For me, I wasn't born until 1980. I just got dropped off at PM Kindergarten when Challenger exploded. I was working at the Shell gas station on US 250 in Perkins Twp, OH when a Perkins Police Officer told me. We turned on the radio and listened even though it was against company policy. I was working the front desk at the Sleep Inn in Perkins Twp when Columbia exploded.
For the record our gas station did not raise prices on 9/11 until people started jamming the gas stations. I was done with work at 3 p.m. and I filled my tank at the price I was instructed to lower the rate to that morning BEFORE the attacks.
2007-06-29T06:21:00Z
The Perkins Police Officer told me about 9/11
Richard S2007-06-29T06:28:41Z
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...JFK was assassinated I wasn't born yet.
...Challenger exploded It was all over the news when we got home from school for lunch.
...the World Trade Center was destroyed On the Long Island Railroad while the towers were first hit, walked out of Penn Station and 3 blocks west without knowing anything was going on. (Yes, if I looked to my right, I would have seen it live.) And in my office about a block away from the Empire State Building when the towers went down.
...Columbia exploded I wasn't at work that day - just flipping threw the channels when I came across the news. I actually thought it was just a Challenger-related story at first.
JFK--I was grocery shopping in Solvang,Ca and they announced it over the PA system. I was watching coverage on TV and saw Jack Ruby shoot the perp live. Also was watching when Robert Kennedy was shot. Challenger, walking back to my office and glanced up at the TV in the pilots lounge and saw it explode after the ball of fire at take off. WTC, I was working in my yard in NC, went up to the corner store for some Gator ade for the yard guy and friend there had the TV on and mentioned what had happened, and as we were looking at the TV the second plane hit. Columbia, watching the tv. I was also watching CNN when the big quake hit Ca in the early 90's. Now that was really spooky to watch a shaker live.
Challenger-- I was in High school, but our heat went out that night and had slept in the living room next to the fireplace and my mom said I didn't have to go to school. we had the TV on and they interrupted programming.
WTC--I was at work doing my first job, called my second job (EMS) and they were like "are you not by a TV??" The second plane had just hit and I told my co-workers so we listened to the radio.
Columbia--Again, at my first job. Since 9/11 I got breaking news on my cell phone and I got a message that communications were lost with the shuttle, and I knew it was supposed to land that morning.
JFK. Iwas sitting at my desk in Lorain Ohio, Water dept. Challenger,I was in Dallas Tex. picking up auto parts. WTC,I was sitting in my Easy chair watching A.M.News. Columbia,Watching the ship come apart outside my home.It went right over my house as it came apart and the pieces came down 30 miles to the east of my home.
I wasn't born for JFK's assassination, I was in my mom's belly for the Challenger's explosion, I was in 10th grade history class when another teacher came in and told our class about the terrorist attacks, and I was home when the Columbia exploded.