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billyio

12-22-2002, 10:48 AM

Since the Baby Boomers have JFK's death as a defining moment in their generation's memory, I think that the Space Shuttle disaster is our claim to infamy. Where were you when this happened?
I was in junior high at the time and we had a half-day from school. Anyway, my friends and I were at the local pizzeria playing video games when we heard the news.

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Death Metal Moe

12-22-2002, 11:59 AM

NO WAY dude. The instant the judicial system began to crumble on national TV for the 1st time.

THE OJ VERDICT.

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12-22-2002, 12:12 PM

had cut school was at my house smoking weed and saw it live!!!

Bama

12-22-2002, 12:23 PM

I remember where I was when the space shuttle exploded much better than the OJ verdict. I watched it live on TV. Skipped school (like 5th grade or something) to see it.

Also, maybe not as big but when McGuire hit the 62nd home run I remember that vividly.

P.S. OJ is innocent :)

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Halfpops

12-22-2002, 01:17 PM

I was working that day and had mentioned to my co-worker in the morning that i'd give anything to fly the shuttle (i'm a pilot)he calls me like 2 hours later to tell me the shuttle blew up. For the end of the boomer generation i think the shuttle is it.

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A.J.

12-22-2002, 01:55 PM

I was a sophomore in high school at the time and was home sick that day. I was watching the Challenger launch live on TV.

I also remember being at the old Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA the day Reagan was shot.

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The Jays

12-22-2002, 02:04 PM

I think that the Space Shuttle disaster is our claim to infamy.

...not mine, I was five....

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The Chairman

12-22-2002, 05:40 PM

My dorm room in Wren Hall at Tufts University.

Incidentally, for a superb explanation of WHY the Challenger Disaster happened (and how it could have been avoided), pick up the superb (as they all are) book by Edward Tufte "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative."

Required reading, as is his seminal "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information."

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Alice S. Fuzzybutt

12-22-2002, 05:42 PM

I was a freshman in college. I went back to my room between classes, turned on the tube, and saw the shuttle blow up.

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cheezeemee

12-22-2002, 05:44 PM

Where were you?

Just now? I was in the bathroom.

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12-22-2002, 05:55 PM

suddenly i'm not feeling so old, how refreshing. i was only 10, or maybe not even yet. but i think i was having dinner, which would only make sense if the shuttle was launching around midday here time. unless of course it was an early morning launch, then i would've been home for lunch maybe. but i was definitely in the dining room when i saw it on tv.

Evilpete

12-22-2002, 08:17 PM

Where were you?

I'm ova here now!!!!!

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silera

12-22-2002, 08:20 PM

I was in 3rd grade watching the launch in the classroom with our teacher, Ms. Mole, who had been one of the teachers that tried to get a spot on the shuttle.

She was very excited about it, and told us all about the process of applying, the interviews and her trip down to the spacestation with a group of teachers.

Then it blew up.

I don't remember getting any school counseling, but looking back on it, that was really fucked up.

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Crippler

12-22-2002, 10:04 PM

Space Shuttle disaster...where were you

I was in Mrs. DeLotto's 6th grade class at St. Christopher's School in Parsippany.

It happened during lunch, but the facts were still unclear when our teaher got back from the teacher's lounge. She walked in & everyone asked what happened, having no ide, and her response was, "It looked like it blew up."

We didn't know for sure until we got home that night. I don't think I left the TV all night & must have seen that thing blow up 1,000 times.

...silent, but violent.

Ryan the Great

12-22-2002, 10:23 PM

i was in my moms stomach. i didnt come out until 2 months after the challenger thing.

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Thebazile78

12-22-2002, 10:49 PM

It happened in January 1986 when I was in the 2nd grade.

I think we listened to it on the radio but I didn't believe it had happened. . .I remember running all the way home from the bus stop (this was an accomplishment in North Jersey, in January, uphill all the way, wearing a Catholic school uniform. . . don't get sick thoughts, I was only 7, you kid-toucher) to watch the replay on TV.

