For History lovers.

[piece-itpete]

Too young for JFK, 9-11 I was at work when a shop guy came to the window to the office and said a plane hit the WTC. I said wow or something and went back to work (I knew an Air Force plane had hit the Empire State Building years ago, I figured it was an accident).

When he came up and said the second plane hit, I said, this means war. Shut down the shop and we sat around the radio.

Looking back, I should've sent everyone home, or at least we should've gone down the street to the bar to watch the tv.

The shop was located in an old industrial neighborhood. It was a beautiful day. Normally there would've been tons of trucks on the road - it was dead quiet, like a ghost town.

I didn't grasp the full horror until I got home and switched on the tv.

Pete

[Stereoholic]

JFK- before my time.

Challenger explosion- in 2nd grade watching the launch on TV with the rest of my class.

9/11- Went to work as usual. I did not watch TV, or listen to the radio in the morning, so I had no idea what was going on. I went down to a co-worker's office to ask him a question, and everyone was standing around talking about a plane crash. I made a nonchalant comment that I hoped everyone involved was o.k. They must of thought I was stupid or something, because one fellow got upset and said,"It's terrible, man." Can't remember what happened after that. They did not send us home.

When I got home, I spent the evening watching CNN.

[Sandy G]

Oh, yeah-Challenger. Walked into a local eatery, was stopped dead in my tracks by the TV, EVERYBODY in the joint was transfixed, watchin' it live, or instant replay. I remember in summer '66, too, when that lunatic Whitman went up on the tower of that university library in Texas & started pickin' people off at random...I remember how HOT it was that summer, for some reason...My mother's mother lived w/us, & she was a VERY opinionated Pill. She thought the world was goin' crazy...And, boy, oh, boy, a couple of years later when the "Hippie" business became big, man, did she HATE "Hippies" ! She'd see one on TV or something-Rogersville wasn't exactly overrun w/'em-& she'd screw her face up, & make this awful hissing sound, like she'd seen the Devil hisself...Shhhhhhhhhhhhhew !! (grin)