pondering

all this thinking that I’ve been doing
about 9-11
has made me think
of other monumental occurrences
that have taken place during my lifespan
things that have shaped our worlds and lives……

where were you when the first man walked on the moon?

I was in Merritt BC at my aunt and uncle’s place….the fadder was trying to watch the news clips as it happened and the aunt and the uncle and the cousin’s were all gun ho to go to the demolition derby…the fadder says “this is history in the making…a man is walking on the moon” and the uncle says “yes…but the smash up derby only comes to Merritt once a year!”

where were you when JFK got shot?

“NOV. 22, 1963 (FRIDAY): John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. He is pronounced dead at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Eighty minutes after the assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Later Oswald is charged with murder”
I was 8….and my mother wouldn’t let me watch the footage on TV as she didn’t want me “scared for life”

where were you when John Lennon got shot?

I was working in a bar in Thunder Bay ON…Matt Minglewood band had just finished playing an amazing set of rockin blues and walked off the stage for the night…3 minutes later, with the house lights on Matt came back on stage and announced that he and the band had just seen the news footage and that John Lennon was dead..his voice was laden with emotion….there was likely close to 300 people in that room and you could have heard a pin drop…and then the tears began

what sticks out in your mind?
what world changing event do you remember with absolute clarity?