S/O I Was There When...

[Junie]

From the I Was There When History Was Made:

 

What historical events have you witnessed or been a part of?  Did you understand the significance of the event at the time?  Did it change you in any way?

 

 

[EmilyGF]

I was supposed to fly on September 12, 2001.

 

Emily

[Jean in Newcastle]

I've met famous people but not when they were doing anything famous.  

[SemiSweet]

I lived in Panama from 1986 to 1989 when Manuel Noriega was removed from power. We witnessed hundreds of riots and protests. There was a national curfew in place and the people would sit on their balconies and bang on pots and pans, which was great fun to my 6-8 year old self and younger brother. There were tear gas attacks at least weekly where my mother would have to cover our faces with cold, wet rags or put us in the tub(many houses there have cinder block or screening which opens to the outside, so the house can't actually be closed up). My sister was shot with a BB gun in her arm during one such riot, and I was chased by rioters on the way to a friend's house. At that age, I had no idea what the historical meanings of those events were.

[milovany]

Oh! That triggered a memory in me, Emily.  I was in Colorado Springs on Sept. 11, 2001 and even though all flights were banned that day after the plane crashes in the morning, we could hear big things flying up in the sky.  There are a lot of military posts near the Springs (plus we heard Pres. Bush might be taken underground at Cheyenne Mountain) so it was pretty surreal/eerie to hear the activity up in the sky. 

[Loowit]

I saw Mt. St. Helens erupt.  I was pretty young at the time, but I remember it fairly well.  We had to evacuate our house and live in our camper in my grandparents driveway for quite a while.  I remember being excited and worried a lot.  My dad was a volunteer firefighter at the time and helped work on the evacuation and some emergency service coordination.   I never finished the first grade because of it.  We were just all passed on to the next grade up when school started again in the fall.  It was a big part of my growing up experience.

[umsami]

I was flying the morning of September 11th...into Atlanta.   As we touched down, we were delayed going to the gate.  The guy behind me was on his phone and said that somebody had crashed a plane into the WTC.  Everybody in my row muttered that he must be a nut.  We all assumed (if it was true) that it was a little two seater prop plane or something.

 

When we got off the plane, it was insanity.

 

I had a rental car reserved and when I finally got near the counter, they were just telling us to take the first car we could find.  I couldn't find a hotel (I was supposed to fly out that night) and had to drive out of the city to Dalton (maybe an hour North) to find one.  My company's travel department (back in the olden days when there were travel agents) helped me find a room.  I ended up driving the rental car home the next day.  

 

When I got to the airport, there were national guard (or somebody) blocking the entrance with rifles. I had to show my rental car agreement, explain everything, and then they told me I had so many minutes to return my rental and retrieve my own car from the parking garage.  It was all so weird.

 

I had colleagues who were caught in Europe and ended up flying back to Canada and driving all the way down to Florida.  

[regentrude]

The peaceful revolution in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Powerful times.

[ErinE]

I was attending a conference in New York City on September 11, 2001.

[ErinE]

The peaceful revolution in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Powerful times.

I remember watching the celebration on television in German class. It was a beautiful sight to see all those people, together.

[wendy not in HI]

I lived in CA in 1989 and felt the Loma Prieta Earthquake.  No damage where we were, but it was scary.

 

My dh had been in the military for just a few months when 9/11 happened.  He heard about it at work and came home to tell me.  He was really torn up about it and just couldn't talk, so he drew a picture and wrote a note - I have that in my journal.  We lived on a Navy base, and knew that trying to leave/come back one the base was a bad idea, so we stayed home for a few days.  We decided to go on a walk on some trails near our home, that lead out toward water, and found that the base was well protected - we happened upon a couple of guys on patrol and another one in sort of a hidden tree stand sort of thing - well armed - watching the water way.  It was a big eye opener to me about what in the heck we had gotten ourselves in to (by joining the military - we were so young and clueless and naive!!)

 

[Mabelen]

I lived through the death of 40 year long dictator Francisco Franco and the peaceful transition to the restauration of political parties and full democracy in Spain. It was an amazing period!

 

I lived September 11 in the DC area. It brought everything really close to home. I had previously lived in other countries where terrorist threats and attacks were part of life. I remember thinking that was the end of innocence for the U.S.

