Challenger blowing up. 5th grade - Miss Lehman's classroom. I still remember her telling us that Judy Resnik (Who was from Akron OH like us) might have crawled out a window.
Larry Bird's last game - at the Cavs (I was there)
Magic HIV announcement - High school dorm lounge.
Columbia blowing up on re-entry - Skiing at Holiday Valley. Was just arriving or leaving in the parking lot when it was on the radio (remember back when we used radios)
OJ chase - restaurant at MIT
9/11 - Children's hospital in Columbus as a med student. Our residents sent us all home.
Bin Laden killed - My couch in Boston.
Michael Jackson dead - Sidewalk in NYC
Larry Bird's last game - at the Cavs (I was there)
Magic HIV announcement - High school dorm lounge.
Columbia blowing up on re-entry - Skiing at Holiday Valley. Was just arriving or leaving in the parking lot when it was on the radio (remember back when we used radios)
OJ chase - restaurant at MIT
9/11 - Children's hospital in Columbus as a med student. Our residents sent us all home.
Bin Laden killed - My couch in Boston.
Michael Jackson dead - Sidewalk in NYC
John Lennon shot: sitting with my Dad watching NFL
Challenger blowing up: a lady at work told me about it. I remember feeling physically ill.
Magic HIV announcement: at work in a law office in Southern California. The people there couldn't believe it.
Columbia blowing up on re-entry: at a motel. I thought it was an meteor at first.
OJ chase: at my apartment with my neighbor and his kids.
9/11: at my Mom's. I thought it was a small plane since so few people were reported as being on the plane.
Bin Laden killed: at a motel.
Challenger blowing up: a lady at work told me about it. I remember feeling physically ill.
Magic HIV announcement: at work in a law office in Southern California. The people there couldn't believe it.
Columbia blowing up on re-entry: at a motel. I thought it was an meteor at first.
OJ chase: at my apartment with my neighbor and his kids.
9/11: at my Mom's. I thought it was a small plane since so few people were reported as being on the plane.
Bin Laden killed: at a motel.
9/11 is the most vivid. I was sleeping in that day and my girlfriends parents called. My girlfriend came into the bed room and passed the message, "my mom says to turn on the TV, we are under attack !" So you can imagine the surrealism of the minute it took me to jump out of bed, turn on TV and tune in to the news to figure out what was going on. The only other time these words "we are under attack" applied to USA history was pearl harbor. It is etched in my mind forever
