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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 27, 2016 at 10:28 pm
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9/11 was a little different, spread out over time, took a while to realize what it all was building up to. I live near SAC, when AF1 and Bush arrived, it was apparent the shit had hit the fan.
I remember Kennedy clearly enough, but was too young for shock, although coming home from school and finding mom crying (and no cartoons on TV !!) got my attention. I remember Cronkite announcing LBJ had passed, and I remember evening TV programming being interrupted for MLK. I was in a campground near Denver when Tricky Dicky resigned, and I was at the Des Moines airport when Daley died and when I found out about United 191.
I was in the kitchen here for Columbia, I was at work in Wisconsin when the boss came out and informed all of us the pope had died (Paul or John Paul?) and he let anyone go home that wanted to. I stayed.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 27, 2016 at 11:47 pm
And the 'other' space shuttle accident almost no one remembers. 2 technicians killed during a test on Columbia, March 19, 1981.
http://www.wired.com/2009/03/march-19-19...atalities/
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 12:12 am
I would have been 7 months old. Hmm... I was probably busy with my foot in my mouth.
However, hanging on a wall on the back porch at my grandmother's house, are four pictures of the explosion. One of my earliest memories was asking my Aunt Mimi (who died just afterwards in 1992) what that picture was about and her explaining it to me.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 2:29 am
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I can just barely remember the moon landing.
All that other shit seems like yesterday.
You know how they have BC and AD.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 2:41 am
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 3:02 am
(January 27, 2016 at 7:58 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: 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.
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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.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 3:32 am
I was two when the challenger thing happened.
I remember 9 11. I was in college playing bass guitar with a group of other people, the teacher in the room said he just got a txt message saying a plane had crashed into a tower in America. None of us were that excited by it, possibly because we didn't realize the magnitude of the situation.
When I got back home and saw it on TV an hour or so later I was really shocked when I saw the size of the buildings and the planes, and the fact it had happened twice.
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 3:53 am
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I was just home from kindergarten, and I do remember, but barely any details. For us Europeans it was overshadowed by Chernobyl exactly three months later. No more playing outside, that's something you remember...
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 4:52 am
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Wasn't there another Russian catastrophe with a nuke sub which became a tomb for so many sailors... That story is so sad...
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RE: Where were you when Challenger Exploded?
January 28, 2016 at 5:05 am
(January 28, 2016 at 4:52 am)ignoramus Wrote: Wasn't there another Russian catastrophe with a nuke sub which became a tomb for so many sailors... That story is so sad...
The Kursk, all 118 hands lost, and one other (decommissioned) sub. The US has lost two, Thresher and Scorpion, both with all hands lost.
The Soviet Union lost four nuke subs, and in addition even managed to sink the same one twice - but it was raised both times.
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