Where were you when...

@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’.

@trev33 said
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.

@trev33 said
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.

The death of Princess Diana was voted the most significant historical event in C20th world history by 43% of British people in one survey in 1999. I was in my apartment in Japan. It was, I think, about 9 am on a Sunday morning. We didn't watch much television in those days; we got a call from a friend telling us to turn it on. The UK news feed was showing a wrecked car in a tunnel and blue flashing lights and for a long time the thingamajig text thing at the bottom of the screen - kairon? - was saying she was "seriously injured".

@FMF

When Princess Diana died I spent almost 30 minutes trying to wake up my drunk mother because she was a Diana fan and she came from Scotland so for some ridiculous reason she was a royal ran 🙄

She cried all night.

@very-musty said
@FMF

When Princess Diana died I spent almost 30 minutes trying to wake up my drunk mother because she was a Diana fan and she came from Scotland so for some ridiculous reason she was a royal ran 🙄

She cried all night.

@great-big-stees said
I too was a fan but of different one...the Citroen Dyane 🤔

@very-musty said
LoL I looked it up.

Nice car 😉

@fmf said
The death of Princess Diana was voted the most significant historical event in C20th world history by 43% of British people in one survey in 1999. I was in my apartment in Japan. It was, I think, about 9 am on a Sunday morning. We didn't watch much television in those days; we got a call from a friend telling us to turn it on. The UK news feed was showing a wrecked car in a tunne ...[text shortened]... ingamajig text thing at the bottom of the screen - kairon? - was saying she was "seriously injured".

@ogb said
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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@suzianne said
It was late afternoon/early evening here, on a Saturday night. I was in school at university, my sorority had just finished Rush Week. There was a lot of crying as the news spread, and we sat around watching the news and drinking, as no one had class the next day, being Sunday. One of the most dreary nights I can remember from back then.