a television so we could watch the launch. As with everyone else, we were confused about what was going on. One minute we were watching a shuttle, the next minute we were watching replays of the explosion as NASA tried to figure out what went wrong. It wasn't horrifying until minutes after it happened, and we could understand that we just witnessed seven people explode to their deaths.

I was on Padonia Road, in Maryland when the news of the first tower was hit by an airplane, on 9/11. I was on my way to my mothers apartment.

I also remember the year, though not specificallythe month or the day, that the Baltimore Colts left Baltimore in several Mayflower trucks. I was ten years old. It was truly a sad day for Colt's fans of Baltimore, who lost a beloved team. We did not get another team until 15 years later when the Cleveland Browns came and changed their name to the Baltimore Ravens.

I remember hearing on the news the day John Lennon was shot in front of his home in New York. I also remember seeing the attempted assination of President Reagan live on TV.

There's also the mass killings at the Waco compound. That was one hell of a mess.

Let's see.. oh Simpson's very slow chase by the police. He was riding as a passenger in his white Ford Bronco. I also remember watching the trial that followed not long after.

Here not too long ago, five years, almost to the day, our section of the US got hammered with back to back blizzards, within days of each other.

A few years ago we also experienced remnants of two hurricanes, one of which uprooted one of my trees, causing it to land on my new car.