January 28, 2011
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Space Shuttle Challenger
I remember when the space shuttle blew up. It was sort of the “I remember where I was when” moment.
I was in Jr. High. They carted TVs into the classes so we could watch the news coverage. It blew up 25 years ago. I remember when President Reagan got shot.
There is 9/11 which is probably this generations moment. I know my dad said that his moment was when JFK was shot.
What was your generational moment to remember?
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I was in kindergarden, watching it in the school library. I was too young to understand what had happened. I didn’t figure out that I had seen this until sometime recently. Kind of glad I didn’t understand back then.
The OJ chase. lol But seriously 9/11 was a moment for me too.
We were watching the takeoff at work. Then… boom, a lot of the women cried.
9/11 for sure. There’s no way I could ever forget something like that.
Yep amazingly even though i’m in the UK and don’t really follow world events or even watch news that often, I still remember 9/11.
I was down south helping my Uncle do IT work, and we’d just arrived at a lawyers office to do some computery stuff and the van radio was going on about somekind of big event in America, and then as the day progressed pretty much everything was either showing or talking about it…..I certianly remember that more than the one in London, a few busses really dosen’t compair with the towers.
I also was interested to see the slow removal of the classic NY skyline from various TV shows, it always suprisese me now when i see an oldish 90′s film that still has the towers there.
I remember JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King Jr., the moon landing, Apollo 13, the release of POWs, Jonestown, Watergate, the Iranian hostages, the Reagan shooting, both space shuttle disasters the Boxing Day tsunami, the assassinations of Indira Ghandi, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin and Benazir Bhutto, countless deaths and natural disasters. I’m older than most of your readers by about a generation-and-a-half. 9/11 is my generation’s moment.
I still remember where I was when I heard the Archduke was shot. People were pretty choked up about that, I tell ya.
I would say 9/11. I was fourteen. We were getting ready to move to North Carolina from Florida. Some people were supposed to come view out house that morning. The realtor never showed up. When my parents called to find out what the problem was, he told them what had happened in New York. They thought he was joking. Then we turned on the news.
But it’s weird you should mention this because I was just randomly thinking about the space shuttle Columbia crash today–right out of nowhere…
I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it crashed right around this time of year. No idea why I was thinking about it. Freaky 
I was a baby when Challenger blew up, so I don’t remember it at all. I remember Columbia exploding because I was in high school at the time. I was also in high school when 9/11 happened. In conclusion, I should have skipped high school.
I think my generation’s moment is a positive one. It would either be the fall of the Berlin Wall or the election of Nelson Mandela after decades of South African apartheid. I want to remember such things. Not the moments of destruction. My generation has witnessed so much.
I remember Challenger, and Reagan getting shot.
I have a few. I was only 6 when Challenger blew up, but since i’m in Texas, i think the big event before 9/11 was Waco.
@RoverMoon - The Columbia anniversary is sometime next week. And yesterday was the 44th anniversary of the Apollo fire that killed Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. And I vaguely remember when that happened, too.
idunno about generational — but THIS moment will live in infamy– the day i was older than rope on xanga – I remember JFK shooting… i mean, i was only a kid but still…
The day DearRicky left Xanga.
9/11 was my ninth birthday. I remember waking up and seeing it on the news — it had happened at about five our time — and then going to school and wondering what the big deal was. When you’re nine very little seems quite as important as your birthday. My mom was also having a major surgery that day so I was a bit preoccupied.
I remember when the space shuttle blew up. It was about midnight here in Hong Kong. I was listening to BBC World Service. I used to do that in the dead of the night when everybody was fast asleep. The news anouncer said, “BBC World Service. The news read by XXX. The space shuttle Challenger exploded soon after lift-off….”
It was so shocking that it left an unforgettable memory.
I was in health class my freshman year of high school when the announcement about JFK was made. I more remember watching Jack Ruby shoot Oswald LIVE on t.v. I could not believe my eyes.
9/11.
When Buffallo lost four superbowls in a row.
9/11 for sure but I remember vividly when princess Diana died. I was in 6th grade. I remember praying for her.
