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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 03:21 PM
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Great topic SC! I was just a tot when Kennedy was killed, so I really don't remember. I do remember being in my aunts kitchen when Armstrong made his first step on the moon. I also remember that we were in the middle of getting gasoline at a gas station when the blackout of 1979 (or was it 1978?)happened. As for September 11th, well I know that you are very familiar with my story. But for those who may be new here, I'll post a link to it : http://www.gangsterbb.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=6;t=000087;p=0 Don Cardi
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 03:27 PM
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DC, I had never read your account...Dear God!
As one of the older members, I was at Chaminade High School in Hollywood, Fla heading for a Friday Pep rally. The Principal came to the mike and said the president had been shot. There was a gasp and dead silence. He told us to go back to our classrooms, and they turned on the school speaker system, and we listened to the news that he had been killed. We all said a prayer and were dismissed from school. The sheer horror of thinking a thing like that could happen in America back then was beyond belief. In my life nothing has come close except for 9/11.
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 03:28 PM
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8th grade math class at Lefferts JHS (61), Empire Blvd. and New York Ave.
Mr. Walters was the teacher. First reports were that the shots came from the grassy knoll.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 03:45 PM
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My memory is pathetic - I don't remember what I was doing for anything! I actually slept through 9/11.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 04:08 PM
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Sorry, but I was one and a half when JFK was shot. I do remember the first shuttle explosion in 1986. I was at home, recovering from surgery (a seemingly common occurence in my household ) and I saw it happen live. The second shuttle explosion, I was at my best friend's mother's funeral. When John Lennon was shot, I was still in college. We all went to a friend's house and turned on the radio to listen to the reports (why not the TV? Not sure). Then we smoked pot and ordered Chinese food. As for September 11th, I was at a marketing committee meeting of my local United Way when the first reports came in. We broke up the meeting and I was listening to the radio as I drove back to my office. That's when the first tower fell. When I got back to my office, we watched the skyline from our conference room. I just remember thinking that the horrible plume of smoke looked like someone had nuked Manhattan. I was never quite able to look out that conference room window again.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 04:11 PM
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Originally posted by Sicilian Babe: Then we smoked pot and ordered Chinese food. I'd bet that that could be the closing line in describing quite a number of your youthful experiences.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 04:43 PM
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I remember the Columbine school shootings, I had just come home from school (4th or 5th grade, I forget), and I was mad because I wanted to watch cartoons but all they had was the coverage. For those who live in the DC area, there was the day some guy shot up the Capitol and was on the loose. I remember being 6 to 8 years old, by myself at home. I locked all the doors and went under my bed til my mom came home . On 9/11, I was at school. The doors were locked and we played games and stuff. For those in the DC area, we can all remember the horror of the sniper rampage. I remember being in middle school, and running home everyday. I also remember the guardian angels (the dudes in red jackets) filling up the gas tanks when we needed gas. Thanks to them, it made the situation easier. :p
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 04:48 PM
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Originally posted by Sicilian Babe: When John Lennon was shot, I was still in college. We all went to a friend's house and turned on the radio to listen to the reports (why not the TV? Not sure). Then we smoked pot and ordered Chinese food.
What? No ice cream?
"Io sono stanco, sono imbigliato, and I wan't everyone here to know, there ain't gonna be no trouble from me..Don Corleone..Cicc' a port!"
"I stood in the courtroom like a fool."
"I am Constanza: Lord of the idiots."
