days you remember forever

bstrangely · June 2011

when you guys were talking about remembering when kurt cobain died, i started thinking about all the days i remember. my 3rd tri board had a thread on 9/11 about where you were when you found out... what other days can you come up with?

when the challenger blew up, i was in third grade and we were all watching the launch in every classroom, because of the teacher on board. only about half the class realized what was happening before the teachers shut the news off and started losing it.

i remember being in the car with my parents listening to the radio when the wall in berlin came down.

we were in las vegas seeing blue man when the crocodile hunter died (ok, i know that's a weird one, but i remember really vividly that the entire audience was talking about it before curtain.)

i knew people in high school who drove down to waco when the branch davidians were fighting the atf.

what am i missing? anybody else as old as i am?

Rach21 · June 2011

I remember when the Berlin wall came down... and I also remember the first summer Olympics when the former Soviet countries used a different flag kinda like the olympic flag because they didn't have one yet (the summer olympics in Atlanta).

I remember the Oklahoma City bombings and Timothy McVeigh.

I remember when they found the Unabomber in Lincoln, MT (I grew up in Great Falls, MT).

I remember 9/11, of course. And even though it's pretty recent, I'm going to remember when Saddam Hussein was tried and hanged, and when the SEALs got UBL.

CinemaGoddess · June 2011

I remember all of those plus:

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I was 3 1/2, but I remember seeing the dissipating ash cloud from my house. Which is cray cray because we were about 100 miles away.

I remember when Reagan was shot.

I remember when they executed Ted Bundy.

I remember the OKC bombing.

historychick79 · June 2011

1--I remember Challenger, in elementary school

2--Berlin Wall, crowded hallways in middle school

3--was getting ready for work when I heard about Princess Di dying

4--at my office when the first 9/11 plane hit the towers; went for my 15min break walk, and returned right as the 2nd plane hit. I left early that day to give blood, got sunburned waiting to get into the center and they wouldn't take my blood because my temp was too high due to the sunburn. I also remember walking back to my car that evening, and it was just eerily silent downtown. That was a frustrating/scary day...

DaisyFull · June 2011

I remember seeing the very first video played on MTV (video killed the radio star).

I remember when Jessica McClure fell into the well.

I remember when Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS.

ETA: I also remember when Flight 255 crashed in Detroit.

DaisyFull · June 2011

laura_belle:
I also remember playing Atari. When it was hi-tech and awesome.

Pitfall & Frogger were my favorites. I also rocked at Pole Position.

Pole Position.. now there's a game that would have a whole 'nother meaning these days.

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CinemaGoddess · June 2011

I remember when an Apple IIE was the computer to have.

I remember using a rotary dial.

I remember this being in the stores:

CinemaGoddess · June 2011

beccaga16:

9/11 I was walking into Spanish classs my senior year when I first heard.

Oklahoma City bombing, I was in 5th grade in class.

Princess Diana's death, I was at a soccer tournament staying at a hotel and I woke up because my parents were watching TV and turned it up when the news of the accident broke in.

OJ verdict. I was in 6th grade watching on my homeroom TV.

I remember being pissed that the news report about the car crash pre-empted Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. That was before we found out that Princess Di passed away, though. Then I felt bad for being pissed.

AMossy · June 2011

I remember the majority of what you have mentioned and Columbine. I have no idea why, it's not like I lived near the school, but that day is etched in my memory.

bstrangely · June 2011

DaisyFull:
I remember seeing the very first video played on MTV (video killed the radio star).
I remember when Jessica McClure fell into the well.
I remember when Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS.
ETA: I also remember when Flight 255 crashed in Detroit.

oh wow, now i feel bad forgetting to list the okc bombing and mcveigh.

i also remember jessica in the well. and i remember watching the columbine shootings with my roommate in college. i remember watching oj fleeing down the closed highway at like 40 mph.

i remember seeing et in the theater, but my sister and i had to be removed before the ending. that was some scary ***.

lildevil968 · June 2011

1- The OJ trial, and the verdict. I was sitting in my 7th grade science class at the time.

2- The Columbine High School shootings. We where at lunch when it came over the car radio. It was my junior year in H.S.

3- 9/11- I was inside the pentagon when the plane hit. I just got back down to my desk after going up to the McD's to get some breakfast.

4- The 2003 Iraq invasion. I was waiting in Kuwait for our turn to enter the country.

5- I will always remember the death of Saddam, and UBL as well.

DaisyFull · June 2011

bstrangely:
DaisyFull:
I remember seeing the very first video played on MTV (video killed the radio star).
I remember when Jessica McClure fell into the well.
I remember when Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS.
ETA: I also remember when Flight 255 crashed in Detroit.
oh wow, now i feel bad forgetting to list the okc bombing and mcveigh.
i also remember jessica in the well. and i remember watching the columbine shootings with my roommate in college. i remember watching oj fleeing down the closed highway at like 40 mph.
i remember seeing et in the theater, but my sister and i had to be removed before the ending. that was some scary ***.

I think ET was actually the first movie I saw on the big screen. And it was at a drive-in to boot.

apaul1208 · June 2011

DaisyFull:
bstrangely:
DaisyFull:

I remember seeing the very first video played on MTV (video killed the radio star).

I remember when Jessica McClure fell into the well.

I remember when Ryan White was diagnosed with AIDS.

ETA: I also remember when Flight 255 crashed in Detroit.

oh wow, now i feel bad forgetting to list the okc bombing and mcveigh.

i also remember jessica in the well. and i remember watching the columbine shootings with my roommate in college. i remember watching oj fleeing down the closed highway at like 40 mph.

i remember seeing et in the theater, but my sister and i had to be removed before the ending. that was some scary ***.

I think ET was actually the first movie I saw on the big screen. And it was at a drive-in to boot.

Roger Rabbit was my first movie. I am ashamed.

aocain02@yahoo.com · June 2011

I remember most of what has been posted and a lot of local events. The Rodney King beating and riots. The first earthquake I ever felt, I was going the bathroom at the time and ran out with my undies around my ankles. The night stalker that was going around Los Angeles, my sister told me he'd only kill people in yellow houses one night when we were staying with my grandparents who live in a yellow house. The attack on the USS Cole. The tsunami in Indonesia.

driveshorses · June 2011

I was in school when the Challenger blew up, I don't remember where I was when the Berlin Wall came down, I was at home when the Trade Towers came down..I remember vividly looking outside thinking how beautiful it was while listening to the TV. I was in high school waiting with everyone else to find out if OJ was guilty or not. I don't remember what I was doing when Kurt Cobain died. I was in HS when Biggie Smalls and Tupac got killed. DH and I were talking last night about how we were at the fireworks store when I heard about Michael Jackson.

Wow. Craziness how it brings it back when I think of these things!

whinydaisy · June 2011

Oh Lady Di. That was a sad day.

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