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Do you remember when
August 05 2015
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horneycouplewa
9 years ago
I remember my first color tv. Don't think I left my room for a month. The first earthquake I actually really felt, think I was around 15 at my boyfriends house. The second earthquake was in San Diego, I was very pregnant and thought it was just kicking. The day of Diana's funeral I was giving birth to my son (in San Diego) 911...we were in Japan (my husband was active duty)and I was terrified.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Sept 11 I was pregnant with my 2nd child and woke to seeing it on TV. It took a while to sink in that it was actually happening. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
First one as a child with my sister. Looking at the sky and hoping Mishka the bear the mascot from the Moscow olympics would fall onto our property. We sat in the lounge watching her be released at the end of the closing ceremony. The second was the moment the Gulf war began. I was at my best friends house in Mordialloc when it was announced and 'Eve of Destruction' was played on the radio
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RHP User
9 years ago
Elvis dying I think I was 6, my mum was so distraught it really stuck with me. I was actually in Nice when princess Di was killed it was horrible. Sept 11 I was up feeding my baby and watched it all unfold and then trying to get in touch with my friend who worked near the World Trade Centres that was a very scary 15hrs until I could talk to her. - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Watching the news and breastfeeding when the 2nd plane hit, we don't know anyone over there, but it was absolutely horrific, can't even begin to understand what it would've been like for those affected personally.
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RHP User
9 years ago
I was living in England when Princess Di died. It was the weekend and we were getting on the tube to go to a friend's house and we saw all the head lines but we thought they meant that Princess Di and Dodi's relationship was over. We assumed the headlines were being overly dramatic. when we got to our friends place she told us it was for real. We were totally shocked. Going to the palace and seeing all the flowers was surreal. I went to the Funeral as well. Sat outside in the park watching the big screens. People were crying. I have never seen so many people in all my life and there was utter silence. Nobody spoke during the entire funeral. When it was over everyone got up and walked to their tube stations and still not one person seemed to speak. I have never seen anything like it before or since.
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RHP User
9 years ago
And working for Ansett airlines on Sep 11 remember it well :(
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RHP User
9 years ago
I remember going into work and being told "Diana's died" and going into panic mode. "Damn! Who's going to work tonight" before realising it wasn't my night nurse but someone I didn't know. But also remember getting really cross when a relative came to see me as she was going to miss her mum's 90 th birthday because she was going to a funeral. After reassuring her that we would ensure her mum had a special day, she let slip that it was Diana's funeral. Very selfish.The twin towers, I was sat in fracture clinic thinking I was watching a film!
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Haleakala
9 years ago
I was also in the UK when she died, I was trying to fix my car and needed some parts, I got a lift to a car parts store (Halfords) and the flags outside were half mast, oblivious to the news I commented to the person giving me a lift that Mr Halford must have kicked the bucket. I really didn't understand the outpourings of grief, I wasn't anti-royal but it seemed to me the media whipped up a lot of the grief. I was annoyed on the day of her funeral, some mates and I had driven to Nottingham the night before to go to a rock club and slept in our cars, wandering the streets hungover looking for a greasy spoon that was open we were particularly annoyed the everywhere was shut for her funeral! - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
Princess Di's accident and death is the first big world event I remember jumping into my little loungeroom and punching me in the chest. 911 at my friends place and then in a first year 8am maths uni lecture the next morning, everyone looking at each other with this eerie sick sense that the world as we knew it had just changed, that memory will never leave me. Ahh yep, there go the chills. March 11 Japan Tohoku earthquake, on the 24th floor of the Ritz Carlton building in Osaka city centre, celebrating a happy graduation ceremony in a room full of hundreds of students and teacher colleagues, I'm coming down off a performance-high from being a singing goofball on stage, suddenly people start looking up and pointing to the swinging chandeliers. From almost a thousand kilometers away, the earthquake shockwaves came, slowly and sickeningly, causing the thirty-something story hotel building to sway like a boat on a choppy sea, lasting ten minutes at a time. There's something really primal about earthquakes, your body just KNOWS everything about this feeling is very very wrong. It was nauseating more than anything else, the joy in the room became mild panic, and we all tramped home with the masses, white with shock and hungry for news.
