Writer's Block: Infamous

[cindylouwho]

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Having lived all my life in MA, the blizzard of '78 is my earliest memory at 3. John Lennon's death 28 years ago when I was 5. The Challenger explosion. I was in 5th grade; we watched it live in school. I remember being so confused.

The fall of the Berlin wall, the first Gulf War, the deaths of Kurt Cobain and Michael Hutchence.....

Y2K, because I worked in computers at the time, and so much work went into making sure everything would be working come the year change.

9/11 is what I would say is comparable in memory, to how my mom remembers exactly what she was doing, where she was when JFK was assassinated. I had had an orthodontist appt that morning and was late for work. I remember parking in a far away parking lot and running into a co-worker on the way. I got to work and went to go online, and couldn't get to boston.com or any news/media source. I went to ask a co-worker if there was an issue w/ the internet, and that was when people were starting to find out, and work stopped being so important.

Comments

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I've always figured you can identify which generation a person belonged to by asking if they can remember where they were on certain days. For my parents' generation it would be JFK's assassination, for mine the Challenger explosion, for the generation after mine Princess Diana's death. 9/11 unites us all, I think.

[2801rosie.livejournal.com]

I agree with the comment above. Different days stand out for different people, but 9/11 will be remembered by all. No one was unaffected by that.