9/11 for sure…
I’m only fifteen so it’d be 9/11. But if you count good moments in history, I’ll never forget watching the television screen the night Obama was elected president. It was remarkable.
9/11… the Challenger was before my time (I’m 24). I remember the day the towers fell… I was a teenager, and Good Morning America was on… I remember Mom saying in a strangled voice, “Someone must be bombing New York!” Later, a friend of mine from TX messaged me to ask if I was ok – but I’m in Upstate NY, not NYC. I think 9/11 is my generation’s “moment”… unfortunately.
My personal generational moments were seeing my kids born,being able to be in the room seeing it instead of waiting in a waiting room like my dad and other used to have to do.There is no greater miracle to witness than that of seeing your own child born into this world.
I remember the space shuttle and 9/11. But 9/11 is more recent and more shocking.
Definitely 9/11….
@Andres897 - LMAO! Nice.
Hmmm… Too many to name just one. Reagan getting shot, Berlin Wall coming down, Challenger Jessica McClure’s rescue. Big or small those are the earliest gripping national moments for me. They don’t compare with September 11 or the 2004 tsunami though.
The complete Democrat take over of the government in 2008 was my generational moment. It’s going to take at least 100 years to dig out of the mess those criminals caused. The Middle East melt down is only the beginning of the world descent into chaos because Obama has relinquished American greatness and set us on a path of ruin.
1) OJ simpson from elementary years.
2) Columbine from sixth grade.
3 )Y2K in seventh grade.
4) 9/11 in ninth grade.
The Challenger explosion happened 1.5 years before I was even born, but I vividly remember watching a video of the explosion in 4th grade.
Yup, 9/11.
Even though I was only 9 years-old at the time, I still remember it quite
vividly. The Challenger tragedy shouldn’t have happened if the NASA
chiefs would have listened to their engineers, who said that it was too
dangerous with the ice crystals forming on the shuttle >:(
You’d think that they’d have learned their lesson . . . but NO! Tragedy
struck again with the Space Shuttle Columbia because NASA chiefs would
not do anything to correct the insulation foam that had previously
fallen off on a prior launch!! >:(
Now, NASA has been instructed by Pres. Obama to make nice with Muslims (seriously), to make
them feel good about themselves for having contributed to the world’s
space knowledge many moons ago. I don’t know why that is a more
important mission right now than to make sure that the space vehicles
are safe, but hey, it’s only our tax dollars . . . it’s not like we have
a say in how our tax dollars are put to use or anything . . .
Challenger happened 5 years before I was born apparently…I’m not even sure my parents had met yet. No one every told me the date though and I guess because of the way people talked about it, I always assumed it happened when I was a baby or little kid. *shrugs* Learn something new everyday…even when you went to the Challenger Center all the time (how they didn’t tell us the date, I don’t know).
9/11 is currently my huge generational moment. I was only 10 at the time and I think going to school when it actually happened; I didn’t find out about it until after lunch when they had to explain why we couldn’t go to recess (base security measures) that day and for a while after that. I guess the Virginia Tech shooting is a smaller one. Oh and don’t forget about Hurricane Katrina and all that destruction.
I was too young to remember Reagan. I can vaguely remember some of the hostages in Iran coming home. Baby Jessica? I was in kindergarten when the space shuttle blew up and I remember how the kids at school had a special viewing party because a teacher was on-board. I got home to see it. Gulf War 1 and Gulf War 2. Red Sox winning the World Series
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9/11. I was nine and my dad was admitted to the hospital the night before.
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definitely 9/11
Definitely 9/11
I wouls say John Lennon’s murder…I was watching football…Monday Night Fall…I believeit was Miami vs New England (I’m sure about that) but a friend called to tell me and I was in shock and them a few minutes later Howard Cosell made the announcement> I can also remember when The Great Reggie White died….I am a Green Bay Packers fan! Go Pack! LOL..
I remember the Challenger accident like it was yesterday.
For the Challenger, I was in school watching it live. The moment we all realized that something was just not right…the whole place fell silent. I can’t believe it has been 25 years. Incidentally, I have this freakish memory that has stored things like being in front of the tv in our living room as a very young girl when the news broke into the program to announce that Elvis Presley was dead. *shrug*
I remember something which I will never forget, but I can’t recall it for the moment.
