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Post by Cvslfc123 on Dec 11, 2019 8:51:37 GMT -5
9/11
I was 9 years old when it happened. I live in the UK so it was around 2:30 pm here when I found out about it. I remember I'd left school early because I had a dentist appointment. I got into the car and my Mum told me two planes had crashed into the World Trade centre and one of the buildings had collapsed. Then I remember my dentist stressing out because her husband or brother worked at Canary Wharf which has some of the tallest buildings in London.
It was a surreal day, I remember the news channels repeatedly showed footage of the 2nd plane hitting and a fire engine rushing towards the towers. It was definitely the first world changing event of my life. I visited New York and Ground Zero in 2008 and it was just surreal standing in a spot where one of the worst things to happen in the world took place that it sill hasn't fully recovered from.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Dec 11, 2019 9:57:10 GMT -5
I remember a few that I will do later, but the strangest one might be being in 7th grade, and the teacher wheeling in a tv so we could watch the O.J. verdict.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 11, 2019 10:09:09 GMT -5
I remember a few that I will do later, but the strangest one might be being in 7th grade, and the teacher wheeling in a tv so we could watch the O.J. verdict. I was in 8th grade but our school did the exact same thing. In retrospect it's like why? It was a huuuge deal at the time but it wasn't something that direct impacted millions.
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Post by Sephiroth on Dec 11, 2019 12:08:36 GMT -5
Honestly, the OJ chase is the first moment of my life that I remember exactly where I was. It was my last day of 4th grade. Mom picked us up, went to Toys r Us because I had a great report card, got home and instead of cartoons, every channel was just covering that damn car chase. Columbian was the next, mostly because I was a 15 year old goth pot head who cut school that day(4/20). The next day at school was the first time literally EVERYONE was nice to me. The verdict for me. I was in jr high. We had just come back from lunch and they actually delayed class so we could watch the decision being delivered.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 11, 2019 14:25:31 GMT -5
hmm i'm usually in front of my tv screen AT THE BEST OF TIMES ..... and the news is pretty much the second most thing i watch! and i started that in the seventies so the likes of elvis presley, the shuttle program and the general space stuff, disasters ..... i was in school when they flew the prototype shuttle on the jumbo into glasgow airport, and took pictures of concord there too! got up at my usual time ie AFTER twelve, turned tv on ..... TWIN TOWERS IN FLAMES ..... watched it as much as i could for a week! i've gone back to it a few times again watching the archived full news coverage gulf war 1 i spent a month staying up all night glued to my screen stayed up late to see haleys comet up close and personal it was my late dad that came into the living room from the kitchen, he always had the radio on, and said the shuttle has exploded!!! i was on a bus going to a training program and heard about the horror of dunblane ..... when iran went back to being iran and the london embassy siege the berlin wall being broken up for paving all sorts of things sitting in my chair
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Post by Fade on Dec 11, 2019 15:51:18 GMT -5
I suppose it was watching channel 5 with my babysitter as a kid when the “breaking news” came on to report the death of Princess Diana.
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Post by nickcave on Dec 11, 2019 15:56:10 GMT -5
Definitely 9/11 although I didn't process the ramifications of it until I noticed every channel was broadcasting the news that evening because I was an eight year old
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Post by ERON on Dec 11, 2019 16:19:25 GMT -5
I remember coming back from music class in 4th grade and being informed by my homeroom teacher that the Challenger had exploded. My school must have been one of the few that didn't show the launch live, because most people my age remember watching it as it happened, but I didn't actually get to see the footage until it was shown on the evening news later.
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 11, 2019 16:22:28 GMT -5
Princess Diana's death. I'd just come back from holiday in Spain and overheard it in a shop.
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Post by Cyno on Dec 11, 2019 16:28:09 GMT -5
9/11, Junior year history class of high school. It was heightened by being in New Jersey and only about 45 minutes-1 hour away from Manhattan. Lot of people around here lost family, friends, or loved ones in the attacks.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 16:35:43 GMT -5
9/11. I was going in 5th grade I believe but I went to school in Manhatthan. When you walk to the school building you can see the Twin Towers.
We were in class and you noticed a lot of parents over like the last hour coming to pick up their kids. I want to say like 30 mins later they told us what was going on in the auditorium and we all had to go straight home. I couldn't get home because I lived in the Bronx and at that point I didn't know my walking way home. Luckily my cousin I went to school with too and I stayed with him. I just remember coming out of school and turning the corner and seeing nothing but black smoke where the twin towers were
That whole thing actually lead to me getting a cellphone the next year in 6th grade. My mom couldn't get in touch with me and had no clue where I was as she was stuck on the train and the phone lines were f***ed up. Eventually she found out I was at my cousin house and came to get me the next day
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Post by Toilet Paper Roll on Dec 11, 2019 16:45:57 GMT -5
The Challenger explosion. I was in 4th grade, and all the classes were going to go to the cafeteria to watch the launch. My class was late because when Ms. Lott had us line up at the door, a couple of kids started kinda-fighting and delayed us. I can remember we were turning down the hall, still in formation, and as we were coming around the corner, another teacher in tears ran past us. We were stopped and sent back to the classroom. Same but I was in first grade. We had a bad flu bug going around school and they had asked most kids showing signs to stay home. I remember staying home that day. I was in the living room sitting on the couch and my mother was in her bedroom vacuuming. Being six I didn’t know much in the way of space travel but I did remember the buildup in school. The teacher aboard was from a town a few miles south of mine. I remember telling my mother it blew up and she told me how bad that was to say and then showing her and thinking I did something wrong because she was genuinely shocked.
