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On Nov 15, 8:42 pm, "Michael O'Connor" <mpoconn...@aol.com> wrote:
> 9/11 - I was between jobs and got up (ironically, I vividly remember
> my alarm clock read 9:11 AM when I awoke) and got online to check on a
> bunch of resumes I had sent out and was waiting for a response on.
> When my AOL screen came up they showed the WTC on fire and I ran to
> the TV and stayed glued to it for about four days.
>
> JFK - It was about three months before I was born.
>
> Buddy Holly - Before I was born.
>
> Elvis - I didn't find out about the death of Elvis until about a week
> after he died.  We were on vacation at a lake house in the middle of
> the Allegheny forest without TV or radio or news or contact with
> others for about 8-9 days.  The car radio did not work either.  It
> wasn't until after we got back home and turned on the TV that we found
> out about Elvis.  I think he died on a Tuesday early morning and it
> was the following Monday I found out about it.  I remember the next
> day going thru the newspapers that had accumulated on the front porch
> during the week we were gone to see what else I missed and was more
> upset that Groucho Marx had passed away a couple days after Elvis than
> I was with Elvis dying.

I'm a very big fan of the Marx Brothers, and remember well that Elvis
and Groucho died the same week.  I was quite sad about Groucho, but
Elvis' death was a shocker.

I'm not real fan of Elvis, but I appreciate who he was, what he did,
and enjoy a lot of his music.  I was 27 when Elvis died, and have a
good friend who is several years older than me...and a very big Elvis
fan.  He called me that afternoon to tell me the news...he just
couldn't believe it.  I comforted him the best I could...three years
later he did the same for me when Lennon was assassinated.