Lesee:
Kennedy assination: wasn't born yet.
Challenger explosion, 1986. It was the start of my 2nd semester of college. I had a Tuesday morning class, and was supposed to have a lab class in the afternoon, but that was canceled, so I went home. I got home about 11:25 am EST, flipped on the TV, and saw that the news was covering the shuttle launch. I remember saying to myself, "cool, I can see the launch."
9/11/01: I was working for Lockheed Martin at the time. I was searching the internet for a rack cabinet for a project I was working on, when the internet "died." I couldn't get anything. Then I overheard someone say, "A plane crashed into the World Trade Center." Then I heard, "No way!" I knew that one technician upstairs in the lab had a small TV, so I figured I'd go check things out. I couldn't get to the internet anyway, so off I went. By the time I got up to the lab, there were about twenty people crowded around a 5 inch TV. We watched as the second plane hit, and then heard word about a plane hitting the Pentagon. People were just mulling around. No work was getting done, and managers didn't really care. I watched for a little over 2 hours straight. Lunchtime came, and it seemed that people stayed together in groups. My wife was inaccessible via phone except for a true emergency, so there was no need to try and get to her. I knew she would call at some point, or that I'd see her at home. She called about 2:30 pm, and we both asked each other if we were okay. All I remember saying is "all those people" (at the time, the death estimates were from 10,000 to 20,000 people). I got home, and put a blank tape in each VCR (I had two), and started recording CNN and a local news channel. I still have those tapes.
Columbia disintegration, 2003. I woke up about 6:30 am - 7 am and went downstairs. My wife had woken earlier and was downstairs with the TV on to CNN. CNN was talking about it, saying it was "overdue," etc. Then they had a reporter from KSC, and that there were some people waiting for it at the landing strip. I remember saying to my wife, "Bummer if you were there waiting for it."
for lack of a dead splatted on the ground smiley this my turkey attempting to fly by using his tail feathers instead of his wings. PSST ...dont tell him but they are not the brightest birds.