Memories

[Whateverist]

I remember quite a few moments from before I went to school, so younger than 5. I remember hearing about Hawaii and Alaska becoming states before I had much of an idea what a state was. Eisenhower was the first president I remember at all. The Nixon/Kennedy presidential election was the first I was aware of. When I was a kid we had trading cards bearing images of the rockets involved in various stages of the space program. I remember that my older brother had a teddy bear while had a stuffed tiger. He made me bury mine for some reason for which he got into more trouble than I did. I remember one epic dream from that time. Probably the event that seared the deepest was wetting my pants in kindergarten. I would put off going to the bathroom until it was a crisis. One day by the time I fished it out it was an out of control fire hose. Pretty much sprayed down the whole room. Spent a good deal of time air dying outside the room.