[Guest]

Oh! That triggered a memory in me, Emily. I was in Colorado Springs on Sept. 11, 2001 and even though all flights were banned that day after the plane crashes in the morning, we could hear big things flying up in the sky. There are a lot of military posts near the Springs (plus we heard Pres. Bush might be taken underground at Cheyenne Mountain) so it was pretty surreal/eerie to hear the activity up in the sky.

It was similar in my location, since we are in Maryland just outside of D.C. There were F-16 fighter jets flying all around for several days following Sept. 11.

[Farrar]

Both dh and I got stuck in the city in various ways because of all the craziness in DC on 9-11. I was driving past the Pentagon less than half an hour after the plane hit (I didn't see anything though).

 

Lots of people have 9-11 stories though.

[Eagle]

I think every part of history that I have personally witnessed (through TV or Internet) I have known at the time that it was significant. A few that come to mind:

 

I remember as a young child we were driving in the car and the radio announced that Elvis had died. I was too young to understand, but I remember my Mum being very upset and I knew something was very wrong. I still remember which intersection we were driving through when Mum reacted.

 

Watching the Challenger shuttle explode. I was in school at the time and it was one of the first times I realized something like that could go wrong. Life doesn't always have a happy movie ending. Sometimes things are unpredictable and there are dangers and risks, even to good people.

 

The Berlin Wall coming down was a big deal, even though it felt so far away. It was such a positive moment and everything seemed so optimistic.

 

Tiananmen Square was an eye-opener to how people in other countries didn't have the same opportunities as we did. I also had been sheltered from cruelty and was shocked to see people purposely harm others.

 

The Pan Am flight, Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine (and many school shootings since) were all tragic and horrific, but far away, isolated, and not personally impacting my day to day life. 911, on the other hand, felt like it was happening "to us" (North Americans as a whole). I don't even live in the U.S., but I felt "we" were under attack. I remember everything about when dh told me that the first tower was hit. I watched live as the second tower fell. I went to work, gathered my employees (who were all students), and spent the rest of the day watching everything unfold on tv while we sat on the floor of a student area together. One of my students lost a friend in the towers that day. It felt so close to home even though physically it wasn't. It was a day that changed my life and my world forever in ways I can't even describe.

[Caroline]

I was in Centennial Olympic Park about an hour before the bombing. We were on the MARTA on the way home when it happened.

[creekland]

My dad and I watched the first ever night launch of a space shuttle (Challenger).  It was quite the special event - we sat on the top of our van and could see it easily.  It was quite sobering when Challenger exploded in 1986.

 

Since then, hubby and I saw many launches and there was one launch of Endeavor back in Dec 2001 (after 9/11) that our whole family saw in person sitting right next to the astronauts' relatives and VIPs at Banana Creek.  My boys were 9, 7, and 5 + my mom was there.

 

Of course, I also recall a couple of the moon landings - watching those on TV.  All these others were in person in FL.

 

 

[Eagle]

I also have a story of how 911 led to us living in this home. The people who sold us our property had been planning to build on it themselves, but reevaluated their lives after 911 and decided they needed to simplify. They sold it to us three months after 911, retired, and moved to Florida. I have always felt a little weird that we had an opportunity come about due (indirectly) to 911.

[Lady Florida.]

Am I correct in thinking you don't just mean were you alive at the time/did you watch it on tv? If so, there are many more I could add. In each instance below I was an adult and did understand the historical significance of what I was witnessing. Most are space related due to where I live.

 

I watched the shuttle Challenger explode in the sky above me. The high school where I was teaching (which is also my alma mater) is right across the river from the launch pad. I was standing in the parking lot with my students and the rest of the teachers, students, administrators, and staff.  The space program was, and in many ways still is, the lifeblood of my city and county.

 

I watched the final launch of Columbia not actually knowing it would be it's final flight. So in that instance I didn't yet know it would be historically significant. 

 

Other historically significant launches I personally watched from the shores of the same river were: Apollo 13, Apollo 14 (the historical significance was that Alan Shepard was its commander), and Apollo 17. Apollo 17 was the final Apollo launch and the first night launch of a rocket with people in it. I also watched the launch of STS 95 (shuttle Discovery), which had John Glenn as a payload specialist. In addition to the historical aspect of Glenn's return to space, he also was and still is the oldest person to go into space. 

