At 10:32 PM 1/28/2002 -0600, you wrote: >At 07:55 PM 1/28/02, you wrote: >>At 02:45 PM 1/28/2002 -0600, you wrote: >>>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, J.D. Giorgis wrote: >>> >>> > 15 years ago today was one of those moments that you >>> > never forget where you were when you heard the news, >>> > days like Pearl Harbor, JFK being shot, the shooting >>> > starting in the Gulf War.... Sept. 11th..... >>> >>><dweeb> Er, 16 years, but who's counting? </dweeb> >>> >>>I was a junior in high school. I remember running home after classes to >>>watch the TV and swear, then going upstairs to my stash of Analogs and >>>Asimov's and thinking, "Someday." >>> >>> >>>Marvin Long >>>Austin, Texas >> >>i was at the public library and the librarian told me. definitely out of >>grade school. of course i still remember where i was when i heard that >>JFK, MLK, and RFK were killed. >> >>john > > >So how about: > >John Glenn's (first) flight? >Gus Grissom's ""? >Alan Shepherd's ""? >Seeing Echo 1? >Sputnik? > > >(P.S. I do not remember all of these. I'll reserve specifying which ones >until a few others weigh in. ;-) ) > > >-- Ronn! :) > >God bless America, >Land that I love! >Stand beside her, and guide her >Thru the night with a light from above. > From the mountains, to the prairies, >To the oceans, white with foam� >God bless America! >My home, sweet home. > >-- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
i can only remember one of these: Alan Shepard's first flight. i kept putting off going to school until the rocket lifted off. eventually, the holds were lifted, the rocket blasted off, and i left for school. when the nuns asked me why i was late, i told them i was watching the lift off, and they gave me a break. don't remember where i was for Gus Grissom or Glenn's flights. i was just born when sputnik flew and vaguely remember news accounts about echo 1. john
