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Originally Posted by Mike P
The seminal event for my parent's generation was Pearl Harbor. Everyone in that time remembered where they were when they heard about it.
My generation has several. JFK's assassination was the first. The moon landing. Challenger exploding. And 9/11. I can remember all 4 down to the last detail even now.
I watched that one small step from the living room of our summer place in So. Plymouth on a fuzzy B&W portable. The whole family gathered to watch it. Mom, dad, my sister and two sets of aunts and uncles.
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Same here but I'd also add Adli Stevenson's UN "Hell Freezes Over" speech to Valerian Zorin (Russian ambassador to UN) during the Cuban missile crisis. Would come home from elementary school and be glued to the B&W watching what was about to happen as I needed to know whether to take hiding under my school desk drills seriously or not in case of nuclear war!
http://www.yourtowntube.com/video/17...n-Princeton-22
For some strange reason I also remember hearing over the radio that Rocky Marciano had died in a plane crash....in Iowa? Coincidence: I now live in the house in which he lived while World Champ....and I was born in IA!