 

I attended President Obama's 2008 inauguration, our first African American president. 

[PrincessMommy]

It was similar in my location, since we are in Maryland just outside of D.C. There were F-16 fighter jets flying all around for several days following Sept. 11.

 

I remember that too, being the DC metro area.   We lived near a local small airport so we were used to the constant sound of small engines flying over.... that week the skies were *so* quiet.  Every time I'd hear a jet go over my neighbor and I would run outside to see what it was.  It was a bit scary those first few days. 

 

Otherwise, I've never been up close and personal with anything historical. 

[The Girls' Mom]

Watching the Challenger explode.  Even as a kid, I knew it was pretty significant.

 

My husband was packing his bags to get on an airplane for a business trip when the first plane hit the Towers.  

[happypamama]

I wasn't part of them happening, but I remember exactly where I was when:

-the Challenger blew up

-the Berlin Wall fell

-Greg Louganis got back to back double gold medals

-America returned to space as Discovery cleared the tower (I will never forget hearing the announcer's words, and to this day, it makes me all teary.)

-Y2K happened and the lights didn't all go out

-we waited to see who actually won the 2000 election

-I was sixteen weeks pregnant with my daughter when 9/11 happened, and I remember getting up that night for my usual bathroom trip and looking out the window at the calm, as if nothing had happened, and yet, the whole world had changed.

-we went into DC to watch President Reagan's funeral procession

 

But my husband has actually worked on preserving several of America's historic sites and buildings. It's cool to think that decades from now, people will be able to see churches, houses, etc. (including the Lincoln summer cottage in DC) because he had a hand in their restoration and preservation.

[Lady Florida.]

The peaceful revolution in East Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Powerful times.

 

I remember watching that on CNN, calling my mother and shouting into the phone, "The Wall is coming down! People are just taking it down and no one is stopping them!" It must have been quite a thing to actually be there.

[EmseB]

I talked about this in another thread, but dh was there when that statue of Saddam was pulled down. He recorded it on his vhs camcorder (the whole thing took a long time and was mostly very boring), and in some of the media photos you can see him with his team. Which is why I always chuckle a bit when I used to come across conspiracy theory stuff about how it was staged and planned for the media. They may have only shown the exciting bits on TV, but I'm pretty sure that's the case with most news events.

[Chris in VA]

I went thru Hurricane Andrew. Dh helped start one of the relief places.

 

Of course, 9-11 was pretty big here; we are less than 20 miles from DC, and had parishoners in the Pentagon. We had only lived here 3 weeks.

 

The DC Sniper was also in our area. Scared the crap out of my kids--for weeks, their school parked the buses at a slant in a row so to shield the kids as they got on and off. The shades were pulled down all day in their classrooms. A trucker intentionally waited for me to pump gas one night--he shielded me with his rig. I was really grateful when I realized what he was doing.

 

I've been alive during a very historical period, as have many of us! But that's what I directly interacted with.

[Lady Florida.]

-America returned to space as Discovery cleared the tower (I will never forget hearing the announcer's words, and to this day, it makes me all teary.)

 

 

That time I had planning period during launch so I didn't have students. I was with several other teachers who were also on planning. We left campus and went across the street where all the tourists/launch watchers were. Someone had a radio playing. We all held hands and held our breath until we heard "Go at throttle up."

[sassenach]

 

 

I watched the final launch of Columbia not actually knowing it would be it's final flight. So in that instance I didn't yet know it would be historically significant. 

 

 

Me, too. I think that was the only launch that I caught on video from our front yard. We also attended the last night launch, before we knew it was going to be the last night launch (until they changed their minds a few years later). Our last space coast experience actually happened here on the west coast, at the Golden Gate Bridge as Endeavor was ferried to Los Angeles. That was sort of surreal.

 

I have a pretty similar list of significant moments as others here. There's been earthquakes- Northridge (felt that one), Loma Prietta (watched on tv), Whittier (which few people will remember, but was my first significant earthquake experience).

 

Probably something that only SoCal people would remember, but the Girl Scout bus crash in Palm Springs- we  hosted 2 of the leaders, including one that died.

 

I remember the Berlin wall and Tiananmen Square on TV, but I only sort of understood the moment. The Oklahoma and Olympics bombings were at a more significant age. 

