Where Were You When........

[jhteh]

I have to make a second reply about this, squigg58 put it down great, and it brought back memories. Up front, sorry for my sentimental mood.

Senna's crash and death were hard, I had watched his fabulous racing for a few years and he was different from other good drivers. In the eighties I had seen a documentary on his life and how he practised and also what he did for the poor people in Brazil. These kind of programs are often exaggerated, making someone better then in reality but with Senna it was different.

After his death in Imola, the next race I was watching the race on TV. But what happened is, I tried watching it. I just could not watch it any more. And ever since it I've hardly seen F1 races. I just couldn't.

Senna literally was a fabulous driver and he had hit many people with his driving and his lifestyle. I've spoken to a few Brazilian women about Senna and even now without thinking they know exactly what it's about. That says it all.

[JohnnyR]

Man on the Moon: Sitting on my parents couch watching the newsman announce that the Eagle had landed.

Elvis: In my bedroom with the radio on. I shouted out the window to the guys hanging out on the street corner. They then listened to the news on a car radio.

John Lennon: At a bar watching Monday night football when Howard Cosell announced it. We turned the channel to catch the news, then turned on the radio which had the only continuous coverage in those pre CNN/internet days.

9/11 On my way to work in Manhattan, when I saw the first burning tower, and hoped it was a freak accident or suicide. I saw the second plane turn and hit and had to turn around and walk home, 5 miles. It was a sunny day and I got a bad sunburn walking home. Saw it all, wish I didn't.

[vo1v0d]

Apart from 9/11 it is all mostly drug/booze amnesia except when I heard Lynard Skynards plane crashed. I laughed so hard I nearly broke a rib.

[ManofKent]

With regards to 9/11:

I can remember the day it happened. I was working part time in a charity shop in my local town. Opposite this shop across the road was another sold all manner of things, one of those department stores that sells particularly EVERYTHING.

I remember it was quite a warm sunny day, and in the late afternoon (when business was quite) I quickly popped over to buy/look for something (which I've since completely forgot what it was).

They had the radio playing, and shortly after entering the news came on. They said that an aeroplane had crashed into the World Trade Centre and that it was on fire.
At the time I didn't think too much about it-I genuinely thought it was one of those small two-seater Cessna type planes.

I cant remember if I actually found what I was looking for, but I left and went back to my gift shop.

It wasn't until I got home that night that I turned on the TV to watch the news about the crash, and saw the ongoing live coverage of the burning towers.

[bloke57]

Diana, Princess of Wales - we all remember that day don't we?

Well I claim to have been the world's most uninformed man. It happened on a Sunday and I like a quiet Sunday. The TV did not get switched on and I heard absolutely nothing about it until about 8.30 in the evening despite wall-to-wall coverage.

I'm sure there were others in a similar boat but what makes my ignorance so extraordinary is that I was phoned about the very subject by the showbiz editor of the Mail on Sunday at about 1.00 p.m. on the day.

That journo was a friend of mine and he called up to see if I could find a phone number or address for a local man who was a known friend of Diana's. All my friend had said, in a hurry, was "Bloke - that Diana thing. Can you find this chap (name) in the Stanmore directory?" I assumed she had announced her engagement to Dodi and thought no more of it.

[Roubignol]

I remember when they announced that Elvis Presley died. I was on the balcony in short but without wearing any T-Shirt. I was a very warm afternoon.

I remember about the 9/11, a Dutch colleague entered into our office and told us: There is war in the USA.

I remember the fight between Marvin Hagler and John Mugabe. I woke up in the early morning to watch at the TV boxing... "the marvelous".
I remember the 100m final between Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis in Seoul. I woke up in the early morning to watch at the mediatic event.

I remember the first flight of Challenger, because I was at school and one of my schoolmate, who wanted to be an astronaut, came in too late in the middle of the course, telling us that the spaceshuttle flew off a few minutes ago.

[AmateurEmale]

I remember the space shuttle Challenger tragedy in 1986; I was at elementary school that day, and it happened in the middle of classes.

I also remember 9/11; I was in the bathroom getting ready for college classes, and my father called from work saying that "something bad had happened" at the WTC.

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by bloke57

Diana, Princess of Wales - we all remember that day don't we?

Honestly... not at all.

[Aitken Bonar]

On 9/11 I got a call early in the morning from a relative on my day off. The impression I got was of some rookie having flown a light aircraft into a tall building in Manhattan.

How very wrong.

Time usually blurs and fades your immediate impressions of such events. These are very real, still.

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by Aitken Bonar

On 9/11 I got a call early in the morning from a relative on my day off. The impression I got was of some rookie having flown a light aircraft into a tall building in Manhattan.
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That was pretty much the impression I got when I first heard it on the radio. Small civilian craft hitting it by accident and causing limited damage to the building.