It has been 50 years since President Kennedy was assassinated. It happened at 1:30PM (EST) and at the time I was 5 years old and in Kindergarten
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Not born yet--as was, I suspect, a major portion of your friends list.
Some years back I was talking to a much younger person who, to my shock, didn't remember the Challenger disaster (1/28/1986). Then I realized what it must be like for people your age when people my age say we don't remember the JFK assassination.
"If you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that JFK had been shot, you're a Baby Boomer; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that the Challenger had blown up, you're Gen-X; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, you're a Millennial."
"If you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that JFK had been shot, you're a Baby Boomer; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that the Challenger had blown up, you're Gen-X; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, you're a Millennial."
This. Though I was four at the time of the Challenger disaster, and could have remembered it in theory, because I do have memories from that age and younger, except no, I was too young for this to make any impression on me, and so I don't remember it. Once I was a little older, however, I certainly recall hearing about it.
I was about a year and a half away from coming into being. I do remember my mother relating the story about how she was feeding my brother at the house they were living in before the one they (mother & father) were building across town, the one where I grew up in. Mom was feeding brother and as I recall, grandmother came out of the house crying 'The President has been shot!'. Mom said she almost dropped my brother on his head.
If she actually had, it would certainly go towards explaining a lot of my brother's eventual behavior and our current estrangement.
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Some years back I was talking to a much younger person who, to my shock, didn't remember the Challenger disaster (1/28/1986). Then I realized what it must be like for people your age when people my age say we don't remember the JFK assassination.
"If you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that JFK had been shot, you're a Baby Boomer; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard that the Challenger had blown up, you're Gen-X; if you remember where you were and what you were doing when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred, you're a Millennial."
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This. Though I was four at the time of the Challenger disaster, and could have remembered it in theory, because I do have memories from that age and younger, except no, I was too young for this to make any impression on me, and so I don't remember it. Once I was a little older, however, I certainly recall hearing about it.
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If she actually had, it would certainly go towards explaining a lot of my brother's eventual behavior and our current estrangement.
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