I was only 5 but I still remember getting pulled out of school and watching TV with my parents on 9/11. My mom actually saw the tower go down.
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For me it would have to be either the assassination of President Wellstone in 1996, and ofcourse 9/11. Seeing the President shot on live TV was enough, but damn, a plane crashing into the Capitol building is tough on a kid. The 90's were a tough time for America..
I totally agree. Christa McAuliffe's broadcast after the rescue was amazing. I still get a bit teary-eyed thinking of it.Like most people my, age, it would have to be the dramatic rescue of the Challenger crew, thought doomed by the extensive damage to their heat shield during liftoff until the heroically rushed Colombia mission and that unforgettable shuttle-to-shuttle spacewalk.
I remember the Cubs winning the world series in 2008. Before that everything is a blue blur...
You most certainly do NOT! Not in 2008. I was at a victory parade with, reportedly, over a million other people on a glorious fall day about 750 miles east of Chicago.
That's in real life.
Also in real life: I remember Nixon's inauguration and the Moon landing (I turned five between the two).
And someone else mentioned the attempted assassination of Reagan: my mother was apparently sufficiently concerned that she came to school to look for me - it was after hours and I was hanging around for some reason - and take me home. Normally I walked. Was she afraid war would break out?