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On Nov 14, 9:10 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.
>
I just happened to go online a little past 9 AM (Eastern time) and was
viewing the home page of my local newspaper, when there was a bulletin
about a plane crashing into the WTC.  I just assumed that it was a
small private plane gone terribly off course.  I decided to turn on
the TV to CNN, and that's when I found out.  I called my wife on her
cell phone, she was in line at a grocery store check-out, and she told
everyone there.  I was listening to my car radio to a reporter who was
stationed at the Pentagon, when he suddenly stopped, and said, "Oh my
God, there was this terrible crash and explosion at the other end of
the building"...yep, he was broadasting live as the plane crashed into
the pentagon.  The whole situation, with the "what's going to happen
next" feeling reminded me of when JFK was assassinated.

> 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.

I was a 13 yr. old 8th grader on 11/23/63.  My last period of the day
on Fridays was a study hall, and then we returned to our homerooms for
a weekly spelling test.  While in the study period, we saw a teacher
come in and whisper something to our study hall teacher...all the
color left her face.  Then the bell rang, and we went to our
homerooms...I heard something about Kennedy, but didn't really know
what was going on.  My homeroom teacher told us the news that Kennedy
had been shot, but when the dismissal bell rang, we didn't know he was
dead.  When I got home, I told my mother that I heard JFK had been
shot in Dallas, and she replied these five words that are forever
etched in my brain, "The poor man is dead."
>
> Buddy Holly: I was in 9th grade and moms told me when I returned home
> from school.

I was in 3rd grade, and had no idea who Buddy Holly was.  I didn't
discover him until after The Beatles conquered America