Where were you on November 22, 1963?

My earliest memories that I'm sure of as originating with me are of standing up in my crib looking across the room and out the front windows of my grandmother's house. Dad and Mom lived in the one room up on the third floor after selling the house in Philly. I make it to be around

1952 and I would have been three. Gramma watched me during the day whilst the parents worked. We eventually moved out to a farm where we just rented one end of a long farmhouse. The building still stands but was made into apartments years ago.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller
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on 11/16/2007 1:15 PM snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com said the following:

I was raking leaves into a pile in the street in front of my parents house with my car radio on when it came over the air.

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willshak

Got home from kindergarten and my mom was crying while watching TV. It was unlike her to watch day time TV at all, much less cry. So I was kind of confused. I tried to tell jokes to cheer her up.

JFK didn't mean much to me. When the astronauts died in that Apollo burn, though, I cried. THAT was closer to my home. (metaphorically)

--- Stephen

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Stephen Tontoni

Same here. I grew up in Huntsville, AL, and my dad worked on the Apollo Project (specifically the third stage Instrument Unit). So, we were very much a "NASA family."

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Greg Heilers

i was in a thatre in ktown germany watching the 7th voyage of sinbad. it was

7pm. before the movie started, some yahoo yelled, president kennedy was just shot, if anyone's interested. 15 minutes later they stopped the movies and sent us home.
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I was in high school (Sophmore) biology class when the word came over that he President had been shot. I went on to English class where we were assigned a theme to write. I was there when the news came that he had died. I don't remember a class after that, so there might have been early dissmissal. We watched TV at home all the next weekend. My father was a federal employee, so he had a few days off.

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Chezelwig

Art Murray wrote: : : 9/11 - Was pulling out of my garage when the first "Lear jet" hit. Decided : to go back into the house to see what was going on. Saw the second "Lear : jet" hit and realized the CNN announcer didn't know the difference between : Norman Lear and a Lear jet. The same guy later breathlessly described US : soldiers "armed with AK-47's" running around the Pentagon. : It is sobering to realize how clueless the newsies are. I was very impressed when one (barely) managed to name the F-16 leading up to ODS.

However, my fav from ODS was some idiot at the main US base in the kingdom on Saud, yapping on about "boosters or heaters or something like that - they make the plane go really fast!"

Meanwhile, over his shoulder there was a plane "landing". Dude, landing? Really? With dual shock cones, and all that noise, are you sure the plane is "landing"?

As for 9/11, I was moving. I walked into work in time to hear that "the tower collapsed!". My immediate response was "bullshit", but after seeing the replay, again - "oh shit".

Bruce

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Bruce Burden

It was hard to grasp the reality of it...one kept associating it with movie special effects. The Onion satirical newspaper noted the same thing:

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Pat

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Pat Flannery

No, those were the ~Blackwater~ soldiers....

8-P
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The Old Man

CCBlack wrote in news:01f65b25-f7b1-4679-881a- snipped-for-privacy@e4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Was walking a shore patrol beat in Hong Kong. Our reliefs were 9 hours late, as they shut *everything* down until they could be sure it wasn't a general insurrection or something.

Was sitting at my desk, and someone from the office next door came over and sa'd "the space shuttle blew up!" I was mad at first, as I didn't believe her. :(

Not memorable at all, save for the (entirely undeserved) ruckus that followed.

Sitting at home, watching it on TV like everyone else. My dad was involved in the space program and was not at all interested, as it was all old hat to him. He complained loudly that he'd rather be watching "Batman".

Sitting in CVIC on the Nimitz, pulling my hair out.

cd

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Carl Dershem

Playing football in the back yard after watching the first ever episode of Dr Who with my friend Brian when my dad came out and told us Kennedy had been shot. It was extremely cold, slightly foggy and there was an acrid smell of smoke in the air. That was because many homes in England were still heated by coal fires in those days and the railway engines were still powered by steam. I was nine years old at the time.

(kim)

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kim

And there was a odd rythmic grinding sound and this police call box appeared out of nowhere. Meanwhile, in the Dallas book depository, the Dalek lowered the Carcano rifle from its manipulator arm. :-)

Pat

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Pat Flannery

Two days after Oswald was shot, my barber told me he knew a guy who knew Jack Ruby, and it was a mob hit. So those Kennedy conspiracy theories got way back indeed. The thing with the Kennedy assassination is that you've got so many people with a plausible reason to want and kill him that it looks like "Murder On The Orient Express". But I know it was Elvis. :-D

Pat

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Pat Flannery

I was at work when my sister called to say she had heard something on the car radio about a plane accidentally crashing into the WTC. One of the offices had a small TV in it. We clicked it on and they replayed the footage. A few minutes later we saw the second plane hit. The anchor was confused and initially believed his producer had rolled tape of the first impact. A couple of us muttered that's another plane, you could see the first tower burning in the background. He caught his mistake fairly quickly and that was about the exact moment that the entire viewing world came to realize in one deep breath that this was a whole different thing than an accidental collision.

I regret that most people have let 9/11 slip from their conscience and seem to feel our job against those that executed the murders, is done. But honestly, I myself cannot bear to watch 9/11 footage again. I've tried and I always wind up with a burning angry desire to see the US go nuclear Rambo on some people. And that ain't healthy - for anyone.

