Where were you January 28th, 1986? [Archive]

clayj

Jan 28, 2005, 02:09 PM

I was a senior in high school... that week, however, I was working as a Governor's Page (State of NC) working in the Department of Commerce building in downtown Raleigh... was on the elevator between floors when someone said, "Hey, did you hear that the space shuttle blew up?" There weren't many TVs in the building, so business pretty much continued as usual. When I got home that night, I got the whole story and watched President Reagan make his memorable speech.

edesignuk

Jan 28, 2005, 02:12 PM

I have no idea, I was barely 3 years old :eek: :D

maya

Jan 28, 2005, 02:14 PM

On vacation in a plane flying from Europe to the USA. :)

I cannot believe I remembered that. :)

njmac

Jan 28, 2005, 02:16 PM

I was on a 7th grade field trip to Lincoln Center NYC with my Junior High Orechestra. They made an announcement before the performance and we had one minute of silence.

Yamson

Jan 28, 2005, 02:23 PM

I was in first grade... living on the west coast, the disaster happened just as we were all getting to school in the morning. I remember all the teachers huddled around a TV watching the replay over and over again while the students just kind of sat around not really grasping what happened.

jsw

Jan 28, 2005, 02:25 PM

Junior year, University of Illinois, Aero/Astro Engineering. Saw it on live on TV in the Student Union, waiting to go to class (or was it while blowing off class?). One of my profs was on the task force that investigated the O-ring failure.

sorryiwasdreami

Jan 28, 2005, 02:29 PM

Inspired by a /. poll....

I was in 4th grade watching on a small color TV when the Challenger went down. They shut the program off about 30 seconds after they realized what we were seeing.

I, too, was in 4th grade (I think learning to write cursive) when they told us the Challenger blew up. It wasn't until that night that I saw recaps of it on the tv news.

pivo6

Jan 28, 2005, 02:29 PM

Junior year at the University of Illinois as well, but I was in my apartment getting ready to go for a class.

realityisterror

Jan 28, 2005, 02:50 PM

in an egg... :rolleyes:

oh well.. nothing interesting going on there..
reality

me_94501

Jan 28, 2005, 02:54 PM

I was 2 years old, but knowing my mom was in a grocery store when it happened, I'd say I was there too.

MongoTheGeek

Jan 28, 2005, 03:05 PM

I was lying in bed sick at home when the challenger exploded.
On 9/11 I had taken a day off work sick.
I was being given anesthetic for a procedure when Columbia exploded.

PlaceofDis

Jan 28, 2005, 03:06 PM

I have no idea, I was barely 3 years old :eek: :D

ditto :D :o

Lyle

Jan 28, 2005, 03:43 PM

I was sophomore in high school, sitting in my AP European History class. The principal announced it over the intercom, I think. As was the case in many schools, some kids were down in the media center watching it live on TV when it happened.

TDM21

Jan 28, 2005, 03:48 PM

wasn't even born yet; that happened in April

kosmo

Jan 28, 2005, 04:10 PM

Since Jan. 28 is my birthday, I was celebrating my 4th b-day.

Raid

Jan 28, 2005, 04:12 PM

I remember it cause I was in grade 6, sick and p'd off that if I didn't get better my mom was going to cancel my birthday party. :( So I was lying on the couch feeling like hell, and then the news flashes started (I think it was just before noon). They played the accident so many times that day, I could see it when I closed my eyes. The one thing I did notice is that they had a shot of the reaction of the crowd very early on in the reporting. I think they took it out because they realised some of the crew's family were filmed watching their loved ones die. :(

<edit> Uh ... Happy Birthday Kosmo </edit>

blackfox

Jan 28, 2005, 04:20 PM

I was lying in bed sick at home when the challenger exploded.
On 9/11 I had taken a day off work sick.
I was being given anesthetic for a procedure when Columbia exploded.
that's funny. I was sick with the flu when the challenger exploded, when the columbia exploded and on 9/11 (also).

Bad things happen when I am ill. (BTW, I was also sick [recovering] on November 2nd, 2004)

kasei

Jan 28, 2005, 04:37 PM

It was a snow day so we didn't have school. I was at my girlfriends parent's house watching the shuttle Challenger explode into a million pieces on TV. Has it been that long?

wdlove

Jan 28, 2005, 04:43 PM

I was working permanent nights at the VA. Believe that I was off on that coming night. I remember watching the coverage on CNN. A very sad day. Here we are today with a hold on shuttle flights due to another accident.

Applespider

Jan 28, 2005, 04:47 PM

At home watching children's TV.

The BBC Children's programme, Newsround, were very keen in educational newsstories and were covering the launch in any case. They broke the news to the UK and its children.

mactastic

Jan 28, 2005, 04:49 PM

(BTW, I was also sick [recovering] on November 2nd, 2004)
That wasn't a case of alchohol-induced sickness was it? :eek:

blackfox

Jan 28, 2005, 04:56 PM

That wasn't a case of alchohol-induced sickness was it? :eek:Good memory. Busted. (though that was even truer the following day)

dsharits

Jan 28, 2005, 04:57 PM

wasn't even born yet; that happened in April

Same here, except I came in June.

