Timbeck2
Final Approach
I was alive for the Kennedy assassination but my first real memory was the moon landing.
I was 1 year and a month old when Kennedy was assassinated but I remember the moon landing very clearly.
I was alive for the Kennedy assassination but my first real memory was the moon landing.
Baby Jessica
I was freaked out by the series "The day after" too. Even though I was 10 when it aired, I still vividly remember the scene of people getting vaporized by the blast. I always thought we'd be the last generation to be born in fear of nuclear war, but I guess not.
....The earliest big event I remember was the Lake Placid Olympics, followed by Mt St Helen's eruption.
I had the same feeling (although I didn't actually estimate the odds).Looking back we used to talk at school about what we reckoned our chances of making it to 50 were - would we make it, or get destroyed in a nuclear war? I remember thinking it was about 50/50.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “Nike” that both a missile and a show company were named after it?there was a Nike Missile site right down the road from us.
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “Nike” that both a missile and a show company were named after it?
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “Nike” that both a missile and a show company were named after it?
Greek goddess of child-labor sweatshops and obesiance to foreign dictators.Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “Nike” that both a missile and a show company were named after it?
Pardon my ignorance, but what is a “Nike” that both a missile and a show company were named after it?
My sister and I watched the JFK funeral on TV. We wanted to watch cartoons that normally were on. We only got 3 channels and it was on all three, so we watched it for a while. I was almost 5 and she was almost 3. We didn't know what it was all about, and had no idea we were watching a piece of history unfold.I was 4 when JFK was killed. Mom was upset, my sister came home from school early and my dad came home early, visibly upset.
I did not understand what was going on at the time, but I was crying because even though I did not know why everyone was upset, I was pretty sure it was going to lead to getting the seat of my pants warmed up.... (a paddling for those who are too young to understand that phrase...)
Plus Captain Kangaroo wasn't on. We only got 3 channels, and when mom's stories came on, I would be banished to the back yard...
My sister and I watched the JFK funeral on TV. We wanted to watch cartoons that normally were on. We only got 3 channels and it was on all three, so we watched it for a while. I was almost 5 and she was almost 3. We didn't know what it was all about, and had no idea we were watching a piece of history unfold.