WmB

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WmB

Crawled up in front of the TV watching it. 1st grade was a year away. I got to watch a lot of Apollo stuff back in the day - between Captain Kangaroo in the morning and Gilligan in the afternoon, of course

Came home in the afternoon from school to find that idiot Carter blubbering on TV yet again. When I registered with the selective service a few years later, I was so relieved that it fell on Reagan's watch.

WmB

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WmB

Working out in the yard. My Grandma was visiting us. She shouts out the door that the President was shot. I asked her the President of what - I just couldn;t fathom what the Kennedy generation talked about for years was now visiting my lifetime.

And back at ya - Challenger disaster '86.

College years. I was in my apartment eating breakfast and watching it live when it blew up. Glued to the TV for hourse after watching the same footage and hoping the many false reports - especially the one where the atsronauts may have ejected - proved to be true.

WmB

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WmB

I feel like Chris. We were having some of my aunts over for a second Thanksgiving dinner that day Oswald was shot. We turned off the TV just before that happened because the dinner was ready. It was a surprise when we tuned in again several hours later.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

I was at a Catholic grade school...I got to go home from school early. Thank you, Mr. Oswald....or whoever.

Pat

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Pat Flannery

WmB wrote:

What really torqued me off was watching all the Palestinians jumping up-and-down in Gaza City and cheering after they heard about it....meanwhile, Yasser Arafat was walking around in something like a horrified catatonic trance among the cheering people, realizing what this meant in regards to American-Arab relations. Best to steer as far clear of that part of the world as possible, lest you get sucked into the hate vortex of it that's been spinning around inside of it like a razor-bladed meat grinder for several thousand years. "This is Hell; nor have you stopped being politically involved in it." At least I do give myself credit for coming up with a outside-the-box solution to the perpetual Israeli/Palestinian problem:

"The Iranian President further suggested that if such a Jewish nation was to be established in the world in the aftermath of the Holocaust, it should have been established in either the United States or Europe- not in Palestine. Okay, let's run with that idea. The total population of Israel is around 6,352,117 according to the CIA Fact book on nations:

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comparison to that figure, the total population of the United States is around 298,444,215 according to the same source. In other words, the total population of Israel is only around 4.6% of the entire United States population. I'm pretty sure we could absorb a 4.6% increase in our total population without major threat, particularly if that 4.6% of total population gain consisted of some of the most literate and well-educated people on the face of the planet. So here's my Grand Schemata: the entire population of the nation of Israel must be encouraged to emigrate to the United States at the earliest opportunity. This shall accomplish many things in one fell swoop:

1.) The United States shall no longer serve as a lightning rod in regards to any problems between the Israelis and their Arab neighbors, with resulting terrorism on United States soil. 2.) Further economic aid to Israel can be eliminated from the federal budget, thereby saving us between two and four billion dollars a year. 3.) Palestinians can now have their land back, and figure out what exactly _they_ can do with that much desert wasteland given a chance. 4.) The Arabs could now get back to their great historical and theological business - debating who should have truly taken up the mantle of Mohammad as the sole leader of Islam, and killing each other over anyone who doesn't see it that way. 5.) The west could get back _our_ historical and theological business - debating how best to screw with the Islamic brain in an attempt to get oil at the lowest prices, and turn the above two groups of Islam against each other to our benefit. 6.) Israel shall now have its true historical capital back, and rebuilt in the Promised Land Of Milk And Honey; i.e. Beverly Hills...or possibly Las Vegas or Miami...God shall certainly send the sure sign as to where it is supposed to be, possibly in the form of a burning palm tree that doesn't involve fireworks or clever fountains and spotlights, the best Kosher deli you ever saw in your life..."and what great prices!", or a tailor that can make clothes that fit you perfectly without even using a tape measure...from the first time you try them on..."without even needing to be taken in!"...something miraculous like that. 7.) Being that the Israelis were the first people who came up with the brilliant concept of tossing their God into a gold-covered suitcase with two Cherubim on top, and getting the hell out of town when the going got bad, a new venue for the continuing history of Judaism should be a great inspiration to new stories for the Midrash. See them now, parting the East River, and fleeing from the hard bondage of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue with the chariots of the ad executives in hot pursuit, to their time of wandering around in Queens till they can hail a cab....which might take up to forty years. :-) A key to it is convincing the Israelis that the United States is their actual homeland, and Moses took a wrong turn while out in the desert (since he took forty years to march them a few hundred miles, I assume he took a _lot_ of wrong turns; either that, or he started following the wrong cloud with disastrous results). In this regard, the Mormon belief that Native Americans are the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel may prove most useful; whereas I don't really expect the Israelis to buy this whole concept, it will give them a reasonable excuse to high-tail it out of the Mideast to greener pastures on this side of the Atlantic without loss of pride, and I see the Native American casinos being put on far firmer and well regulated financial ground as a result. I am also fairly sure that bison chew their cud, and Kosher Bison On Rye could become a new taste sensation that would rapidly gain favor at delis near these casinos. Any doubt about the kosher aspect of bison can be quickly eliminated by merely looking at one's face:
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will note that this creature is bearded, and does not cut the hair at the corners of its head. It might as well be wearing a Yamaka. If Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses is to be believed, the horns may also be highly significant:
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" ;-)

Pat

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Pat Flannery

I always got a kick out of that; the Iranians take our people hostage, and Carter tries a desperate and heroic rescue operation that doesn't work due to a sandstorm and bad luck. Reagan, on the other hand, tells them that "if you left our people go, we'll secretly send you arms." Who had the balls, and who was the appeaser to the terrorist demands in that situation?

Pat

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