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Beyond 9/11, what other events of your life do you remember exactly where you were and....

Author: Nigel Tufnel (8035 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:21 am on Sep 11, 2019
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...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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'I define fear as standing across from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.' - Max Baer

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4/22-6/4,1989. Remember almost everyday where I were/did in this period.

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 5:36 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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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!

Author: Chris94 (36750 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 6:35 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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“Democracy advocates” my ass! Amirite?!

High five!


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No, they squashed you. No kidding, I meant your embassy 10 years later.

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:35 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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My embassy? Am I Chinese now?

Author: Chris94 (36750 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:15 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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You went to China before. You couldn't recoginze what the building being under attack is?

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:36 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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You speak - and think - gibberish.

Author: Chris94 (36750 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 10:57 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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You're ignorant to talk to, complete tone deaf on those Mao style slogans of anti u.s.imperialism.

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 1:39 pm on Sep 12, 2019
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Tiananmen?...Panama?...Your stay at Neverland Ranch?...Notre Dame Final Exams?

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 6:21 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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What were you doing that you claim not be ashamed of that was part of a tragedy?

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 6:08 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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I tried my best in an losing effort to stop the movment from becoming another Red Guard movement

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:49 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Red_Guards_in_Tian%27anmen_Square.jpg

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Good job comrade.

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 11:20 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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That picture is from what, 1966? Are you saying the 1989 movement became a pro-communist movement?

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 9:01 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Honest question. I don't understand.

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Seems there's hidden presumption in your question. But the bottom line is there is no clear ism in

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 1:32 pm on Sep 12, 2019
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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.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 6:02 pm on Sep 12, 2019
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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?


Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Yes to both questions

Author: Eli (9555 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 7:26 pm on Sep 12, 2019
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I suspect many here remember where they were on the evening of November 8, 2016.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 2:38 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/161108225000-01-split-reactions-1108-super-tease.jpg

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Just the Challenger explosion.

Author: AlbanyIRISH (25810 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:06 am on Sep 11, 2019
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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.


Kind of reminds me of when Rocket Ismail played for Notre Dame
Invincibility with no vulnerability
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Columbia, too. Ugh.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 2:32 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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June 11, 1979; October 23, 1983

Author: conorlarkin (21004 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:05 am on Sep 11, 2019
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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.


The American Dream belongs to all of us. — Kamala Harris
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Hanging out with off duty soldiers, drinking beer...everyone's pager goes off at once. Never good.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 2:34 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Family births and deaths aside-then Moon Landing, 9/11, Challenger, Pope JPII shot,Reagan shot,

Author: BaronVonZemo (59849 Posts - Joined: Nov 19, 2010)

Posted at 10:44 am on Sep 11, 2019
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Remember moon landing. Lennon being shot and others. None like 9/11...since I was few blocks away.

Author: TakethetrainKnute (33491 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 10:10 am on Sep 11, 2019
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I was in Gallen's Vivo in Rathmullen when the King of Pop died.

Author: LehighND (7534 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 10:05 am on Sep 11, 2019
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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.


Are you kind?
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OJ verdict. Every attorney left the office to go to a bar across the street to watch the verdict.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 2:36 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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I remember that. Was surprised how many young IND attorneys cheered it.

Author: LehighND (7534 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 9:59 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Are you kind?
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Cancel your junkets to Ireland. They're clearly creating drama and costing lives...

Author: TakethetrainKnute (33491 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 10:27 am on Sep 11, 2019
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Happy Wanderer Lehigh.

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 10:28 am on Sep 11, 2019
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Trippy lehigh.

Author: TakethetrainKnute (33491 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:12 am on Sep 11, 2019
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Pinched off that final loaf.

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 10:07 am on Sep 11, 2019
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JFK, MLK and RFK assassinations. Little else compares. 9/11 the worst though.

Author: THEISMANCARR (17199 Posts - Joined: Aug 10, 2007)

Posted at 9:54 am on Sep 11, 2019
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Other than the obvious, wedding, kids’ birth, death of parents....nothing close to 9/11.

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 9:32 am on Sep 11, 2019
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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.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 2:30 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Good point on the OKC bombing. Do remember that well. Was taking a deposition at the home of the LL

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 3:48 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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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.

Author: NedoftheHill (44640 Posts - Joined: Jun 29, 2011)

Posted at 5:42 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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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).

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.
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Just some people doing some things......disgraceful.

Author: Frank L (64662 Posts - Joined: Sep 20, 2007)

Posted at 6:03 pm on Sep 11, 2019
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JFK assassination tops my list... of course I was a Catholic teenager then and idolized him.

Author: Curly1918 (16437 Posts - Joined: Aug 30, 2017)

Posted at 9:27 am on Sep 11, 2019
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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

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