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On Nov 14, 8:10 am, h...@home.org (Way Back Jack) wrote:
> 9/11:  There's a path on my property that I used for jogging, naked in
> warm weather, except for running shoes, baseball cap, and radio ear
> phones.  Anyway, the news interrupted the soft-rock show and I ran
> back to the house and told the old lady to turn on the tube.
>
> JFK: I was cruising in a '58 Impala on Pulaski Hwy. when the news of
> the shooting interrupted Johnny Tillotson's "Talk Back Trembling
> Lips."  Death had not yet been confirmed.  Man, I had to tell someone
> so I stopped in this redneck dive in White Marsh.  There were no
> patrons just an old hag behind the bar.  She just stared without
> responding.  "Aw ya old fart, if you don't believe me, turn on ya
> radio, if ya have one."  Whereupon I left.
>
> Buddy Holly: I was in 9th grade and moms told me when I returned home
> from school.

9/11: My wife and I were on a seniors' group  tour going up the
Mississippi river. The group had spent overnight at a Holidome in
Davenport, Iowa. We embarked on a large riverboat the morning of 9/11,
and began the cruise up the river. It was a beautiful day; sunny,
clear blue sky, windless, etc.Our destination was Galena, Illinois,
where one of U. S. Grant's post civil war homes is located. About
halfway thru the cruise there began some strange mutterings and
uneasiness among the passengers. No one seemed certain as to what was
going on, but somehow rumors had begun about an airplane striking a
building in New York. Eventually some people with cell phones were
able to make reliable contact with friends and learned the horrible
truth. The tour director came around to each of us personally and
divulged the whole story, so as to avoid conflicting accounts. Someone
pointed out that there were absolutely no jet plane trails in the
completely clear sky; lending credibility to the account that the
government had suspended all flights of any kind but military. When we
reached Galena, my wife and I just spent the evening and night
watching the disaster unfold on the TV in our room. We sinply couldn't
believe our eyes and ears! Needless to say our entire group grew
completely silent and introspective for the remainder of this sad trip

JFK: I was in my office when the word got out. I'm not sure how I
initially heard about it, but when I tried to call my wife the entire
phone system was bogged down. No surprise.there. When I did reach her
she of course already knew about it from TV.