6/11/1979:
Shooting pool, drinking beer, as 18 year old midshipman on a 4 week summer assignment to USS Tripoli, moored at the 32nd Street Pier, Naval Base (San Diego). Willie Nelson's "Georgia on my Mind" was playing on jukebox, when we learned that John Wayne had died.
10/23/1979:
Aboard the USS Tarawa in the Red Sea, playing backgammon on a Sunday morning with fellow lieutenants, when reports came re the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut. I had been inside that building just days earlier. We immediately knew the # of casualties would be huge. Incredibly tragic day. Life got real ... in a hurry that day.
June 11, 1979; October 23, 1983
Replies to: "June 11, 1979; October 23, 1983"
- Beyond 9/11, what other events of your life do you remember exactly where you were and.... - Nigel Tufnel - 9:21am 9/11/19
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- 4/22-6/4,1989. Remember almost everyday where I were/did in this period. - Eli - 5:36pm 9/11/19
- You squashed those Maoists good, baby! - Chris94 - 6:35pm 9/11/19
- No, they squashed you. No kidding, I meant your embassy 10 years later. - Eli - 7:35pm 9/11/19
- My embassy? Am I Chinese now? [NT]
- Chris94 - 8:15pm 9/11/19
- You went to China before. You couldn't recoginze what the building being under attack is? [NT]
- Eli - 8:36pm 9/11/19
- You speak - and think - gibberish. [NT]
- Chris94 - 10:57pm 9/11/19
- You're ignorant to talk to, complete tone deaf on those Mao style slogans of anti u.s.imperialism. [NT] - Eli - 1:39pm 9/12/19
- You speak - and think - gibberish. [NT]
- Chris94 - 10:57pm 9/11/19
- You went to China before. You couldn't recoginze what the building being under attack is? [NT]
- Eli - 8:36pm 9/11/19
- My embassy? Am I Chinese now? [NT]
- Chris94 - 8:15pm 9/11/19
- No, they squashed you. No kidding, I meant your embassy 10 years later. - Eli - 7:35pm 9/11/19
- Tiananmen?...Panama?...Your stay at Neverland Ranch?...Notre Dame Final Exams? [NT] - NedoftheHill - 6:21pm 9/11/19
- What were you doing that you claim not be ashamed of that was part of a tragedy? [NT]
- Frank L - 6:08pm 9/11/19
- I tried my best in an losing effort to stop the movment from becoming another Red Guard movement [NT]
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- Eli - 7:49pm 9/11/19
- Good job comrade. [NT] - Frank L - 11:20pm 9/11/19
- That picture is from what, 1966? Are you saying the 1989 movement became a pro-communist movement? - NedoftheHill - 9:01pm 9/11/19
- Seems there's hidden presumption in your question. But the bottom line is there is no clear ism in - Eli - 1:32pm 9/12/19
- Understood. Thanks. - NedoftheHill - 6:02pm 9/12/19
- Yes to both questions [NT] - Eli - 7:26pm 9/12/19
- Understood. Thanks. - NedoftheHill - 6:02pm 9/12/19
- Seems there's hidden presumption in your question. But the bottom line is there is no clear ism in - Eli - 1:32pm 9/12/19
- I tried my best in an losing effort to stop the movment from becoming another Red Guard movement [NT]
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- Eli - 7:49pm 9/11/19
- You squashed those Maoists good, baby! - Chris94 - 6:35pm 9/11/19
- I suspect many here remember where they were on the evening of November 8, 2016. [NT] [IMAGE] - NedoftheHill - 2:38pm 9/11/19
- Just the Challenger explosion. - AlbanyIRISH - 11:06am 9/11/19
- Columbia, too. Ugh. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 2:32pm 9/11/19
- June 11, 1979; October 23, 1983 - conorlarkin - 11:05am 9/11/19
- Hanging out with off duty soldiers, drinking beer...everyone's pager goes off at once. Never good. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 2:34pm 9/11/19
- Family births and deaths aside-then Moon Landing, 9/11, Challenger, Pope JPII shot,Reagan shot, [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 10:44am 9/11/19
- Remember moon landing. Lennon being shot and others. None like 9/11...since I was few blocks away. [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 10:10am 9/11/19
- I was in Gallen's Vivo in Rathmullen when the King of Pop died. - LehighND - 10:05am 9/11/19
- OJ verdict. Every attorney left the office to go to a bar across the street to watch the verdict. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 2:36pm 9/11/19
- I remember that. Was surprised how many young IND attorneys cheered it. [NT] - LehighND - 9:59pm 9/11/19
- Cancel your junkets to Ireland. They're clearly creating drama and costing lives... [NT]
- TakethetrainKnute - 10:27am 9/11/19
- Happy Wanderer Lehigh. [NT]
- Frank L - 10:28am 9/11/19
- Trippy lehigh. [NT] - TakethetrainKnute - 11:12am 9/11/19
- Happy Wanderer Lehigh. [NT]
- Frank L - 10:28am 9/11/19
- Pinched off that final loaf. [NT] - Frank L - 10:07am 9/11/19
- OJ verdict. Every attorney left the office to go to a bar across the street to watch the verdict. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 2:36pm 9/11/19
- JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations. Little else compares. 9/11 the worst though. [NT] - THEISMANCARR - 9:54am 9/11/19
- Other than the obvious, wedding, kids’ birth, death of parents....nothing close to 9/11. - Frank L - 9:32am 9/11/19
- 9/11...never expected anything to beat the OKC bombing, but I'm sure there will be something worse. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 2:30pm 9/11/19
- Good point on the OKC bombing. Do remember that well. Was taking a deposition at the home of the LL - Frank L - 3:48pm 9/11/19
- The day of OKC, I came out of a job interview, and then watched TV all afternoon. - NedoftheHill - 5:42pm 9/11/19
- Just some people doing some things......disgraceful. [NT] - Frank L - 6:03pm 9/11/19
- The day of OKC, I came out of a job interview, and then watched TV all afternoon. - NedoftheHill - 5:42pm 9/11/19
- Good point on the OKC bombing. Do remember that well. Was taking a deposition at the home of the LL - Frank L - 3:48pm 9/11/19
- 9/11...never expected anything to beat the OKC bombing, but I'm sure there will be something worse. [NT]
- NedoftheHill - 2:30pm 9/11/19
- JFK assassination tops my list... of course I was a Catholic teenager then and idolized him. [LINK] - Curly1918 - 9:27am 9/11/19
- 4/22-6/4,1989. Remember almost everyday where I were/did in this period. - Eli - 5:36pm 9/11/19