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Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:16 pm to rpg37
Posted it earlier...the Bay of Pig/missile scare followed by the JFK assassination and all that came after it.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:16 pm to rpg37
The Antietam death toll. Shocking.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:17 pm to Grievous Angel
Ryan White and AIDS. He contracted it through a blood transfusion. When he went back to school they wouldn't let him in. Parents were protesting him.
Made normal people worried you could contract it other ways. My mom didn't want me drinking after anyone. I was worried about mosquitoes. It was so unknown at the time.
Made normal people worried you could contract it other ways. My mom didn't want me drinking after anyone. I was worried about mosquitoes. It was so unknown at the time.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:18 pm to mule74
quote:
42 ... the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was six.
I more clearly remember the Persian Gulf War and the LA Riots.
Im a year younger. The riots sorta but I definitely remember the
Gulf War. I had trading cards of it
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:18 pm to rpg37
Born in 74.
Remember being home with cold/flu in early 80's, so 6-8 years old, and hearing ont television about a new deadly virus with no cure called AIDS. Flu like symptoms, no cure, not sure how people catch it. I thought I was gonna die.
First event I remember being informed and aware of was Challenger explosion. I lived in Florida so it was a bigger deal there for most school kids.
Remember being home with cold/flu in early 80's, so 6-8 years old, and hearing ont television about a new deadly virus with no cure called AIDS. Flu like symptoms, no cure, not sure how people catch it. I thought I was gonna die.
First event I remember being informed and aware of was Challenger explosion. I lived in Florida so it was a bigger deal there for most school kids.
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 9:19 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
Apollo 11 moon landing.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:22 pm to rpg37
I remember when we dropped the A-bomb on Japan.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:24 pm to Morgus
1st new story I can remember was Mount St. Helens, vaguely.
I have better relocations, from a few week later watching the Miracle Olympic Hockey game.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:24 pm to rpg37
Watergate hearings. Five or six years old.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:25 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Reagan being shot.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:41 pm to rpg37
Probably hurricane Andrew or desert storm coverage on CNN
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:44 pm to chinese58
I was at a Rangers game the night of the OJ Bronco Chase. I went to get something to eat or drink and saw it on the TV at a concession stand. I stood there watching it for a long time. All of the TV's in the pressbox were on the chase instead of the game.
ETA:
Was at a bar my friends were playing the night we bombed Baghdad. Sat at the bar watching CNN til it closed.
ETA:
Was at a bar my friends were playing the night we bombed Baghdad. Sat at the bar watching CNN til it closed.
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 9:47 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:45 pm to rpg37
I dont remember watching....
But I remember hearing Watergate, Watergate, Watergate
..
But I remember hearing Watergate, Watergate, Watergate
..
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:46 pm to rpg37
1980 presidential election
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:47 pm to rpg37
The most vivid was 9/11 no work was done in our office that day.
Online the Boston Marathon bombing on here.
Online the Boston Marathon bombing on here.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:47 pm to rpg37
Attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.
The news was playing the footage over and over and I remember asking my mother "Why do they keep shooting that man?"
The next big event where I was old enough to understand what was going on was the loss of Challenger.
The news was playing the footage over and over and I remember asking my mother "Why do they keep shooting that man?"
The next big event where I was old enough to understand what was going on was the loss of Challenger.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:48 pm to rpg37
For me, it was the Challenger space shuttle explosion. I was at my grandmothers house that day sick and not in school. We watched it on TV. I was 10 or 11 years old I think. I remember the teachers name Christie McUlla or something like that.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:49 pm to rpg37
Iran contra hearings. I came in from school and it was running instead of my cartoons. I’ve hated the democrats ever since. 
Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:49 pm to rpg37
I’m 31.
9/11. I vividly remember being in the AV room at Hattie Watts Elementary in Patterson as our PE teacher sat and watched the news that’s showed the planes hitting the towers. My classmates were getting excited like it was a movie (we were in first grade none of us knew better) but I remember looking at my teacher and thinking that something wasn’t right.
9/11. I vividly remember being in the AV room at Hattie Watts Elementary in Patterson as our PE teacher sat and watched the news that’s showed the planes hitting the towers. My classmates were getting excited like it was a movie (we were in first grade none of us knew better) but I remember looking at my teacher and thinking that something wasn’t right.
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