toejam
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Post by toejam on Jul 7, 2016 6:06:10 GMT -8
Not answering.
It sux getting old.
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Post by kayman on Jul 7, 2016 18:38:06 GMT -8
Kennedy assassination.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 7, 2016 18:50:27 GMT -8
Not answering. It sux getting old. Awwww. How bad we talkin' here? Hindenburg disaster? Titanic sinking? The Civil War? Collapse of the Roman Empire?
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Post by reuben on Jul 8, 2016 3:01:59 GMT -8
It's a little known fact that an early mission, when we were still sending up animals and not humans, that one such mission went a tad awry, and a newt was actually the first creature from earth to set foot (paw? pad?) on the moon. God bless her, she died there without water.
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Post by amaruq on Jul 8, 2016 5:45:06 GMT -8
Though fairly young here, I grew up in a small rural town prior to the internet and so I was pretty shielded from the world.
I think I can recall seeing the news of the Oka Crisis (Canadian things), but I'd have only been three so maybe I'm projecting backwards in hindsight. Regardless, I'd have been too young to actually understand the significance.
Undoubtedly, the first major news event I can recall clearly (was sitting in woodshop class) and understanding would have been September 11, 2001.
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Post by BlueBear on Jul 8, 2016 6:01:11 GMT -8
The Challenger explosion. We were all watching it on TV in school at the time.
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Post by gabby on Jul 8, 2016 6:11:20 GMT -8
How bad we talkin' here? Hindenburg disaster? Titanic sinking? The Civil War? Collapse of the Roman Empire? Early 50s: nightly Korean war reports on the radio. My dad followed the war reports every night in bed before going to sleep. It used to really upset me because I thought they were "just down the block" and would burst through the door any second - "war reports" included frantic voices giving reports while guns blazed away in the background with occasional explosions. Real or not, I couldn't sleep with the stuff on the radio. I couldn't go to sleep until Mom explained to me that it was "on the other side of the world" and made Dad turn the radio down so we kids couldn't hear - I was still pretty uneasy about it all. War reports never sound good. We had 2 radios back in those days: a giant console thing that we had inherited from Grandma that sat in the living room on a wall all to itself, and Dad's bedside radio with the glowing tubes inside. I remember the Marciano fights on the radio as well. TVs came and went all the time some years later. They never worked long enough to make my dad happy with them. All you could get was Howdy Doody in the afternoons, though I have a vague memory of seeing "Gorgeous George" wrestle on a neighbor's TV late at night.
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Post by whistlepunk on Jul 8, 2016 6:20:34 GMT -8
The first I remember with any details is the King assassination. I remember just flashes of the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis.
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Post by toejam on Jul 8, 2016 7:02:23 GMT -8
The Challenger explosion. We were all watching it on TV in school at the time. That had to be traumatic: "Yay for the school teacher! ... What happened? ... Oh"
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Post by autumnmist on Jul 8, 2016 7:34:28 GMT -8
I'm not precisely certain, but I'm sure it was related to the Cold War. That stuff scared me to death. I was sure the Russians and their nukes were coming any day. Same here; I can't remember if we actually had disaster drills at school or it was my imagination, but I do remember the fear and anxiety generated by the long Cold War. It wasn't a quick disaster, a shock and awe type event, but rather a consistent, overhanging, everpresent threat. And at the time it seemed like the worst long term crisis a country could face. It wasn't quick and over with, like the Kennedy, King, and Evers assasinations, which were violent shocks, then gradually life moved on (that's not a dimunition of those lost lives though). The Challenger explosion. We were all watching it on TV in school at the time. I remember the day that happened; a parking lot attendant told me as I parked in one of the campus parking lots. She was crying and shocked. When I entered class, the professor (who indulged his not so progressive ideas perhaps through the protection of some radical movements on campus at that time), thrust his first into the air and shouted "Down with technology!" Some of us were just stunned that such a tragedy could occur and this arm-chair rebel could react in such an inappropriate manner.
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Post by hikerjer on Jul 8, 2016 7:42:26 GMT -8
It wasn't a quick disaster, a shock and awe type event, but rather a consistent, overhanging, everpresent threat. And at the time it seemed like the worst long term crisis a country could face Exactly. It was always there in the back of your mind. Every time you heard a siren, you figured this was it.
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Post by BlueBear on Jul 8, 2016 7:45:08 GMT -8
The Challenger explosion. We were all watching it on TV in school at the time. That had to be traumatic: "Yay for the school teacher! ... What happened? ... Oh" Well, I didn't really comprehend the significance of what'd happened until a bit later in life. But I do recall all the grown-ups around me being very shocked and hushed in their reaction to it. And I remember watching it on TV in the classroom, for sure, so it obviously left an impression on me, although again I'm not sure I fully grasped what was going on. I was 6 going on 7 at the time.
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Post by gabby on Jul 8, 2016 9:10:21 GMT -8
And I remember watching it on TV in the classroom, for sure, so it obviously left an impression on me, although again I'm not sure I fully grasped what was going on. I was 6 going on 7 at the time. This really makes me feel old...I was already in my 40s and five years into my second marriage.
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Post by hikingtiger on Jul 8, 2016 10:14:02 GMT -8
I remember people talking about the Apollo-Soyuz docking.
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Post by packdad on Jul 9, 2016 15:33:35 GMT -8
I remember the fear of the Cuban missile crisis and the grief for JFK.
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