 

The LA riots were a big deal for my family. My dad's business was destroyed, and we watched the coverage for days. The build up, from the beginning with the Rodney King video, to the trial, to the riots was a big deal in LA. We watched it all.

 

OJ. So much OJ.

 

Columbine was maybe the first time I felt a big heart connection to seeing something unfold on TV.

 

There's a weird collection of disturbing moments floating in my mind- Waco, Heaven's Gate, Princess Di's death, baby Jessica.... all on tv, so maybe that's not what you're asking.

 

And 9/11. Of course. 

 

Katrina- we lived in NO for a time, but not then. Right after the storm, when we could see on the news that help was not moving in fast enough, our church mobilized 3 truckloads of food and about a dozen people, who spent 2 weeks in MS. They never made it as far as NO. My hubby led it out.

[FloridaLisa]

2 things:

 

1st: walking across campus at the University of Florida on a gorgeous clear morning and seeing a white trail.  I had no idea until I got to my class at the journalism school that it had been the Challenger explosion. 

 

2nd: living in Tallahassee (Florida's capitol) during the 2000 Bush/Gore hanging chad days. I had just stopped practicing law, but every attorney and court reporter I knew was up to his/her eyeballs in work. National news was camped downtown and our homeschool group brought them hot cocoa and homemade cookies one night, well into daily December debacle. I would drive past and try to impress the importance of the event to my kids, but they were pretty little. 

 

Those are 2 in which I was somewhat present. 

[Lady Florida.]

 

 

I have a pretty similar list of significant moments as others here. There's been earthquakes- Northridge (felt that one), Loma Prietta (watched on tv), Whittier (which few people will remember, but was my first significant earthquake experience).

 

age. 

 

 

 

Which one is the one that happened during the World Series? (Yes, I know I can look it up). I was only half watching the game while i graded papers, and can still hear Al Michaels' saying "We're having an earth_" then the tv screen went blank.

[MEmama]

I remember ash falling from the sky after Mt. St. Helen's erupted. It was hard to wrap my head around how far away Washington State really was.

 

I was supposed to be driving into San Francisco at the time of the big 1989 earthquake. A friend and I had planned to go to a show (to see Primus, I think) but her mom made her bail at the last minute. Instead I felt it in my hometown, but had no idea it was as destructive as it was until I saw it on another friend's TV.

 

DH was driving to the airport when the planes flew into the twin towers. For the longest time they kept telling him his meeting was still on and he'd have to fly anyway. It wasn't until they shut all the airports that we could breathe easy. I was giving interviews at the time, totally surreal to be getting the updates from our receptionist and then conducting interviews like nothing was going on. An uncle would have been in a meeting in one of the towers except he accidentally missed his usual train.

 

My (German) mother wouldn't talk about the Berlin Wall coming down. I have always wondered why.

[MooCow]

Oakland, the earthquake during the world series.

 

 

The very first video on mtv. (Trying to keep it lighthearted for myself)

[Amira]

The only think I can think of where I was there in person was Rabin's assassination.  We went to the viewing along with many, many other people in Jerusalem.  It was very interesting to be in Jerusalem in 1995 and 1997.

 

I've cared about current events from the late 80s ons so events like the Berlin Wall, Tiananmen Square, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the genocide in Rwanda all had an impact on me.  So did the Challenger, but that was a little earlier.

 

 

[fraidycat]

I'll lighten things up a bit.

 

I was there when...

 

Harry Styles fell on stage in San Diego.   :tongue_smilie:

[livetoread]

I was in the Tokyo airport with my parents during the 1985 bomb explosion. We heard a noise and felt a whoosh of air pressure. I told my father it sounded like a bomb. He shrugged. Our flight was delayed an hour, but it wasn't until we landed in the U.S. that we discovered what had happened and that people had died.

[Guest]

I have seen plenty, but I haven't been present at anything worth noting. Being nearby hardly counts :lol:

[livetoread]

My housemate while I was living in DC was in a hotel right off Tiananmen Square when the massacre started. He told us the story of leaving the hotel with his mother and trying to get a taxi to the airport to get out of China. Students were running and screaming. Some managed to grab a taxi for them though and shoved them in. One girl handed him a shell casing and told him to tell everyone in the US what was happening.

 

Then a few months later he goes home to Oakland to visit and the earthquake hit. We told him to stop traveling.