Rodney King,OJ, Columbine,BS with one of our battleships in Yemen, 9/11, SS Columbia,Katrina,The crash of 08′.
Obviously 9/11 was my generational moment. I was in the 6th grade then. I can’t believe its already going on 10 years since.
There were others too, the in betweens. Like the whole Clinton intern scandal. I sort of remember that one. Then anything political that has happened since 2000. Crazy times we live in.
The challenger was about 4 years out of my range. My brother was born just about 10 days after the challenger disaster though.
9/11 of course, but when i was much younger, the Berlin Wall.
Though I was no longer a child and just out of my teens, I would say definitely 9/11. Also Obama’s election, on a much happier note.
September 11, 2001. It was a tragic Tuesday.
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I was fourteen at the time, on a airbase and I could remember the crisp sound of air sirens and F-14′s taking off.
Sometime after during service(I can’t remember if it was a week later or something), there were couple flyby’s across Vancouver city.
(Vancouver, BC that is, in Canada )
The moon landing
I guess the moonlanding was my moment. I remember being annoyed because I got sent home early from school. Then there was nothing on Television but some boring stuff about a rocket. I guess I was just too young to appreciate the historic significance.
9/11. I was in 6th grade and got told about it by my best friend. My mom’s generational moment was when the dinosaurs died out…
I wasn’t even born when the Challenger blew up.
My generation moments would have to be 9/11 and maybe Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, I was 19 at the time.
I was in fourth grade when 9/11 happened. My elementary school refused to tell us about it when it happened and refused to show us any footage/news coverage. At the time the towers started to fall, I was in music class singing “50 Nifty United States.’ The day went as it usually did until I got home. When I got off the bus, my mom was home (which was odd, since she worked until 3 and wouldn’t get home until around 4 usually). I walked into my house to see her watching the news, watching the towers collapse. I didn’t understand it but I remember crying, and I was scared. A few days later, our local mall sponsored a patriotic, memorial concert that my family attended. We went to Washington D.C. a month later and I saw all that damage that was done to the Pentagon. That was the biggest “I remember where I was when x happened…” moment in my life thus far.
I always thought I remembered the Challenger shuttle disaster (because we watched a movie in class about it), but alas I wasn’t born and it was actually the Columbia one I remember.
Columbine because I was in 4th grade and remember being scared to go to school.
9/11- My school district got in major trouble for airing the news when it happened. I was in 7th grade science when the first plane hit. My social studies teacher came rushing in saying turn on the tv. Then we had just switched to social studies when the second one hit. I remember my social studies teacher pointing it out before it hit and saying it wasn’t supposed to be there. Then after it hit he stated that this is a big event and we would all remember this moment for the rest of our lives. None of us prob gasped at the time it’s true impact. Our school was off base but in the same district as on base schools so we got out early that day and lots of parents signed out their kids before hand. I also remember my little brother who was only a toddler at the time saying he wish the planes didn’t do that because it made lots of people sad.
November 9th in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.
9/11 for me. What a day.
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9/11 for sure.
I was in the library with my class (grade 4 or 5) and we were watching something for social studies.the channel flipped over just as the first tower started to fall. One of my friends lost her father in that, and my other friend lost her aunt and uncle there. i remember it like it was yesterday, i remember being confused as to what was happening and then it all just kinda clicked and i was freaking out because my friend (the one who lost her dad) was in NYC when it happened and i was worried that she had died to, and i couldn’t call her because we didn’t have long-distance at the time, i remember being to relived but also devastated about her father when she called me, we spent a lot of time crying over that. It’s still hard thinking about it now.
9/11 for sure. also when obama was made president.
@saintvi - I’m with you…I remember all that, too. TV was a big part of having those images and moments burned into our brains. I remember being very young, watching TV and hearing of JFK’s assassination…my mother was walking through the house with a laundry basket and dropped the basket. We watched the funeral on TV together a few days later. I remember the white horses.
I wasn’t around for Challenger… but I remember Columbia blowing up… It happened on two of my aunt’s birthdays… and I also remember being in elementary school on 9/11…