I was standing in our living room, watching our fuzzy 13-inch color TV and I burst into tears when it blew up.

I couldn't watch TV for a week and the images still upset me to this very day, though it did not scar me as deeply psychologically as when the Twin Towers fell.

I mean, we can all also remember precisely where we were on September 11, 2001, right? Wouldn't that count as our "defining tragedy"? Or is it more of a "defining tragedy" for a certain area of our nation?

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The Chairman

12-22-2002, 11:31 PM

I was in 3rd grade watching the launch in the classroom with our teacher, Ms. Mole, who had been one of the teachers that tried to get a spot on the shuttle.

She was very excited about it, and told us all about the process of applying, the interviews and her trip down to the spacestation with a group of teachers.

Then it blew up.

Wow. :-(

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billyio

12-23-2002, 05:44 AM

You are absolutely right thebazile 78. 9-11 certainly surpasses the Shuttle disaster. I tend to view what happened on 9-11 as something more abstract and pragmatic at the samt time: I view it as a watershed of U.S. history. I don't think we will ever enjoy the sense of invulnerability that we once had nor will we ever feel the security of everyday life that we once had in this country. I think 9-11 ushered in a new political platform,although there has been a War on Terrorism for years. I remember Reagan stating this after Qaddafi's attacks. I kind of link the War on Terrorism with the War on Drugs. Same difference.

Anyway, I think that 9-11 is the NEW defining moment for the NEXT generation...which we will be able to see in the upcoming years.

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DarkHippie

12-23-2002, 08:50 AM

I was in 3rd grade and didn't go to school that day because i had an orthodontist's appointment. I heard about it in the car.

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12-23-2002, 08:53 AM

I was in fifth grade and was watching the shuttle launch in the school's library. Probably the shortest science lesson of my school years that day.

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furie

12-23-2002, 08:59 AM

I was in the library of Our Lady of Mercy, in Hicksville, for study hall. I was in the 7th grade.

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fiestygal

12-26-2002, 07:22 AM

i think i was 4 when the space shuttle exploded wasnt that 1985?

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12-26-2002, 07:30 AM

I don't remember getting any school counseling, but looking back on it, that was really fucked up
good point silera.

because i was watching it at school also. they gathered a bunch of classes to watch it in the cafeteria. it was very sad, but i don't really remember what they told us about it.

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12-26-2002, 08:49 AM

wasnt that 1985?

1987

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silera

12-26-2002, 09:00 AM

It was in January of 1986. I was in third grade so I had just turned 9.

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zathrus

12-26-2002, 04:53 PM

i was in elem. school. i remember going into the library to watch it. they had to play it on a time delay, so they saw it on the main tv in the librarians office before we could. so they shut the tv off and sent everyonr back to their rooms, where they had the teacher explain to us what happened. i didn't actually "see" it till i got home

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12-26-2002, 05:00 PM

I was 6...so i was in the kindergarden or 1st or 2nd grade

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12-26-2002, 05:08 PM

I was in fourth grade, and was actually the only one in my class who didn't watch the blast-off on TV (I think I was taking a test I had missed a few days before due to illness). All I remember is our principal Mr. Martin coming on the PA system and telling us all that we were being dismissed early. I didn't even know the shuttle exploded until later that night. 
My third grade teacher was one of the finalists for the mission. She was out of school for weeks following the explosion, because she couldn't cope with the idea that it could have been her in that shuttle instead. 

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Gaia

12-27-2002, 09:28 AM

Let's see...I was pretty young...I think School was cancelled because It was cold as a witches tit...and there was snow every where. My Dad had the radio on outside with my Brother while they were breaking thier back's shoveling the snow. They both came in to tell us....then of course the T.V. Went on...It felt horrible to see those images of it exploding and falling back to Earth.

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