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Post by chrom on Dec 11, 2019 16:50:32 GMT -5
The death of Muhammad Ali.
Went to the gym to work out and turned on one of the TVs they had on there to watch ESPN and they showed his face and his date of birth and date of death.
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Post by Rican on Dec 11, 2019 16:51:25 GMT -5
Princess Di death. I woke up really early that day and my mom was watching TV all about the news.
I vaguely remember the OJ case being a thing but not really the Bronco chase or the verdict.
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Post by salz4life on Dec 11, 2019 17:06:35 GMT -5
the first one I remember is The Challenger as well..... I was 7 years old, but was at home for some reason (sick maybe, I don't remember) and I watched it live on TV and remember being horrified.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 11, 2019 17:59:07 GMT -5
9/11, sophomore year religion class (catholic high school) I remember hearing about bad news events before that from OKC (1995, so I was 9) probably at the earliest to Columbine, but not in a "remembering where I was" sort of way. After the Challenger Disaster and the Chernobyl Disaster, I was thinking about huge moments that resonated to me in the following years: - Tienanmen Square protests (1989) - Berlin Wall deconstruction (also 1989) - Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991) - OKC Bombing (1995) - Columbine (1999), which sadly is no longer a shocking national event - 9/11, of course - Katrina, mainly because it highlighted the utter incompetence in dealing with said issue for decades. Obviously, there are tons of natural disasters globally that deserve to be recognized, but I seriously doubt there are many Americans that remember where they were when they learned of many of them (if they learned of them at all).
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Post by Chainsaw on Dec 11, 2019 18:03:48 GMT -5
The Challenger explosion. I was in 4th grade, and all the classes were going to go to the cafeteria to watch the launch. My class was late because when Ms. Lott had us line up at the door, a couple of kids started kinda-fighting and delayed us. I can remember we were turning down the hall, still in formation, and as we were coming around the corner, another teacher in tears ran past us. We were stopped and sent back to the classroom. Same here I was in 6th grade I think. Our teacher had brought her tiny portable tv. Took us forever to get a channel tuned in and then seeing the shuttle explode was shocking. Same here. We had everything set up through the school to watch NBC live, and when it happened, it was chaos. I loved space and space exploration at the time, my dad even made us a giant wooden shuttle that I loved. I was trying to convince myself that there was a chance that they could have somehow survived it, but... It really was crushing. It was the moment like the Kennedy assassination earlier, and 9/11 later. It shook you out of a dream, and made you realize that life wasn't perfect, and that things might not actually be fine.
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Post by 4real on Dec 11, 2019 18:09:53 GMT -5
Princess Diana’s death is the first big moment I can remember really. My sister was watching Nickelodeon downstairs in our lounge early in the morning (pretty sure it was a Sunday) and there was a notice at the bottom of the screen saying ‘For important news please tune in to Sky News’. I told my sister to change the channel since it must be important and there it was. Went upstairs and my Mum was crying watching the news.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Dec 11, 2019 18:21:07 GMT -5
Ok, here we go:
9-11: Freshman year of college. Didn't have class until 2pm. Woke up to chaos because my college was literally down the road from Pittsburgh's airport, and there were (false) reports that a plane was hijacked out of there.
Columbine: I was in 10th grade. Very scary, but at the time, it was unheard of. A friend of mine who moved from Colorado had friends there, and she would have gone to Columbine if she still lived there.
O.J. verdict: Already said, in class in 7th grade.
Oklahoma City: Sitting in my kitchen eating when breaking news came on.
O.J. chase: Visiting my aunt and uncle in Ocala, Florida.
Phil Hartman: Again, eating in my kitchen after school when the news broke. Devastated.
Chris Benoit: I was dating a girl, and she wanted to go out that Monday night. I hadn't heard anything about him no-showing the ppv. So I figure I wouldn't miss anything big, so I miss Raw and the tribute show. I wake up Tuesday to see the headlines online and a few news channels covering it. My mind was blown.
Owen Hart: In 10th grade, watching the ppv with my mom and sister. Very shocking and sad. Nobody talked about anything else in school the next day.
Berlin Wall: Not really sure. I was six, and my uncle was in the army and stationed in Germany a lot of the time. I think we might have been at a party at his house when he was back home.
Challenger: I was, three, I think. No recollection of this one.
Desert Storm: I was in second grade, I think. We made all kinds of red, white, and blue things and yellow ribbons. We had one guy from my town killed in a scud attack.
Princess Di: On my way back from an amusement park. News came on she was in a car accident and in grave condition. The news on tv later said she passed away. Haven't been back to that park since weirdly enough.
Kennedy assassination: My dad was five, and my mom was seven months old. 😁
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 11, 2019 18:42:09 GMT -5
Same here I was in 6th grade I think. Our teacher had brought her tiny portable tv. Took us forever to get a channel tuned in and then seeing the shuttle explode was shocking. Same here. We had everything set up through the school to watch NBC live, and when it happened, it was chaos. I loved space and space exploration at the time, my dad even made us a giant wooden shuttle that I loved. I was trying to convince myself that there was a chance that they could have somehow survived it, but... It really was crushing. It was the moment like the Kennedy assassination earlier, and 9/11 later. It shook you out of a dream, and made you realize that life wasn't perfect, and that things might not actually be fine. It is what made me not want to be an astronaut,which I had wanted to be since I was very young. But oddly is part of the reason why my older cousin now works for NASA.
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