Where were you when...

[Goat Gosselin]

we were watchn that also but i think we turned to check the hockey score of a second and then turned back and he was covered up or something and missed him falling

[scampr]

These I also remember quite vividly.

During the space shuttle Challenger accident I actually watched it live on TV. I was in college in the middle of nowhere Texas and we were skipping class of course planning the night's debauchery. I don't even know why we had the TV on to that station except maybe MTV was playing some gay song. I remember watching and saying outloud. "That ain't fuckin right guys." And then of course the TV announcer started agreeing with me,

I was reading the DenverPost online the morning of the Columbine shooting because I was raised there basically and am a diehard fan of the Broncos. All of a sudden the screen went blank and when it came back it was at the frontpage and a newsflash scrolled telling people there was a hostage incident at the school.

All I have to say is Tuesdays are bad fucking days.

But Diana's accident is something I had to deal with as it was going on. I was working my regular Saturday night gig at the rock station when the news reports came over the wire. They were coming every few seconds and were totally contradictory. My company had an AM and FM station and I normally just cut my liners digitally, programmed them in and let the AM do it's own thing so I could do my rock show on FM.

I ended up going back and forth after each song and doing live updates until it was confirmed that she was definitely dead. It seemed to be three hours or so before the Associated Press could really finish the story. The AM show was soft rock anyway so the mood was appropriately somber. I had a lot of people call in telling me I done a good job in a trying time.

The FM side though was supposed to be a rock show. So I tried to be straight forward newsman about it but didn't play any of my stuff just kept with what had already been selected. But when it was definitely over I played this song and dedicated it to her:

LITTLE ANGELS
Don't Prey For Me
1988
s-Broken Wings of An Angel

It's a rock slowjam.

Here's the lyrics: http://www.jepfans.com/albums/dpfm.h...f%20An%20Angel

[megagreg1]

I remember when the Challenger Blew up I was at school in some sort of assembly and one of the administrators came in and told all of the school. I was destroyed. For some reason it started me on a quest to know everything I could learn about space travel, astronomy, and the like.

On 9/11 I woke up and turned on the TV my lady was also awake and she started laughing because the pentagon was on fire. We didn't know the extent of what was happening. She then turned the tv off and I had to yell at her to turn it back on only then did I learn the truth of that day. I went to work that day at a Pizza place I worked at and it had to be the slowest day of work ever.

[DAS]

I remember the day the music died, I had driven my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. And good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing this'll be the day that I die, this'll be the day that I die. So Bye Bye Mrs American Pie.

[Mrs.BlackCrypt]

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Love that song...and sadly, I'm way too young for many of the happenings in it.

[towdog]

Kennedy - I was 9 months old so I really didn't give a shit.

Shuttle - Was at work. Went outside and it looked like we could see the smoke from the fire as it went down.

9-11 - Work still. In the middle of an inspection and watched on tv as the 2nd plane hit, then saw the Pentagon hit. The inspectors had to leave right after that because that was where they worked and they had to get on a plane fast.

Murrah Bombing - Was at work and heard it on the radio. Tried to call my dad to ask what was up because he worked in the building across the street from where they said the explosion was. 10 minutes later I found out it was actually the building he worked in that was bombed. Talk about a stunner.

[amylikewhoa]

when 9/11 happened i was in gym class, it was the first week of my freshman year in high school, and since i live so close to nyc and probably 3/4 of the kids i went to school with had parents that worked in nyc it was huge, half the school went home and we didnt really have class for the rest of the week, we would just go to school and watch the news in every class, my best friends dad worked on one of the top floors on one of the towers but he was running so late he had barely gotten into ny before the first plane hit. it was crazy here for a long time.

i was one the way home from six flags when princess diana died.

i was at work when the pope died and i think i left early bc i was so sad.
i was sick in bed when anna nicole smith died, and i was getting my nails done when heath ledger died.


idk if anything else happened in my life id rememeber

[GeminiEye]

I can remember the exact moment when I found out my grandpa's dog died.

I remember going to a friends house after pickin up a pizza and on the radio they announced that tupac died.

Also the exact moment when Aaliyah died, it was like 3 in the morning watchin MTV.

Other than that I cant really think of much right now.

[idahotransplant]

When 9/11 happened I was sitting in my dorm room in Korea watching tv (it was late at night over there) and as soon as the second plane hit I realized it was an attack and just walked into work before anyone had to call us all in. Apparently I wasn't the only one that did the same thing because half the shop was there within 10 minutes. Then we had to call everyone else that had been asleep.

[alittleoffhedy]

i remember when 9/11 happened i was in english class writing an essay about to kill a mockingbird. and when arafat died my sister called my house at 1:00 AM completely wasted.