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[gothwalk]

1. When John F. Kennedy was shot (11/22/1963)
Not born.

2. When Mt. St. Helens blew (5/18/1980)
I was 3. I've no idea. I remember it being in the Transformers comic some years later, and I'm still somewhat horrified that the US doesn't put more money into seismic monitoring, given the number of volcanoes on the West Coast.

3. Tiananmen Square (6/4/1989)
I don't remember all too clearly. I remember seeing it on the news, but it didn't have much impact on me. I was 11.

4. When the 7.1 earthquake hit San Francisco (10/7/1989)
I remember this, seeing the pictures on the news (one of the summers we had a TV, evidently), so at homehome in Wexford.

5. When the Berlin Wall fell (11/7/1989)
Same place as the day before. My younger brother was convinced it had fallen down because of the quake.

6. When the Gulf War began (1/16/1991)
In school? I remember our history teacher talking about it.

7. When OJ Simpson was chased in his White Bronco (6/17/1994)
Eh? What?

8. When the building in Oklahoma City was bombed (4/19/1995)
Barely noticed that, tbh. Bombings were fairly frequent news here then.

9. When Princess Di was killed (8/31/1997)
Staying over at a friend's house. The household was German/International, and the discussion at breakfast immediately went into levels of politics I couldn't possibly follow.

10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
At home. Muttering to myself about the US and the general half-assed-ness of the whole thing.

11. When the 6.8 earthquake hit Nisqually, WA (2/28/2001)
First I've heard of it.

12. When terrorists knocked over the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)
In a hardware shop in Capel Street with inannajones, metalrabbit, and mr_wombat. We went to wyvernfriend's house to watch the news. Only time in the last few years I've really regretted not having a TV.

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[iresprite.livejournal.com]

10. When Bush was first announced President (11/7/2000)
At home. Muttering to myself about the US and the general half-assed-ness of the whole thing.

I was in Ireland. Doing the same thing. *grins*

12. When terrorists knocked over the World Trade Center (9/11/2001)

I was awakened by one of my housemates with another housemate's girlfriend on the phone, who was telling us about this. Except that one of the details got mixed up and I thought the WTC in New York *and* the WTC in Boston, fifteen minutes away from me, had both been whacked.

I remember watching the TV, which just kept airing the same segment over and over. Wasn't very censored then, either. It was weird- I didn't think "how could this happen, this can't be happening." I thought, "well, they finally did it." It just seemed like it was a matter of time before something catastrophic happened. Sure, it was horrific to think of the wreckage and the void of the twin towers, but part of me figured a world like this can't just keep going on without something like that happening at some point.

Does any of that make sense?

[sage-and-sea.livejournal.com]

2. I'm still somewhat horrified that the US doesn't put more money into seismic monitoring, given the number of volcanoes on the West Coast.

I'm surprised by it too. I live in Portland, just a few miles from any number of "sleeping" volcanoes, at least one of which is topped by a popular ski resort. Portland is one of the only cities in the US with a volcano in the city limits, Mt. Tabor, a "dead" volcano.