Comments on: Meme: Where Were You When You Heard About…?

By: krizzlybear

krizzlybear — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:03:02 +0000

I wasn’t old enough to have remembered where I was during most of those things. I know for sure that I was still in the womb during the challenger disaster.

For the 9/11 attack, I was in grade 10 science class, and we had JUST covered flight/lift physics the day before.

For Hurricane Katrina, I was at a friend’s house when I heard about it on CNN. I live in Canada, so the impact of the disaster was not as much as my southern neighbours.

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By: The Hunter’s Mark » Tag! I’m it! Where the hell was I?

The Hunter’s Mark » Tag! I’m it! Where the hell was I? — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:41:55 +0000

[...] Kestrel tagged me to participate in a “Where Were You…” meme that’s currently making the rounds. Never one to pass on a dare, so to speak, I was happy to oblige. [...]

By: Arrens

Arrens — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:48:20 +0000

Yep, I'm intimately familiar with the difference. And I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of TLAM-N's on board US Naval vessels. Arrens's last blog post: A Young Study

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:22:00 +0000

The Tomahawk is the same airframe GLCM used; yours were TLAM-C, while ours were TLAM-N: Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile-Conventional/Nuclear.

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:19:10 +0000

My hat’s off to your dad: An ROTC classmate (he was a senior when I was a freshman) was one of the B-52 pilots repatriated, so of course I had a personal stake in the homecomings.

As for the plugins: I still don’t have as many here as I do in-game. I have a couple I want to play with this week to reduce and reorganize my Categories. Any time you want to talk plugins, let me know.

By: Arrens

Arrens — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:59:55 +0000

9/11 – Yokosuka, Japan was where I was at. I was in the Navy at the time, over there for what was supposed to be 2 weeks to train the 7th Fleet on some communications stuff. It was night time there when I first heard about it and still suffering from jet lag. We didn’t teach anymore after that. It was going from training to tactical mode in about 3 minutes flat and set up the entire fleet to depart ASAP to start chucking Tomahawk missiles at Afghanistan.

I remember distinctly tuning into the Challenger disaster as it happened when I was in the 4th grade. My teacher was very excited that a female teacher was going into orbit and wanted us to watch history. Turns out, it wasn’t quite the history lesson she had planned.

Reagan’s Assasination attmept I remember well. My father was a Cleveland SWAT cop and taped the news segment with Hinkley firing. He must’ve watched that tape about 1000 times in 5 minutes. Bizarre.

Lennon’s death didn’t really hit me as I was far too young to realize the impact it had. At that point, the Beatles were nothing more than a bug to be squished in the back yard. Times, how they have changed.

Cobain’s death meant nothing to me. I despised Nirvana with the fire of a thousand burning suns (truth be told, I still do). But I remember thinking as some of your friends did: Didn’t surpise me.

And JFK was shot 13 years before I was born, so there’s that.

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By: Game Dame

Game Dame — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Wow, good stuff! My dad was Air Force too. (Missle command during Viet Nam, as well as headed up the POW homecomings.) We lived in St. Augustine during the time of the Challenger tragedy, but I was at school in Tallahassee — too far to see the launch. My friend, however, the same one in my Cobain and 9/11 stories, watched it live through is binoculars by the beach. Hey, have I mentioned that I dig all your wordpress add-ins? They really add value and I like to poke around and see what you’ve got going on with them.

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