you know I am not sure how this falls into history, the day elvis died I was in vegas, and heard it on some nice harmon carmen products, i was window shopping while my folks were losing our college funds, the store owner ask me to turn that up and i went out of the store a bit stunned and went down half a block to the golden nugget and entered which was a bozo no no and i told the guard elvis is dead and have to go tell my mom and walked past him. it was the eeriest thing i have ever experienced in my life, a few people heard what i said to the guard and like a slow moving body of water a hush fell upon the casino everything stopped four corners literally stopped as everyone started to hear about elvis, vegas can be a rather noisy town, to say you can hear a pin drop in vegas is a joke but at that moment, you could


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That gave me chills!!! I remember that day. I was baby-sitting....didn't fully comprehend the magnitude of it then....

Been so busy that I havent had time to play on the web. Come in and see this and have to add my experiences too :p

I remember Nov 63, JFK died and that was all that was on TV. Bummed me out no end lol.

Aug 65 the Watts riots were going strong and everyone was locked in the house, again no fun!

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Allen/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg[/IMG]Summers of 68 and 69 watching the Fire Fall! Lived in yosemite and loved that every night. Wish things like that still happen.

July 69 watching the men walk on the moon as I looked out the window looking up at the moon. Was a surreal experience for me.

1970 living in Los Angeles, the city was rocked everyday by earthquakes. I remember one morning being shook awake as my bed bounced across the room and bounced off my brothers bed several times. There were about 6 quakes in an hour with the worst one waking me up. That was finally enough for my dad to want to leave southern california, and I was very happy to leave LOL.

!991 sitting in the hospital waiting to hear if my foster son was gonna live from cancer surgery. He did and continues on even though they gave him a 5% chance to live. While waiting the TV was playing the attack on Iraq, missle and bombs raining down with precision unseen ever before. Will never ever forget that day.

Ahhh the memories :D

This may not be 'history' to you but it is to me. ..... The moment my dad told my siblings & I that our mom had died. January 1967. We were standing in the dinning room. I did something I'm a little ashamed of..Since my siblings often made fun of my actions, when I squealed for a second before crying, I gave out a fake chuckle thinking they would overlook my actions. I was 8 yrs old, soon to be 9.

9/11 I was in my neuro's office, about to leave. The nurse came in as I was leaving & told us we should see TV. My FIL was waiting for me in the parking lot & we listened to it on the radio till I got home then I turn on the TV. (Like my kids, I think most all kids were watching it on TV, at school, if at school yet.)

1992 Rodney King riots. DH was working in the area where the riots began. His boss let all the sales reps of the area head for home.

My friend's DH is a firefighter so he was down there manning hoses to dowse fires.

I support law enforcement but I support laws more. Rodney King was a danger, he could have killed someone while hyped up on PCP like he was. But the beating was excessive.

I just watched another police beating after a bad guy was subdued. I want the law to protect me. These policemen should be stopped from using their billie clubs like they do. I keep wondering why the other policemen do not stop the beatings.

There is a clear line between enforcing the law and breaking the law. Not a fine line, a clear line.

I forgot one of the looooongest running history things LOL

70's CB's and country truckin songs!

Hang ten everyone! :winky:

November ?, 2000 & January 20, 2001 When Bush Got "elected". I was in the 8th (?) grade. Since it was a long time ago (and a long span of time), and I didn't think of it as amazing then i don't remember where I was exactly.

September 11, 2001 I was in Homeroom in 8th (?) Grade. We were about to change to the first class when the principal made an announcement that 2 planes had crashed onto the towers. We were not allowed near phones, TV's, or Radios all day (unless a parent pulled their kid out that day, which a few did) so I didn't know what really happened (They crashed into the towers) until I got home. Then I watched the TV for hours that evening.

I am borrowing this from shelley and I think it fits this thread. LOL

and we're there...right NOW :)