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tylannister
9 years ago
Quoting 'TisonlyI' First one as a child with my sister. Looking at the sky and hoping Mishka the bear the mascot from the Moscow olympics would fall onto our property. We sat in the lounge watching her be released at the end of the closing ceremony. The second was the moment the Gulf war began. I was at my best friends house in Mordialloc when it was announced and 'Eve of Destruction' was played on the radio I had just been on a tour of an Air Force Base the day before while we were on a beach holiday. I had dreams of enlisting and flying A-10's. We were driving the 5 hours back from the beach when they announced the invasion on the radio. I suddenly knew that I couldn't follow through with my plans to join the Air Force. I knew the A-10's would be used in the conflict. It wasn't that I was scared of getting killed. But I couldn't reconcile the choice that would mean that I would have to actually go and kill someone.
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RHP User
9 years ago
I was driving home from a home brew club meeting and I had to pull over to make sure it wasn't Orson Wells pulling a fast one. I got home quite late and turned on the telly to see the planes flying in, I woke the wife and she told me to fuck off.
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RHP User
9 years ago
It was early morning when I heard the news and cried, he was soooo handsome. Princess Di I woke up hungover heard she'd been in a car accident and thought she'd be fine, went back to bed and next time I woke I heard she had died. I was shocked and sad. 911 sometimes I still can't believe it. Tsunami that hit Bande Ache I couldn't stop watchful the TV from sheer disbelief. - Posted from rhpmobile
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NawtyNNice777
9 years ago
9/11. Was the first day of a new school year (I'm not from Oz) and we'd had a short one. Was asleep on the lounge when I suddenly woke up, turned the TV on and it was all over every channel - Posted from rhpmobile
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RHP User
9 years ago
I still remember hearing about JFK being shot, I arrived at school to hear a couple of older kids talking about it.These events do seem to imprint on our memories.
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RHP User
9 years ago
I remember 9/11 vividly well. I was with my family in the living room, we'd ordered pizza - Dominos, simply cheese, and we'd just finished watching pro wrestling. Suddenly the TV flicked on to New York smoking after Tower One had been hit, with everybody trying to figure out what was going on, then we actually saw the second plane fly in out of nowhere and hit the other tower. I remember the reaction I and everyone else had when that plane came out of nowhere - just this shock, moment where your heart skips a beat, and all you could do was exclaim something before it hit. The newsreaders were distinctly speechless - all they seemed to do was let out a cry of shock before it. It was crazy, being as young as we were we all thought that this was it and World War III was looming. Turns out that wasn't the case, but still, it was eerie.
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Tall74nHard9
9 years ago
most of the above. Neil walking on the moon was my first year in high school - we were all allowed into the school hall to watch it happen on the TV's there. Also remember JFK being shot, and all the TV coverage for hours on end of the shooting.Elvis died the same year I got my first new car. Can remember when Charlie and Di got married - was the same year I got married, and not far apart. 911 the coverage was everywhere and all day and night, showing the same pictures over and over again. Few years later with the London bombings of the stations.
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RHP User
9 years ago
The day John Lennon died (9th December '80 over here). Was about 3 in the afternoon and I had just gotten out of bed (Played the night before). I had bought the 'Double Fantasy' album the previous day... Never forget it.
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RHP User
9 years ago
Quoting 'Wet_Paint' I was driving home from a home brew club meeting and I had to pull over to make sure it wasn't Orson Wells pulling a fast one. I got home quite late and turned on the telly to see the planes flying in, I woke the wife and she told me to fuck off. Orson Welles dies in 1985...
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