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camwynhere's the Where Were You When meme instead.
1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
As I was born in 1973: dividing.
Think about it.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
Mmh. . . I'd just turned six a little while before, so my best guess is that I was in kindergarten. If it was a Saturday I was probably cranky about cartoons being interrupted. I really don't remember. I know where I was and what I was doing when Reagan got shot, but I don't remember about the volcano.
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
At recess or lunch, I forget which, at Catholic school. There was an announcement from the principal that she'd just gotten a phone call from a girl who customarily walked half a block home at those times, who had the TV on at her house - all the announcement said was that we should pray for the astronauts on the space shuttle, because Eileen said there had been an accident. The idea that the thing might blow up never occurred to me. All I could think of was that something had jammed the bay doors open and they wouldn't be able to return home unless it was somehow fixed.
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
Uh. . . dunno. I was probably in class if it was a weekday. That'd be sophomore year of high school. Being in class was a good way not to see or hear about big things, really.
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
Again, high school, but I remember seeing this on the TV news when I came home.
6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
In school again, but I think I heard about it on the radio. I remember writing 'That was a really shitty thing to do' in the journal that I had to keep for AP English and handing it to my teacher. I didn't get reprimanded for use of profanity even though it was an all-girls Catholic high school. I think Mrs. O. felt that if you couldn't use profanity for an occasion like that, then there wasn't much you could say.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
Hell if I know. I didn't want to hear a damn thing about that case and managed to successfully avoid it almost all the way through to the end. Even wound up writing a paper for my international health class about domestic violence as a world health issue without mentioning the man's name. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown, yes, but not the guy in the Bronco.
8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
At a computer lab at Case Western Reserve University, I think - either that or in my dorm room. I'm pretty sure I was at the lab in the medical school, though. I believe it occurred during my work hours between classes. I logged onto FurryMUCK to see if anyone knew anything about it - figured there'd be enough people in the Park that someone would have access to a television and be able to relay information. I remember someone making a comment about Arabs, and I remember snapping at him that Oklahoma City was so far into the country that it couldn't be Arabs, it was probably White supremacist territory. (I'd just read The Postman, so the idea was on my mind.) Lord, I hate it when I'm right.
9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
Visiting my grandparents in Florida. Didn't really care much.
10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
At home in New Jersey. I remember waking up and kind of blinking because I could hear my mom watching TV news downstairs, which she never does in the morning. I went downstairs and asked if we had a President yet and she said no, not really. . .
11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
Er? I don't rightly know, but I was probably at work.
12. When terrorists knocked over the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
Installing a service pack to my office's fundraising manager's McAfee Antivirus, and then in the Board of Directors meeting room watching the events on TV, and then calling people on the West Coast and telling them to wake up and turn on the TV. And then going out to my car to get my disaster shirt on, because I had to go into Manhattan.
1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
As I was born in 1973: dividing.
Think about it.
2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
Mmh. . . I'd just turned six a little while before, so my best guess is that I was in kindergarten. If it was a Saturday I was probably cranky about cartoons being interrupted. I really don't remember. I know where I was and what I was doing when Reagan got shot, but I don't remember about the volcano.
3. When the space shuttle Challenger exploded (1/28/1986)
At recess or lunch, I forget which, at Catholic school. There was an announcement from the principal that she'd just gotten a phone call from a girl who customarily walked half a block home at those times, who had the TV on at her house - all the announcement said was that we should pray for the astronauts on the space shuttle, because Eileen said there had been an accident. The idea that the thing might blow up never occurred to me. All I could think of was that something had jammed the bay doors open and they wouldn't be able to return home unless it was somehow fixed.
4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
Uh. . . dunno. I was probably in class if it was a weekday. That'd be sophomore year of high school. Being in class was a good way not to see or hear about big things, really.
5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
Again, high school, but I remember seeing this on the TV news when I came home.
6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
In school again, but I think I heard about it on the radio. I remember writing 'That was a really shitty thing to do' in the journal that I had to keep for AP English and handing it to my teacher. I didn't get reprimanded for use of profanity even though it was an all-girls Catholic high school. I think Mrs. O. felt that if you couldn't use profanity for an occasion like that, then there wasn't much you could say.
7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
Hell if I know. I didn't want to hear a damn thing about that case and managed to successfully avoid it almost all the way through to the end. Even wound up writing a paper for my international health class about domestic violence as a world health issue without mentioning the man's name. Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown, yes, but not the guy in the Bronco.
8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
At a computer lab at Case Western Reserve University, I think - either that or in my dorm room. I'm pretty sure I was at the lab in the medical school, though. I believe it occurred during my work hours between classes. I logged onto FurryMUCK to see if anyone knew anything about it - figured there'd be enough people in the Park that someone would have access to a television and be able to relay information. I remember someone making a comment about Arabs, and I remember snapping at him that Oklahoma City was so far into the country that it couldn't be Arabs, it was probably White supremacist territory. (I'd just read The Postman, so the idea was on my mind.) Lord, I hate it when I'm right.
9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
Visiting my grandparents in Florida. Didn't really care much.
10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
At home in New Jersey. I remember waking up and kind of blinking because I could hear my mom watching TV news downstairs, which she never does in the morning. I went downstairs and asked if we had a President yet and she said no, not really. . .
11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
Er? I don't rightly know, but I was probably at work.
12. When terrorists knocked over the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
Installing a service pack to my office's fundraising manager's McAfee Antivirus, and then in the Board of Directors meeting room watching the events on TV, and then calling people on the West Coast and telling them to wake up and turn on the TV. And then going out to my car to get my disaster shirt on, because I had to go into Manhattan.