[flyingaway]

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[PeachyDoodle]

I was in Hong Kong in the summer of 1997 when control was passed from Britain back to China. The Chinese army marched through downtown and we went to watch the celebration. Dozens and dozens of lit-up floats on the harbor and fireworks. It was pretty cool.

 

I remember seeing the Challenger blow up. We were watching it live on TV in our first-grade classroom. I remember sitting on the tile floor and that it was warm because our room was over the boiler (weird, how things like that stick out). When it happened, our teacher jumped up and ran to turn the TV off, but I was confused because I didn't understand what had happened. I remember my mom crying that night and thinking it was weird because she didn't even know those people.

 

Of course, 9/11 was a biggie, but I wasn't doing anything special. I was at work several states away. It was still awful.

[happypamama]

Oh, yeah, and I heard the shots from my dorm room when Melanie Spalla (because her name deserves to be remembered) was shot and killed on my college campus in 1996. My room faced the lawn where she was killed, and several of the bullets went beyond my dorm. In the era before widespread cell phones, texting, and Facebook, many parents were understandably very worried for quite a while because all phone circuits were jammed. I remember sitting through my afternoon classes in a daze, along with everyone else wondering what had happened, as information took a while to spread throughout the large campus. I think my reactions to that were probably pretty similar to how I felt after 9/11: HERE, REALLY??? On our territory? Unfathomable.

[momacacia]

I was living/working in DC on 9/11. We could see the Pentagon smoking from the meeting room we were in and initially thought it was coming from the White House. It was difficult to get back gone to N Va that day, but more significantly changed the way I saw the city, the metro and living there for the next 2 years. It still impacts how I think about air travel for myself and DH.

[Um_2_4]

I saw Haley's Comet when I was little (10 I think) with my dad.

Of course I saw other things on TV/from a distance, but that was the one I can think of that was a personal experience.

[3 ladybugs]

I was in Goose Lake (Gifford Pinchot National Forest) when Mt. St. Helens erupted. I have no memories of the day and it took me 20 years to find out what happened other then just that. I am told pumice fell from the sky into the lake (we were in a canoe) and we rowed to shore quickly once they pieced together what was happening. We were with my aunt, uncle and cousins, and my parents loaded the car and LEFT ME there! My aunt and uncle got me in their car. We had to go closer to the mountain on the way out and at a cross roads (near the mountain) my aunt and uncle had us get out of the car and there is a photo of me and my cousins with Mt. Adams in the background. You would never know it was that day. LOL My aunt and uncle were in the process of purchasing a house in Yacolt, WA and it had a perfect view of Mt. St. Helens. Sadly their view was cut short that day. But they do have great photos of subsequent eruptions. 

 

When challenger exploded I was home alone due to being ill (I was 9). I had no clue what had happened till my parents got home and explained it to me.

 

I fell down the steps to our house in SW Washington about 30 minutes before it was announced that there was a major earthquake in San Francisco in October 1989. I say I felt it, but I am sure I didn't. I had a friend who was living in SF at the time who's hubby had JUST cleared that highway that collapsed when the earthquake struck. He thought he had a flat tire and stopped. Turns out it was the earth quake. 

 

I voted in the 2000 Florida election with a ballot with chads. My ballot was sequestered but wasn't a part of the official recount. I was in Pinellas County. 

 

I was a nanny not far from where I live now in New Jersey on 9/11. The parents both worked for financial companies in NYC. That day I had got their child ready and just fed him when I got a call from the father calmly asking me if his wife (who worked from home often) had went to the City that day. I said yes, and told him about when she left (about 6:30 that morning... I was a live in by the way). He then said that a plane had just crashed into the WTC. That was about the end of the conversation. At the time I thought that it was like the plane that crashed into the Empire State Building in the 40's that was lost in fog. Then I looked outside and realized there was no way that there was fog in NYC. So I turned on the TV just in time to see the second plane hit the WTC. I quickly turned off the TV and tried my best to have a normal day with the child (yeah right). I had no idea where my employers worked in the financial area down there. I went to the park and my mom was able to call me from Florida with updates as to what was happening (I had a PA cell phone number and I think that is the only reason she got through). When the first building fell, I decided that it would be best for me to go back to the house and try not to think about what was happening. I got there, and the grandmother (maternal) was either waiting for me, or came shortly thereafter. She was MAD that I left the house. She had no idea where her daughter or son-in-law worked but I had heard from the dad since the second plane hit, and I think I had heard from the mom too. Turns out out the father got a boat to Hoboken and was able to take a train home from there. He was home around 2 even though he didn't get on a boat till the buildings started falling. The mother, about 3 months pregnant, was able to get past a doorman where her brother lived and get into his apartment and spent a night in Manhattan. They both worked across the street from the WTC in separate buildings. I overheard her talking in her office (open to the living areas of the house) about what she saw. It was awful! Oh and I think my employers were grateful that I was trying to keep their son away from the events of that day, even though his parents were in the middle of it. The grandmother was the only one that got upset at me. :)

