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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