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:01 PM
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JFK- I was in 10th grade, 5th period English class. They turned the P.A. system on as we listened to them announce that the President was shot in Dallas. Silence fell across the entire room. I saw a teary eyed teacher (Mrs. Bergstrom)and couldn't help but get teary myself. The bus ride home, for the most part was silent...except for one very "outspoken" kid who proceeded to say, "They should have shot him again & again & again, as far as I'm concerned." I'm sure a reflection of his politics and perhaps influenced by his parents, I don't know, but I wanted to strangle him. I always wonder if he remembers that. Just a couple years earlier, during his campaign, I saw him in person, sitting on top of the back seat (in the open)in a convertible motorcade, drive right by the Catholic School I had attended. The nuns were overjoyed to have a potential Catholic President, and each teacher of the very small school, took the classes to the corner to wave at JFK as he drove by. I'll never forget it. 911 stands out of course very vividly in my mind. It was early here, and out of habit I turned on the news right when I wake up. The first tower was hit and appeared to be an accident. I saw the second plane hit, and everyone knew then it was much more than an accident. Left me in a daze the entire day, much like the JFK assassination, only with many many more lives lost. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:09 PM
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Originally posted by Patrick: Somewhere in my dad's prostate gland... Someone needs to take biology... :p
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:15 PM
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Well Patrick, what my parents would tell me when we were talking about things before my time....."you were just a gleam in your father's eye." I remember a few years back (before 911), on another JFK Assassination anniversary, asking my daughters if anything similar stands out in their minds, that they thought they'd remember.....they said the Challenger disaster. They were in school and watched coverage on tv. I would guess today for everyone old enough, it'd have to be 911. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:18 PM
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Originally posted by J Geoff: [quote]Originally posted by Patrick: [b] Somewhere in my dad's prostate gland... Someone needs to take biology... :p [/b][/quote]You mean, I didn't come from my father's gland that controls the of urine and secretes the liquid found in semen?
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:21 PM
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I was a lil' Snake in my crib when JFK got shot. But I do recall where I was and what I was doing when. . . Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Jim Jones basically killed over 900 people in his cult. America withdrew from Saigon. Skynyrd's plane crashed. Elvis kicked the bucket. Reagan was shot. Lennon was shot. The space shuttle (Challenger) blew up. The O.J. verdict was read. 9-11-01. Reagan died. Stay tuned. . .
"Vaya con Dios, Castle. Go with God." "God's going to sit this one out." The Punisher (2004)
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 05:40 PM
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Originally posted by long_lost_corleone: You mean, I didn't come from my father's gland that controls the [stream] of urine and secretes the liquid found in semen? No, you didn't. The prostate secretes a component of semen, but, sperm itself comes from the testes. :p
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey! lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 06:04 PM
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I was in high school and 9/11 was just a bizarre day. I was in my German class early. Out of the hall a kid ran up and said the World Trade Center had been hit. This was around 9:25 AM.
I turned and looked at a couple kids in my class and the general consensus was "Oh, shit." I remember this kid Alex saying "This is one of the most important parts of America, like the White House, Congress-" and this dumb girl said "And me!" We just glared at her.
The teacher refused to believe it. He thought it was a joke and refused to turn the TV. There were TVs in every class room.
It wasn't until my English class, where an antenna had been rigged up, that I was able to see or learn anything. All we saw was smoke and I remember looking at it and thinking. All I said was "Where are the towers?"
I skipped lunch and ran over to the only room with cable TV. (Side note, this teacher had a room next to the AV room and had maintenance run a line into his room years earlier) And I just sat and watched. In the rest of my classes we just watched TV, trying to know as much as we could.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 06:26 PM
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Originally posted by J Geoff: [quote]Originally posted by long_lost_corleone: [b]You mean, I didn't come from my father's gland that controls the [stream] of urine and secretes the liquid found in semen? No, you didn't. The prostate secretes a component of semen, but, sperm itself comes from the testes. :p [/b][/quote]I think you misunderstood me, Geoff. That was sarcasm. :p For bragging rights, I passed bio with a 92! Foo'.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 07:44 PM
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9/11 is the main historical event that I remember actually experiencing in my lifetime. I was in 7th grade, and I heard the first reports on the radio as I rode to school with my mom and cousin. I heard more in 1st period Band class from my teacher, and my mom picked me up from school a few classes later. I spent the rest of the day reading, watching, and listening to all the media reports, gradually realizing the dire significance of it all. One other event that came to mind was when John Glenn became the oldest person to go into space. It was in 1998, which fits, because I remember I was in 4th grade. I recall that my mom told me about him in the morning, before I went to school, then our teacher either told us about it or showed us it on TV, and I was so proud that I'd already known about it.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/22/05 10:16 PM
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And who could forget the following Sunday, just two days after JFK's assassination, watching Oswald's murder as it happened. I remember all the on-screen turmoil, with cameras moving, newscasters all hyped up and another dose of disbelief for the nation. Thinking back now, Ruby seemed to very easily glide thru the crowd of people, no??? Boy, were we naive. TIS
"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." JFK
"War is over, if you want it" - John Lennon
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/23/05 12:12 AM
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9/11 is still new, so of course I remember every detail about that day. But even when it's not so new anymore, I doubt I'll ever forget a single thing about it. I was still at home when I found out because it was around 6. When I got to school, we had an assembly in the courtyard where the dean told us the details, and we sang the National Anthem. Then we went to our classrooms and watched the news, and were allowed to leave anytime we wanted. For once, no one rushed to leave school... we all stayed for around an hour or so, sitting around, watching the news, and talking about it, still stunned.
