Musing...
Read something today that got me to thinking about something I've actually spent a good bit of time pondering in the last few years. Being a history buff, I've wondered sometimes what makes something historical (personally speaking), what defines a moment in time such that you retain the exact memory of what you were doing when you heard/saw/experienced an event. It seems that each generation has something that its members vividly remember. For my parents, it was when Kennedy was shot. The next generation, when Lennon was shot.
For me, it was the Challenger disaster first, and then 9/11. I was in high school when Challenger happened, and I remember people standing in the hallways, grouped under the overhead speakers, listening to the announcement the principal was making. In my World History class, we watched TV footage of it, and the whole classroom was totally silent.
Of course, the Challenger doesn't compare with 9-11, but it was so sudden, out of nowhere, and the worst thing that I could remember at that point.
So, barring 9-11....is there a major event that you remember like that?
For me, it was the Challenger disaster first, and then 9/11. I was in high school when Challenger happened, and I remember people standing in the hallways, grouped under the overhead speakers, listening to the announcement the principal was making. In my World History class, we watched TV footage of it, and the whole classroom was totally silent.
Of course, the Challenger doesn't compare with 9-11, but it was so sudden, out of nowhere, and the worst thing that I could remember at that point.
So, barring 9-11....is there a major event that you remember like that?