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where and when
Sep. 11th, 2009 11:11 amToday being what it is, I keep thinking of all those "where were you when" stories.
I think I have three.
(I would have four, but even though I was around when man landed on the moon, all I have in my memory are some slides my parents took of the TV coverage. I don't actually remember the event.)
1. Where were you when you heard Reagan was shot? My high school library. I remember being pretty freaked out about it at the time, mostly because it seemed to me then that Reagan had always been president.
2. Where were you when you heard about the Challenger explosion? My dorm room. That was the one year I lived on campus. I had walked to back to my room during a break in classes and saw it on the television. As I walked to my next class, perfect lovely little snowflakes fell, and I thought maybe they were souls floating back to earth. Ironically, my next class was Speech Com, where we were scheduled to talk about group think. Hello teachable moment.
3. Where were you on 9/11? At work. At that point in time, it was just me and my boss still working on the second floor of our old office building, and the boss was often out at meetings, so I was all alone. I had on a whim, turned the radio on (which happened to be tuned to NPR) just as they were covering the attack to the Pentagon. Not too long after that my boss came back and filled me in and I spent the whole day refreshing the local paper's webpage trying to keep up with things. I didn't actually see any tv coverage until I got home that night, save what video I could manage to load on my computer. Trying day to spend all alone and frustrated because all of the major news websites were essentially frozen from so many people trying to access them...
Those are the big three for me, unless I've managed to sieve something important out of my brain (always a possibility)...