Another "news at school" time was during the OJ trial. We watched the news in my history class every day from the day both sides rested, until the day the verdict was read. It took about two weeks, give or take. I was in 5th or 6th grade, and my history teacher told us, "This is history too, except we get to live it." So it took the place of our lesson. Very exciting times.
I also remember where I was about a year and a half before the verdict, that fateful day when a certain freeway chase ended up being a little different from all the others. Every channel you'd flip to had that white Bronco, even during Game 5 of the NBA finals!! Poor Knicks, though. They made it that far, won game 5, and everyone was watching a football player drive down the 405 freeway instead. No wonder they didn't make it that year. Sorry if that was a sore spot for any NYers. :p
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/23/05 01:13 AM
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Kennedy-I was only 4 so I didn't really understand what was going on, but I remember the adults crying. The image I remember for some reason is the funeral-the riderless horse with the boots turned backward in the stirrups and Kennedy's son saluting. And my parents still have newspapers and magazines from then.
Moon landing-we were at a picnic and they were listening to it on the radio and when they landed the adults all broke into spontaneous applause. I also remember when the first Apollo crew was killed in a fire in 1967. We were in second grade and the teachers were all crying.
911-woke up to get ready for work, listening to NPR, they broke in to say that a small plane had crashed into the tower. An accident, I thought. Went by my parents house on my way to work just in time to see the second plane hit and my dad told me there were other planes not responding to orders. Went to work in a state of confusion, knowing we were going to be at war but not knowing how this day would end. We didn't do any work, just watched it on TV in a state of shock and dismay.
Hurricane Katrina-still living through this one, my life and the lives of thousands of others will be divided by August 29, 2005. What is strange is that being in it and not having power is not seeing anything on tv until the third or fourth day when it was getting real bad in the city. We only had the radio, people looking for people, nothing but bad news. Then going down and seeing it for yourself, it is unreal.
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Re: Where Were You When...... ?
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11/23/05 06:00 AM
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When JKF was murdered I was just a little child, but I clearly remember when the TV announced it with a special edition of the news. Even if I was so little I knew who JFK was because my older sister was a great fan of him and of course I was a great fan of him too 'cause my sister was my idol and if she said he was good and attractive he surely was! JFK was a living legend for young generations all over the world and he was regarded with special affection here in Italy because he was the first Catholic to become President of the USA. When Robert Kennedy was shot and then died I was in primary school and I remember I cried because I was sure he would have been the new US President and I wanted so much it to happen. I loved him because he was handsome (much more handsome than his brother) and because he had so many children! When Pope John XXIII died I was at home watching television and they interrupted the programs and I was so sad (because I was watching a movie and I liked it! ) When Pope John Paul II was shot on 13th May 1981, I was attending my Sociology class at the Catholic University Maria Santissima Assunta, very close to the Vatican. They gave us the news and we all prayed "Our father who art in heaven". On 9/11 I was working at my office. It was about 15, 15.30 and I was at my PC when I came across the news. I immediately turned the TV on and watched the horrible scenes. I couldn't believe what was going on. At first I thought it was an accident, then it was clear that it was a terror attack. My way back home seemed to be the longest journey I ever had. I was quite sure the terrorists were going to do something similar here too and that very night I thought, well, at least I'm with my family. A real shock that was to last in the days to come.
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