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Beyond 9/11, what other events of your life do you remember exactly where you were and....
...what you were doing when you heard the news?
For me...
Howard Cosell announcing on MNF that John Lennon had been shot and killed.
Terrorists storming the '72 Olympics and taking Israeli athletes hostage. They kept referring to the terrorists as 'guerrillas' and I thought they were actual gorillas.
Space shuttle Challenger explosion.
While stationed overseas, my father calling to tell me he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Learning that Reagan was shot
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4/22-6/4,1989. Remember almost everyday where I were/did in this period.
Not proud of it, not ashamed of it. Just hope this kind of tragedy won't happen again.
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You squashed those Maoists good, baby!
“Democracy advocates” my ass! Amirite?!
High five!
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No, they squashed you. No kidding, I meant your embassy 10 years later.
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My embassy? Am I Chinese now?
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You went to China before. You couldn't recoginze what the building being under attack is?
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You speak - and think - gibberish.
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You're ignorant to talk to, complete tone deaf on those Mao style slogans of anti u.s.imperialism.
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Tiananmen?...Panama?...Your stay at Neverland Ranch?...Notre Dame Final Exams?
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What were you doing that you claim not be ashamed of that was part of a tragedy?
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I tried my best in an losing effort to stop the movment from becoming another Red Guard movement
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Good job comrade.
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That picture is from what, 1966? Are you saying the 1989 movement became a pro-communist movement?
Honest question. I don't understand.
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Seems there's hidden presumption in your question. But the bottom line is there is no clear ism in
this movement. If judging by its slogans appeared in the movement, you can say it has every ism. Of course the western media paid more attention to those pro-democracy slogans as they always did (such as they did on those Arab spring protests).
When I said Red Guard, I was referring to their behaviors/actions, such as occupying the public place, occupying the state/city/county official offices, intruding official meetings. creating their own pickets... Red guards of 1966-1968 and protesters of 1989 share many similarities. Even their fates are similar: both were suppressed by the PLA. Nobody else can handle them. The difference is PLA killed more and arrested more red guards in 1968 than they did on protesters of 1989. I don't think anyone here can understand the Red guards influence on the generations of 1970s and 1980s in China.
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Understood. Thanks.
I thought your photo was of 1989 initially. Then I started googling that group, and saw a picture from the 60's. No presumption...or if there was an unconscious presumption, I was willing for you to dispossess me of it.
So, you were in China in 1989? Are you from China?
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Yes to both questions
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I suspect many here remember where they were on the evening of November 8, 2016.
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Just the Challenger explosion.
I was in a planetarium in Binghamton of all places, on a school field trip.
I was in elementary school, so I only remember being there and seeing an adult crying, which tipped us all off something was wrong.
9/11, I remember every second of that morning, from the moment I woke up.
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Columbia, too. Ugh.
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June 11, 1979; October 23, 1983
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.
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Hanging out with off duty soldiers, drinking beer...everyone's pager goes off at once. Never good.
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Family births and deaths aside-then Moon Landing, 9/11, Challenger, Pope JPII shot,Reagan shot,
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Remember moon landing. Lennon being shot and others. None like 9/11...since I was few blocks away.
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I was in Gallen's Vivo in Rathmullen when the King of Pop died.
Little Irish kids in the store were freaking out. Farrah Fawcett died the same day.
I was in a BnB in Dublin when OJ's Bronco chase occurred.
I was in my office at Ice Miller when my FIL called to tell me that Jerry had passed away.
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OJ verdict. Every attorney left the office to go to a bar across the street to watch the verdict.
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I remember that. Was surprised how many young IND attorneys cheered it.
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Cancel your junkets to Ireland. They're clearly creating drama and costing lives...
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Happy Wanderer Lehigh.
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Trippy lehigh.
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Pinched off that final loaf.
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JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations. Little else compares. 9/11 the worst though.
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Other than the obvious, wedding, kids’ birth, death of parents....nothing close to 9/11.
It is our generation’s Pearl Harbor Day.
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9/11...never expected anything to beat the OKC bombing, but I'm sure there will be something worse.
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Good point on the OKC bombing. Do remember that well. Was taking a deposition at the home of the LL
World Series. My wife though was looking at daycares for our first born that day. Not a good scene when I got home.
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The day of OKC, I came out of a job interview, and then watched TV all afternoon.
When 9/11 happened, I knew the entire day was a loss for me as far as work was concerned, so I just got in my car and drove home. I made the kids watch a lot of the coverage. They have to know that evil people exist who want to kill them (and it wasn't just airplanes, like the NYTimes wants people to believe).
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Just some people doing some things......disgraceful.
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JFK assassination tops my list... of course I was a Catholic teenager then and idolized him.
Funny thing is... I went to a Catholic school in Utah and had to play in the State Football championship the next day because the Mormons refused to delay the game... as did the NFL that Sunday.
Link: https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/days-jfk-assassination-nfl-played-article-1.1526740