cindylouwho: (Default)
2008-12-07 11:27 am

Writer's Block: Infamous

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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.