 

I moved to Cambridge, MA 1 week prior to the 2003 blackout in the north east. I was suppose to go on vacation that day but due to the baby (still working for same employers) not wanting to go to her mom about 2 weeks prior, and me being engaged to be married that December (move to Cambridge in October), they let me go early, which I was fine with. They were going to fly somewhere that day and couldn't. I enjoyed my AC (as it was August) in Boston and thought of them. :)

 

I survived Sandy (though my dog still has issues) and the gas shortages from that. I was in the middle of cycling to get my baby (meaning I was about to have a frozen embryo transfer) so I had to go to South Jersey the day prior to it hitting. It wasn't fun driving back! We spent most of our time in the basement when it was passing. Winds were awful! After words we still had power till they had to cut our power to restore it to others. We were in an area that didn't have to have gas rationing, and we had power back within 12 hours of it going out. So it wasn't bad for us. However my son was part of a mini baby boom as he was transferred 2 weeks later and was delivered at 38 weeks. However he was more planned then the rest of those babies!!!

 

ETA one more - My mail survived the anthrax attack of 2001. I still have a letter that was sent to me that the post office put in plastic due to the anthrax attack. 

 

[Slache]

I helped to tear down and rebuild homes in the New Orleans are after Katrina. I learned so much.

 

Trigger alert: I also found two children hidden in a closet that died in the flood and got to tell their parents.

[raptor_dad]

I was a groomsman in a friends wedding in Chicago the Saturday after 9/11(Tuesday). The bride worked 2 blocks from the White House. She walked out of DC along with thousands of others and then got shuttled hand to hand to Chicago. We made it from NC... which was much less impressive than the relatives who made the very long drive from Portland, days after returning from an international adoption for twin infants. The whole thing was surreal, the reception was in a bar on the ground floor of the Mercantile Exchange, the building folks had M16s and many of the guests were law enforcement and were also packing...

 

A few weeks later during our wedding reception, the bombing of Afghanistan started.

 

DW and I were in the antiwar march in January 2003 with 250,000+ others... and in March with a disappointed, dispirited 30-50k.

 

We knew we were on the losing side at the time.

 

Currently we are beginning to get involved with Bernie Sanders campaign... maybe that will be a flash in the pan or maybe that will be a watershed... too early to say.

 

 

[rdj2027]

The fall of the Berlin Wall.  I lived in Berlin at the time and worked for a bank.  

[Kareni]

Dating myself here ...

 

I remember being at school and watching man walk on the moon.

 

Yes, it was July, but this was in Australia where school was in session.  I remember televisions being wheeled in.  This was novel in a time when there were only three channels, and I rarely watched television. 

 

Regards,

Kareni

[HRAAB]

I feel I've lived through a lot of history but haven't personally witnessed it, other than on television.  Including the moon landing.  :001_smile: I clearly remember sitting with my family watching it on our black and white TV.

[raptor_dad]

dp

[Junie]

It's been so interesting to read all of your stories.  Thank you for sharing.

 

I remember when I was about 4 we packed up the car and went to visit my uncle out-of-state.  I asked my dad if I would be able to play at the neighbor's house when we got back.  He said, "If we come back..."  I didn't yet know that we were evacuating because of the accident at Three Mile Island.

[Guest]

I feel I've lived through a lot of history but haven't personally witnessed it, other than on television. Including the moon landing. :001_smile: I clearly remember sitting with my family watching it on our black and white TV.

 

Ohhh, you know that was fake, right?

 

 

 

 

 

Jk ;)