re: How many “where were you” events in American history exist?

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When they declared a pandemic and everything shut down. March 11th.

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The Rudy gobert thing was the night before cause I remember getting home from dinner and that being all over tv

When Britney and Madonna kissed at the VMA’s

Where were you when the greatest team in college football history won the NC in the Superdome?

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Depression
COVID

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These aren’t “where were you” events. The event needs to be a single moment in time not multiple years of time.

If you wanted to say “Black Tuesday” that’s an event that led to the eventual depression. But the depression as a whole covered multiple years.

There is nothing like that for Covid. Every person, state, store, etc was doing something different at a different time.

The only 2 for me were 9/11 and the death of Randy Rhoads.

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Saints winning the Super Bowl has to be one of the top where were you moments this century

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Watching the Super Bowl? These are supposed to be things that happen out of the blue.

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The OJ Simpson

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Bronco Chase
9/11
Shuttle Columbia

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Pearl Harbor, but most of the folks that were alive have passed on.

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See that’s an interesting one and why I referenced in OP. I was born in ‘79 but still remember when I first understood what Pearl Harbor was.

“A day that will leave in infamy” and the understanding of that event is the only historical event that happened before my birth that I remember where I was when it “happened”.

Papa’s light blue recliner as he explained who said what.

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You remember where you were when Covid happened? Where was that if I might ask?

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I get your point but I do remember the moment I know everything was different. I was texting my buddy my predictions for the death rate and he replied that the NBA had just canceled the season. when the major sports were called off I figured it was getting real.