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re: What part of non-sports history did you witness (in-person)?
Posted on 7/21/21 at 10:50 am to MoarKilometers
Posted on 7/21/21 at 10:50 am to MoarKilometers
I was taxing out at SFO when Asiana 214 crashed. Still have pictures of it burning from 2013.
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Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:07 am to LSUFreek
Longest carrier based flight in Us navy history.
USN F-14 getting a blue on blue air kill
USN F-14 getting a blue on blue air kill
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:12 am to double d
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Kennedy assassination, Viet Nam war, First man on the moon.
You went to Vietnam and the moon? Impressive
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:15 am to LSUFreek
Saw Jessica Lynch's unit get ambushed (from about 1/4 mile away).
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:15 am to LSUFreek
Participated in the first launch of a Minuteman III missile in 1972.
Participated in the first diver less subsea oil well completion in 1976.
Participated in the first diver less subsea oil well completion in 1976.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:35 am to bearglove
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I was also in town (Bogalusa) when the Gaylord chemical plant had a rail car explode. People still getting paid from that lawsuit.
I was one of the first people to know this happened because my dad worked there and I was ~1.5 miles away when it happened.
Were you at football practice?
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:36 am to LSUFreek
Watched the Space Shuttle Challenger blow up in person
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:41 am to USMEagles
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That Super Bowl parade... I remember thinking there was the real possibility of some kind of crushing incident or stampede. There was one point where we were walking down Canal, and I had a half-empty beer in my hand at the start of the block. At the end of the block that can was flat as a pancake.
I remember waiting in a heap of people in the tunnel for the ferry back to Gretna after the parade and having similar concerns. Had younger siblings with us and we got the hell out when we saw people pissing on the wall due to the wait being so long
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:44 am to LSUFreek
Was watching TV when Gary Plauche blew Kevin Doucet's brains all over the wall at Ryan Airport.
Remember getting off work and going home to watch tv when the deadline expired for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Got to see Shock and Awe unfold on primetime TV...
Earliest historical memory was of Kennedy's horse drawn casket. Think I was 4.
Remember getting off work and going home to watch tv when the deadline expired for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. Got to see Shock and Awe unfold on primetime TV...
Earliest historical memory was of Kennedy's horse drawn casket. Think I was 4.
This post was edited on 7/21/21 at 11:46 am
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:50 am to LSUFreek
The Cabildo fire in May 1988.
I was in Pat O’s with a group of fellow students celebrating completing final exams. We walked outside Pat O’s and were headed toward Jackson Square and we saw smoke starting to escape from the Cabildo roof. Very somber scene….
I was in Pat O’s with a group of fellow students celebrating completing final exams. We walked outside Pat O’s and were headed toward Jackson Square and we saw smoke starting to escape from the Cabildo roof. Very somber scene….
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:52 am to OweO
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I remember when the space shuttle exploded. I was in 2nd grade and my teacher was excited that a teacher was going up in space. We were watching it live.. And then BOOM. I can't remember how the 2nd grader me felt, but I remember my teacher crying.
That was really bad! That was the big PR story of the mission and classrooms across the country were tuned in live only to see it blow up.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:52 am to OweO
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I remember when the space shuttle exploded. I was in 2nd grade and my teacher was excited that a teacher was going up in space. We were watching it live.. And then BOOM. I can't remember how the 2nd grader me felt, but I remember my teacher crying.
That was really bad! That was the big PR story of the mission and classrooms across the country were tuned in live only to see it blow up.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 11:54 am to LSUFreek
I have two direct links to Derek Todd Lee’s victims, plus we worked at the same place (he quit just before I started).
I knew Randi Mebruer from high school, actually gave her a ride to school her first day of high school.
I met Pam Kinamore at her shop the weekend before she was killed. I went back to he shop the morning after she was killed (not knowing). And waited 30 minutes, wondering why she wasn’t open.
I knew Randi Mebruer from high school, actually gave her a ride to school her first day of high school.
I met Pam Kinamore at her shop the weekend before she was killed. I went back to he shop the morning after she was killed (not knowing). And waited 30 minutes, wondering why she wasn’t open.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 12:29 pm to The Spleen
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I went on a high school trip to NYC and have a picture of my class there with the WTC in the background. It's kind of surreal now to look at that picture.
I have one my mom took during our visit. I have been to a lot of places where tragedy happened (Dealey Plaza, the Dakota, Flight 93 crash site, among others) and I think it's generally more of an eerie feeling to have pictures or memories of a place before the event happened.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 12:35 pm to LSUFreek
I watched LSU upset #1 Florida in 1997 from the nosebleeds with my dad. I cried my eyes out because he wouldn't let me run onto the field 
Posted on 7/21/21 at 7:19 pm to Tigeralum2008
fricking alright.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 7:33 pm to MorbidTheClown
The Stones May have play in the Dome in 1978 but they did set a long-standing indoor crowd record that was eventually beaten by a WWE Wrestlemania. George Thorogood opened up for the Stones.
It was 1981.
It was 1981.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 7:36 pm to The Boat
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There’s probably some people on this board who had Space Shuttle Columbia wreckage in their yard.
I have pieces of the shuttle. Luckily the statute of limitations has passed. They were putting people in jail for keeping that stuff. I was also at Barksdale when Bush landed on 9/11.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 7:44 pm to LSUFreek
My first and only meal at WD-50 was the final night the place was open. It was a "Greatest Hits" menu. Wylie Dufresne is a severely underrated chef.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 8:04 pm to QuothTheRaven
saw the entourage of police vehicles arresting mayor Marion Berry in DC, was on spring break at south padre island when Selena was shot
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