Just one of those moments

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but the actual "The Eagle has Landed" moon landing I remember very clearly,

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I remember it clearly too....I was watching it with my dad....no tin foil on the antenna...

But pliers for changing the channel :p


MLF

In no particular order but sorta trying to make it chronological:-

1. Sir Winston Churchill died...

2. England won the 1966 World Cup final... (this might sound trivial to Americans... It isn't to most of the world).

3. Sitting up until the early hours of the morning to watch the Eagle landing... (preceded by a program on chemical warfare where the explicit deaths of rabbits, goats and pigs were shown... Don't ask... They _had_ to know kids were going to be allowed to stay up for the landing... but they showed it as a "filler" between the end of normal programming and the landing... :rolleyes:

4. Walking into operations after an air test to be told by a completely white Ops Sgt...

Sgt: The shuttle just blew up...

Me: Yeah right...

Sgt: Noduff.. Look at the TV... (Noduff is a military term that means this is a fact there is no deception)

Me (as I see the replay): Holy F$king sh1t... It's a Joke... right...

Sgt: [No response]

5. While serving on detatchment in Belize answering the phone to be informed that a Chinook helicopter in the Falklands Islands on an air test had crashed due to mechanical failure killing a pilot that had saved my life with his flying ability and four other friends.

6. September 11th... My then boss who is a complete idiot walked into my office laffing saying "hey, someone crashed an aircraft into the WTC"... As an ex flyer I knew that it was nearly impossible to do that by accident... I rushed and helped set up a TV and saw the second plane... The absolute saddest part about it... Both of my ex-bosses parents had been killed in the Swiss Air flight that was flown into the sea in the north east by the Islamist... and he still didn't "get" that first plane...

7. Driving to breakfast on a saturday morning and listening to Columbia re-entering the atmosphere on the radio... It should have been out of comms for 2 minutes (ish)... By 2 1/2 minutes I turned to wifey, (then sweetie), and said "They're dead"... She didn't believe me until 30 minutes later when it was announced officially...

I watched the second plane hit from 10-story building on Spring St. New York

Well, I believe I was just barely 14 and still living overseas. It was 10pm and I turned on the radio as I hopped into bed. They had said a plane just hit the WTC, so I went out and told my family. As soon as the Pentagon was hit, my dad (a marine) almost instantly had all of his TDY and Combat gear packed and was making calls to get his unit in order. I remember wondering how long he was going to be gone for.

I remember 9/11 very clearly, I was on my way back from a job interview (was made redundant a few months before) and I couldn't figure out what was going on from the radio. Got home and switched on the news to see it all. Just sat there with my mouth open.

I remember bits of the Falklands war (I was 5) quite clearly too, Exocets hitting the troop carriers.

Hey Hey,

I guess I pale in comparison... the things that are always vivid in my mind were always little things that had no real significance. That being said... I remember that for 9/11 I was sitting in my CCNA class in high school... one of the other teachers walked in and talked quietly to my teacher (We had the TV in our classroom at the time) and they turned it on and someone started channel surfing and found the news instantly... then people started pulling it up on CNN (I believe) and other websites...

Other than that my most significant memories are so small that they are these:

A) I can vividly remember sitting on a school bus in grade 8... shy little me... with two girls in my grade... the one girl didn't have her hair in a ponytail (which was the norm) and I commented and after I went to say "it looks better in a ponytail" instead I somehow said "ponytails are stupid"

B) I can remember being at my grandmothers shortly after her brother had died and my sister kept calling asking for my grandma in stupid voices... I was fed up (I was only like 12 or 13 at the time) and the next time the phone rang and I answered it and heard a raspy, shaky voice I yelled at her into the phone... then I realized it was my grandmothers brother's widow...

C) The day I found out my parents were seperating and everything that followed that day (New Years Eve)...

I guess those seem minor compared to what everyone else remembers... but there are a few "slightly" bigger things that I remember..

The Flames winning the Cup in 1989.
Richard Petty Retiring
Dale Earnhardt's death..

Oh well... I guess we all remember things for a reason..

Peace,
HT

In order, and how I remember them:

The Challenger exploding - I was in the 5th grade, getting ready to go on a big fancy field trip to the symphony. We ended up not going and watching the news coverage on TV all day. I was wearing a very pretty pink and white striped dress, and about halfway thru the day I threw up all over my dress, because I couldn't deal with the emotional turmoil of watching the coverage on TV all day.

9/11 - Had to be at work at 9, which meant I was sitting in my car at 8:46 smoking a cigarette before I went in, and listening to the radio. Heard the announcement on the news and ran in to check it on the computer. We spent about half the day listening to the news on the radio and then the hospital my bank was located in was completely evacuated due to a bomb threat. I left for the day and went and picked my son up - which is what I'd wanted to do all day, even though I knew there was absolutely no likelihood of any harm coming to him at his very small, out-in-the-woods daycare center in Florida. It wasn't easy explaining all of that to a 6 yr old.

I remember the Columbia Tragedy well since I am in Texas. Im not near the town that the shuttle actually went down in but I remember people from my town going there to help clean up debris. I was at my friends house spending the night and we had been lazy so we slept in til like 1pm. When we woke up I remember his mom had on CNN and they kept playing that part over and over where you see the shuttle pretty much explode. Weirdly enough I also remember the first "tribute" song to them. It was called "believe" by the country band Diamond Rio, and they played it alot there for a while.

I have had other big things I remember in life like my little's bro's birth in 1995, the OK City Bombing. Clinton's impeachment trial ( dont ask me why I remember that might have something to do with Monica Lewensky and her skills as a "hands on" Intern lol :) I remember the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000.

Also ,I remember growing up in the early 1990's and now thinking to myself I had alot less stress and things to worry about then than my little brother who is 11 now.

Ah yes, OK City. I was very pregnant with my son at that point, and it was another occasion I memorialized by throwing up. I was at my mother in laws house, watching it on TV, and when they got to the part about the daycare center in the building, I just lost it. Bad enough at any other time, but with the imminent birth of my child and the hormones flowing, I lost it.

I remember 911 clearly i had just got my son into school and i stop over my sister in laws when i seen it on the news i ran around to my house to tell my boyfriend about it and i just walk in the house and got a phone call that they are evacuating all phila schools and i had to be in work that night i was scare to go work.

I also remember these

January 1972 Nixon annouces the end of vietnam war i was standing on the corner when they posted it on a sign. I was 12 years old

Jan 5 1968 Robert kennedy shot i was 8 years old and seeing it on the news

April 4 1968 Martin Luther King it was the day after my birthday i was in the second grade and our teacher was telling us about it.

1972 the watergate scandal i was in the 6th grade and we had to watch the news my teacher was a Nixon fan

I don't know if anybody remembers this one

1979 the ABSCAM scandel - I was pregant with my second child and my neighbor was the one who at the time who rented them the room he was the hotel manager.

I could go on and on it's just strange how somethings you remember.