An event that you will always remember.

[trickblue]

9/11 & the mt. carmel assault here in Waco are vivid memories. ...personally, the deaths of my parents and the heart surgeries of my son will always be remembered.

Care to elaborate on your son? Lot's of members here would be willing to offer comfort/prayers...

Many of our membership have lost children... it's never good but you could relate to some in the same situation...

 

[WoodysGirl]

You guys named some good ones, but the one I remember was the OJ Simpson Bronco highways slow speed chase during the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Rockets. I was SCREAMING at the TV to turn back to the game.

 

[yimyammer]

The USA vs USSR olympic hockey game USA won...do you believe in miracles?

The night my granddad fell asleep at the wheel (for the umpteenth time) and we ended up in someones living room

 

[wittenacious]

You guys named some good ones, but the one I remember was the OJ Simpson Bronco highways slow speed chase during the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Rockets. I was SCREAMING at the TV to turn back to the game.

That's a great one! I was home, glued to the TV during the whole thing. Vividly remember it all. Got sucked into it with all the rest of the OJ-chase viewing world. I was oblivious to anything else going on while watching it.

I think the continual suggestion that OJ might kill himself was the lure the media used to hook us, then reel us in to watch the whole thing. Whatever all was involved — all those images and the unfolding story — it made for some intense real life drama; very compelling TV.

 

[silverbear]

Aside from 911, what television event do you remember what it was and where you were. What day sticks out in your mind from watching it on TV or the news.

The Kennedy assassination... I was home for lunch, going to school at Terrace Hills Elementary School in El Paso... I was in 6th grade...

When we put a man on the moon... I was on a family vacation, visiting other family out in Oregon... this was just before the start of my senior year in high school...

 

[silverbear]

You guys named some good ones, but the one I remember was the OJ Simpson Bronco highways slow speed chase during the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Rockets. I was SCREAMING at the TV to turn back to the game.

I can picture you now... LOL...

 

[MapleLeaf]

...I still remember where I was and what I was doing when they announced Elvis had died.

Things a person remembers.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Aside from 911, what television event do you remember what it was and where you were. What day sticks out in your mind from watching it on TV or the news.

:lombardi:

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

Challenger Explosion - 6th grade home room.

2004 Indian Ocean tsunami - Driving back from a hunting trip and heard it on the radio. It sounded big, but I had no idea until I got home and flipped on the TV.

2011 Japan tsunami - I had just got to work and it was starting to break on all the news channels. Again, I had no idea how big until I saw footage.

The killing of Bin Laden - Sitting with my son on the couch and high fiving. I remeber reveling in in the sorrow that his followers and supporters must have felt.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Lots of things, .. but my earliest "where was I" memory was Kennedy's assassination.

I was in the 4th grade. I lived the closest to the school so my teacher sent me home to get a transistor radio and bring it back.

I got home, but forgot to go back. I got in a lot of trouble for that one.

Hey, .. I was a nine yrs old.

 

[jimmy40]

Apollo 13

 

[Faerluna]

Challenger explosion - We had an assembly in the theater to watch the liftoff. We all sat there, stunned and wide-eyed. I remember it was very sad.

When John Lennon was shot - I was 10 and they broke in to the tv show with the announcement. My family listened to country music and at the time, I didn't even know who he was. I remember asking my mom who he was, and she replied, "He was one of the Beatles."

Then I had to ask who The Beatles were. Little did I know how much they would matter to me later on.

 

[wittenacious]

Apollo 13

The actual event was scary, as facts came to light, but I don't remember being drawn into the drama of it all at the time. Looking back, I wish I'd been more engrossed while it was all happening.

Apollo 13, the movie... now that was awesome! The retelling by director Ron Howard was brilliantly done. 5-Stars, IMO... especially because everybody got back alive.

(BTW- Love your sig, j40. So true.)

 

[Lonestar94]

I was working a show in New Orleans one time...

One of the guys I worked with called me and wanted to attempt standby (pre 9/11)

That weekend was the opening of Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet...

I was running late and I dashed out of the cab and flat out FLATTENED the guy right outside of the cab...

It was nose to nose... and it was Jimmy Buffet... to this day I wonder what he thought about that... I flat out bowled him over like a steam roller... at 6'1" 200 I am not a small guy...

The look on his face was horror... I told him I liked his music and proceeded on to the flight...

Omg :laugh2:

 

[wittenacious]

The OP:

Aside from 911, what television event do you remember what it was and where you were. What day sticks out in your mind from watching it on TV or the news.

Not doggin' on ya, minimalist, just explaining my fun-poking... meant to be good-natured. Your post made me laugh.

Ah, my first time memories. Then I got a girlfriend, like you had. :laugh2:

 

[03EBZ06]

Watching my three kids being delivered.

Making Chief Petty Officer and it's initiation process

9/11

Challenger Explosion

EA-18G aircraft being flown for the first time because I was involved with its developmental program

 

[RS12]

Being in the epi center of the Northridge quake in 94. Trust me when I tell you that is something I will never forget.

Moon landing in 1969.

 

[Phoenix]

Tony Dorsett's 99 yard TD run against the Vikings

Challenger explosion - I was in a ski lodge in Austria watching on a b&w 13" TV as it happened

"One small step for man" - we had a TV showing the landing in our classroom

Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie - I had a good friend on that flight. We were both airmen in the Air Force, stationed at Ramstein, West Germany and worked together.

 

[rynochop]

You guys named some good ones, but the one I remember was the OJ Simpson Bronco highways slow speed chase during the NBA Finals between the Knicks and the Rockets. I was SCREAMING at the TV to turn back to the game.

Lol, that's funny, same here. I was at my girlfriends family reunion or something at an American legions hall here in beaumont. Huge Rockets fan back then.

The Bush/Gore election night was another, remember staying up til like 3 am waiting on that one to resolve..ha

 

[jimmy40]

The actual event was scary, as facts came to light, but I don't remember being drawn into the drama of it all at the time. Looking back, I wish I'd been more engrossed while it was all happening.

Apollo 13, the movie... now that was awesome! The retelling by director Ron Howard was brilliantly done. 5-Stars, IMO... especially because everybody got back alive.

(BTW- Love your sig, j40. So true.)

I was almost 7 years old and we only got one channel on tv, sometimes two depending on the weather and it was a really big deal on our one channel with Walter Cronkite and at school so it stuck with me.
Ron Howard wasn't even nominated for best director for the movie, and Hanks wasn't nominated for best actor, hard to believe.