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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 9:26:41 GMT
Forty years ago today the first man walked on the moon. Where were you?
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Post by tillystar on Jul 20, 2009 9:34:13 GMT
I was still a twinkle
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 11:39:52 GMT
I saw it on television in California. When the Europeans talk about having seen it on television, they are much more heroic, because they had to get up and watch it in the middle of the night.
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Post by gyllenhaalic on Jul 20, 2009 14:40:12 GMT
We still have, somewhere, a TV Guide with notes all over it that my mom made during the landing. The date, times of whatever was occurring, the astronauts' names, what they said and all kinds of stuff. At the time, I was a 21-year old college student on summer break from West Virginia University.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 20, 2009 15:54:19 GMT
I was in Tucson getting ready to get married in August. I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't think any of us got a wink of sleep. We virtually camped out in the living room.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 17:23:00 GMT
Same as Tilly, wasn't even a twinkle in my papa's eyes.
I wonder if anyone will be celebrating this milestone?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 17:37:20 GMT
And in 2012, will we celebrate "40 years since the last person set foot on the moon"?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 20:45:58 GMT
That's a good observation K.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 20, 2009 21:19:32 GMT
I saw it on television in California. When the Europeans talk about having seen it on television, they are much more heroic, because they had to get up and watch it in the middle of the night. I woke up during the night & watched Charles & Diana's wedding on tv. Am I a heroine?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2009 21:28:40 GMT
Jeez, you need therapy.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 21, 2009 1:11:44 GMT
Honestly, I was so busy with wedding that hardly remember it. However, there was another landmark here in the US that I totally remember exactly where I was, and that was When JFK was assassinated. I was sitting in my English Literature class as a Sophomore in high school when they announced over the PA system that he had been assassinated and and died.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 21, 2009 2:05:51 GMT
I was probably mucking about in short pants Wadi Jizan, Saudi Arabia. I was 5 and I don't remember a single thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 2:33:07 GMT
I was in high school and I remember I had a girlfriend over and we were sneaking cigarettes when my mother came downstairs and busted us. We watched the landing but my friend Wendy was so worried that her parents were going to find out about us smoking.(They never did).
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 21, 2009 5:05:17 GMT
Sneaking cigarettes!Yeah, I emember I also got worried sometimes.
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 21, 2009 5:58:57 GMT
Forty years ago today the first man walked on the moon. Where were you? I was still behind the mood
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Post by tillystar on Jul 21, 2009 8:14:16 GMT
You’d certainly give my Mum a run for her money! We never, ever watched TV as a kid, it was kept on a high shelf and rarely got down but I remember her being glued to the TV the day John Lennon was shot and also Charles and Diana’s wedding. She kept telling us to watch and banging on about history while we rolled our eyes and jumped on the sofa.
The most amazing peice of "where were you when...? I know is that my Great grandma told my Mum that her Great Aunty had been a servant in a big house and one day the cook came into the kitchen with the daily papers that had been delivered and sat down to the table in shock saying “Oh my God they have killed the Queen, the Queen of France is dead”.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 10:57:56 GMT
That is so fascinating Tilly. I had access to my paternal Grandmother's diary. Much of it was in Polish. I ended up doing a paper for school on it. In it are descriptions of episodes of the local KKK burning crosses on the lawn of the farm property. The Polish and Irish immigrants were very not welcome there. People associate the KKK with the South and Afro-Americans. This was in NY in the late 1890's. (Slightly off topic but your post triggered this early a.m. memory)
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Post by livaco on Jul 21, 2009 14:02:59 GMT
I was almost four for the moon landing. It is one of my earliest memories, all of us kids gathered around the tv at my grandpa's house. We went there for any major tv events (and for football games) because he had a big tv and it was color instead of b&w.
I wasn't alive for JFK assassination, but I'd say nowadays the biggest event in the US where everyone remembers where they were etc. was the 9-11 terrorist attacks. (Everyone over about 11 years old that is... It doesn't seem that long ago, but none of my students now remember it.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 21, 2009 14:39:10 GMT
Wow, Tilly! My brain didn't get in gear until I read your post twice, then I suddenly realized who that queen was. Gave me cold chills! I never knew that about the hateful treatment of the Polish immigrants, Casimira. Also did not realize that the Irish were still being persecuted in the late 1800s. Thinking back, I must have seen the moon landing on tv in California, as well. I remember my grandfather saying later that it could very well have all been faked in the studio. (He was a WWI veteran and fairly cynical about anything to do with the government.) To be perfectly honest, the space program has never captured my attention or imagination. I know it's all stunning achievements and all significant, but it just doesn't do it for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 17:24:38 GMT
I did see Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV. It was a very interesting moment. I don't think there are a whole lot of cases where somebody was killed unexpectedly right in front of a television camera.
(I am sure that lots of official executions have been shown on TV, however.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 21, 2009 17:57:55 GMT
It's amazing that the second I read your first sentence above, I could immediately see that famous photo of Ruby and Oswald in my mind's eye. How long did it take for you to accept the reality of what had happened?
I imagine that, for sheer volume of viewers, the 2nd plane striking the Twin Towers was probably the most spontaneously viewed bit of history ever.
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Post by livaco on Jul 21, 2009 17:59:02 GMT
I don't think there are a whole lot of cases where somebody was killed unexpectedly right in front of a television camera. I'd say when the plane flew into the second WTC tower could qualify. Lots of people were watching, and saw that happen live.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 21, 2009 18:00:24 GMT
Great minds, Livaco, great minds. We must have posted at the same time.
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Post by livaco on Jul 21, 2009 18:00:35 GMT
OK, I hadn't seen bix's post when I posted.
Second time today something like that happened..
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Post by livaco on Jul 21, 2009 18:01:06 GMT
Third time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2009 18:01:35 GMT
It all happened really fast, so what got one's attention was the TV reporter shrieking "He's been shot! He's been shot!" and seeing Oswald collapse to the ground while the police grabbed Ruby.
They probably cut to a commercial for Tide or Shake'n'Bake a few minutes later.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 22, 2009 2:37:35 GMT
9-11. I was getting ready to go to work. I remember Kirk calling me into the living room and seeing the second plane hit. It was like slow motion and I just stood there, looking at the screen, looking at him, looking back at the screen without saying a word.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 3:28:45 GMT
It's a sign you need to come see us more often livaco! We need you to start us up another song game so we can kick the guys butts like we did last time. We have a new upstart from Canada who may give us a run though ,so it has to be tough.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 22, 2009 14:13:54 GMT
9/11 - I was standing with my then fiance at the Bedlinen counter at John Lewis. It was early afternoon. Suddenly there was consternation amongst those serving us. I asked what was wrong and was told that a helicopter/plane had flown into a skyscraper in New York. My first thought was that a sight-seeing plane with tourists in it had hit a building by a mistake.
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Post by livaco on Jul 22, 2009 14:40:21 GMT
It's a sign you need to come see us more often livaco! We need you to start us up another song game so we can kick the guys butts like we did last time. We have a new upstart from Canada who may give us a run though ,so it has to be tough. I will try to think of a game. In the meantime, if anyone starts one, I will play... Sorry casimira for not responding to your pm. By the time I read it, it seemed too late. Who is the upstart from Canada? OK everyone, sorry for the thread jack!
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