I'm Old Enough to Remember....

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Comment by Sherry Somach on July 14, 2011 at 12:35am

The Shadow Knows.....................

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 14, 2011 at 12:09am

no you never forget...I had just put my flag out and brought my paper in when my son pulled up with my Grandson who was spending the day with me and says..Mom turn on the TV....a plane just hit the twin towers..then we saw the second plan had hit...I couldn't tear myself away....

 

Comment by Barry Parsons on July 13, 2011 at 11:58pm

I'm not old enough to remember when JFK was killed, and I was older than 6th grade (holy crap) but I clearly remember 9/11.  I had been up early and was watching a rerun of ER on cable.  I'd fallen asleep and woke up to coverage of it.  When I realized it wasn't ER, I thought they'd changed shows for some reason.  Then I saw that every channel was showing coverage and figured out what it was.  Not long after that the second tower was hit.  It was one of those things you just never forget.

Comment by nancy Sanchez on July 13, 2011 at 8:10pm

When JFK was killed I was at work..all the machines in the factory were banging away when our foreman came in and told us..total silence..they brought a radio in and we just stood around and listened and they sent us all home early...coming through downtown on the bus I bought a paper..everyone was just blank looking or teary....I still have the paper....

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on July 13, 2011 at 8:03pm

Yeah, unfortunately I remember the John Birchers raising a ruckus about the local college teaching.....Communism in a Government class!  The instructor was harassed and threatened on a regular basis.  Not a good memory!  The Cuban Missle crisis was a big scary mystery to most of us. 

 

Comment by wiffledust on July 13, 2011 at 7:57pm

i don't remember the death of JFK, but i remember the "aftereffects"...meaning it was on everyone's mind for years after that. and then came bobby and MLK. so i remember driving through d.c. with my parents and asking my dad to duck. and he said why? and i was afraid someone would shoot him in the head.

Comment by Maryrose Orlans on July 13, 2011 at 7:51pm

Candy rings, candy necklaces--didn't like eating them as much as wearing them, until they started to 'melt'!!

Comment by Steen Krause on July 13, 2011 at 5:44pm

I remember Pluto being a planet. 

To piggy back off of Robert's post... I was in the sixth grade on 9/11. I watched the second tower get hit and both towers fall live on the news with two fellow students, two teachers and the principal of my school. After that day, I remember hearing about a several second delay being instilled on all "live" television broadcasts in case of those situations... not sure if it ever came to fruition.

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 5:21pm

Here's one I'll never ever forget.. Where were you when President Kennedy was killed? I was in Jr High Orchestra when the Principal announced it and that the buses are on there way to take us home. The director left the room to go into his office where the band director already was and the both wept while we put our instruments away and headed for our lockers to go home. The silence were terrible in all the hallways except for the sniffles you could hear as you went outside. No noise..Just quiet.. even on the bus..

Comment by Robert Muscovitz on July 13, 2011 at 4:53pm

Lizards were fun. I would grab one or many just for their tails because they would always keep moving. I'd put them in my pocket and go in the house to show mom. That went over well.. And downtown was fun for us two littles boys and grandma first on a streetcar and later a bus,, I swear there were no mufflers back then.. LOL! We always had to pass a place downtown where all the local bums lived in front of the Coke plant and some of the things we saw were not pretty. I could swear that there were many many more homeless back then whether war vets form WWII or the Korean War. They were on every bench in every area and some hid under a main bridge. Grandma always would take us to a chow mein place which was exciting considering we never had this at home back then...Fun though....

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