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@trev33 said
In this thread you pick an historical event and tell us where you were when it happened and something you remember from the experience.

When the twin towers were brought down on 9/11 I remember coming home for lunch from school and seeing the second plane crashing in thinking they were showing a reply of the first.
I was returning from the baths when my husband rang with the news and got home to see the second tower collapsing. I thought maybe the world was about to end? I’d had a strange text from an obscure number earlier saying ‘you rock my world baby’.

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@rajk999 said
Only the well travelled will appreciate what they have in advanced western countries.
Pros and cons to both, try telling an unemployed black man in Florida to appreciate what they have in a so called advanced western country.

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@trev33 said
Pros and cons to both, try telling an unemployed black man in Florida to appreciate what they have in a so called advanced western country.
I will tell him to appreciate what he has. Now Im also in a poorish country and as you say there are many advantages here, but when the cons get me down [poor health care, corruption, crime etc] and Im wishing I were in Florida where I cannot be, I just imagine what life is life in Haiti or Venezuela.

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@moonbus said
Amen to that. I have seen the Berlin Wall from both sides, both before and after it fell.
Yep. I remember East Germans were taking pot shots at that wall years before it actually fell. Good for them. Communism is failure.

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@trev33 said
In this thread you pick an historical event and tell us where you were when it happened and something you remember from the experience.
in 1972 bobby fischer won the world championship of some sort of funky game of war

in 1972 i joined the us navy to avoid the draft that would have sent me into the jungles of vietnam

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@wycombe-al said
@The-Gravedigger have you been to HK since, currently seems to be going tits up there, i last went to HK 1986 as a 12yr old, loved it but sure changed a hell of a lot since then
Not been back since 1991.
Yes China does seem to be clamping down there more and more.

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amen brother

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@rookie54 said


in 1972 i joined the us navy to avoid the draft that would have sent me into the jungles of vietnam
it was 1972 for me, and I wanted to enlist in the Army, but wasn't accepted due to pyscologic profile..

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@trev33 said
In this thread you pick an historical event and tell us where you were when it happened and something you remember from the experience.

When the twin towers were brought down on 9/11 I remember coming home for lunch from school and seeing the second plane crashing in thinking they were showing a reply of the first.
I was watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in my 6th grade class at school when it exploded 73 seconds into the flight. Our teacher had really talked up this flight since Christa McAuliffe, a high-school teacher, was on board. After notifying everyone's parents about free counseling, they released us all for the day. It was shocking to me at the time that 7 people had just died as I was watching. I had just turned 10 two months before.

EDIT: I thought I had something wrong. I had just turned 9 two months before.

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@drewnogal said
I was returning from the baths when my husband rang with the news and got home to see the second tower collapsing. I thought maybe the world was about to end? I’d had a strange text from an obscure number earlier saying ‘you rock my world baby’.
Synchronicity, yet lacking a meaningful connection. It's interesting that you remember them together.

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@rajk999 said
I will tell him to appreciate what he has. Now Im also in a poorish country and as you say there are many advantages here, but when the cons get me down [poor health care, corruption, crime etc] and Im wishing I were in Florida where I cannot be, I just imagine what life is life in Haiti or Venezuela.
I'm sure you could swim to Venezuela, you can't compare Haiti or Venezuela to better off neighboring countries never mind the west though, wasn't that long ago when Colombians were going into Venezuela to find work, any country can change in an instant. At the end of the day it depends on how much money is coming in to how comfortable life is, yes life at the bottom is generally worse in 'developing nations' but life at the top and be and often is better than in the west.

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@suzianne said
I was watching the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in my 6th grade class at school when it exploded 73 seconds into the flight. Our teacher had really talked up this flight since Christa McAuliffe, a high-school teacher, was on board. After notifying everyone's parents about free counseling, they released us all for the day. It was shocking to me at the time that 7 people had just died as I was watching. I had just turned 10 two months before.
Interesting.

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@the-gravedigger said
Not been back since 1991.
Yes China does seem to be clamping down there more and more.
And yet somebody had the ballz to flag this?? caramba

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I was just a tad in 7th grade when our teacher, a nun in a Catholic school, announced that President Kennedy was killed.
Class was dismissed. I went home, and mother was very upset. Verging tears. I'll never forget those horrible memories

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@ogb said
amen brother
I have a few buddies .. lol