JFK was before my time and while not feeding on the moon like RIJ I was certainly crapping some diapers.
I was home & watching TV when Reagan was shot.
Was listening to AFN when the announced the Beirut Marines in 83
The Challenger explosion I have a vague recollection of watching it live after school was out but we were in one of the science rooms (the same rooms we would test Chernobyl fallout a couple months later)
Between Challenger and Chernobyl was El Dorado Canyon. By the time the school buses got on base day was half over.
9/11 - I was home that day, my wife called me into the living room to see the TV after the first plane hit. I had my 10 month old son on my shoulder burping when the second plane hit. That is when I stated we were at war.
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The seminal event for my parent's generation was Pearl Harbor. Everyone in that time remembered where they were when they heard about it.
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Ours is clearly 9/11 and hopefully that remains the high water mark of disasters against us.
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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.
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Phil - no recollections of the CMC but my dad was on the USS Essex at the time and told a few stories.
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My Mom told me I was breast feeding while she watched Armstrong take his first step.
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Sucks you don't remember
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I get strangely hungry whenever I look at the moon?
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