Daniel

Peterkro

Jan 28, 2005, 05:01 PM

Can't even remember what country I was living in let alone what I was doing. :confused:

iBook

Jan 28, 2005, 05:04 PM

I was a freshman at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

mymemory

Jan 28, 2005, 05:11 PM

I was in Venezuela, 11 years old, ready to my 12th birthday (Like I am doing today actually).

I saw the explosion on tv and I only remember my mother saying: Poor people, they were the smartest of the smartest. And she was all sad, I was sad too I almost cry.

... and then there was a Ponky Bruster episode about it!

jlewis2k1

Jan 28, 2005, 05:14 PM

i would have no idea i was like 6 or 7 months old ... probably recovering from sugery or something. who knows. :eek:

aloofman

Jan 28, 2005, 05:19 PM

I was in fifth-grade English class, watching it live on TV. The teachers were especially interested in letting us watch it during class because there was a teacher on board. I remember at first thinking it was some kind of clip they edited in of another botched rocket launch, that it couldn't be real. For a while it was pretty hectic, all the kids trying to figure out what was going on. I was big on the space program then and was especially crushed.

My bedroom at the time had a wall-length mural of the space shuttle Columbia over the earth. Whenever friends would come over, one of them would invariably ask, "Is that the one that blew up?" And I'd respond with something like, "No, that was Challenger, dumb-ass." That mural is still in the room, although it's my parents' guest room now. Recently I spent the night there and looked up and it occurred to me that if someone had asked me again, I'd instead have to say, "Yes, Columbia is gone too."

devman

Jan 28, 2005, 05:21 PM

business trip. hong kong to australia.

virividox

Jan 28, 2005, 05:44 PM

7 months old probably in my crib

AmigoMac

Jan 28, 2005, 05:58 PM

Hey, where are the old people when needed, a lot of children here and no real information about the date... I was 5 :)

Thomas Veil

Jan 28, 2005, 06:20 PM

I was at work in the video production department. Somebody down the hall mentioned the disaster -- I believe they heard it on the radio -- and we snapped on the TV. It was so tragic, we spent a couple of hours watching the coverage, even though were on the clock. No one questioned it. In fact, people from nearby departments kept sticking their heads in to watch.

mymemory

Jan 28, 2005, 06:43 PM

Actually there was a cruel joke about it:

Do you know what was the last transmision received from the Challenger?

-Let her drive now.

xsedrinam

Jan 28, 2005, 06:45 PM

Medellín, Colombia listening to Armed Forces Radio.
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joepunk

Jan 28, 2005, 07:19 PM

I was five years old then and don't know what I was doing at the time (probably at home). My grandfather was watching the shuttle takeoff and realized that something went wrong and grabbed his camera. My dad has the pictures now.

djbahdow01

Jan 28, 2005, 08:23 PM

I was 3 years and 3 days old, can't quite remember it. Although i do remember hearing about it later in my early schooling years.

fistful

Jan 28, 2005, 08:35 PM

I was 5, be rest assured wherever I was I was probably playing with myself. :eek:

not much has changed... :rolleyes:

sushi

Jan 28, 2005, 08:37 PM

Deefuzz

Jan 28, 2005, 08:41 PM

I was 6 years old, and I actually remember being home sick from school that day. I remember seeing it happen on TV with my mother. Even at that young age, I was completely stunned

Counterfit

Jan 28, 2005, 09:39 PM

I was lying in bed sick at home when the challenger exploded.
On 9/11 I had taken a day off work sick.
I was being given anesthetic for a procedure when Columbia exploded. That's it, I'm putting you on an antibiotic IV! Heck, maybe you should never call in sick, or go to a hospital or doctor again ;)

As for myself, I was getting ready for my first birthday, so I don't remember a damn thing :(

wdlove

Jan 28, 2005, 09:43 PM

I was a freshman at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

I'm an alumnus of Miami University also, but the Middletown Campus. A friend and brother-in-law are alumnus of the Oxford campus also. What a small world. Occurred late '60" and early '70's though.

stubeeef

Jan 28, 2005, 09:50 PM

I had just returned from an early morning training flight, I was in flight training (Navy) in Corpus Christi. Had just got back to the condo, grabbed a snack and put my boots up on the coffee table, cut on the tv and saw the countdown starting, it was stunning. :(

18thTomorrow

Jan 28, 2005, 10:05 PM

I was about 6 months' gestation...not born yet.

Ya'll are old. :D

Chip NoVaMac

Jan 28, 2005, 10:19 PM

Actually there was a cruel joke about it:

Leave it to you to go down a path that was not taken. :mad:

Chip NoVaMac

Jan 28, 2005, 10:22 PM

Boy the posts here are making me feel very old. I was 28 at the time managing a 1 hour photo lab in Crystal City VA. Someone came in and told us what was happening. We sold small electronics, so we opened a TV and watched the news in horror.

zwida

Jan 28, 2005, 10:57 PM

7th Grade. I think I must have been in math class, because I remember my very odd teacher coming in and telling us what had happened. The principal came over the PA a few minutes later to release us from school for the day. Hard to think that we would react quite the same way now, but in 1986 (and to a twelve year old) it felt like such a momentous, life changing event.

Some memories don't really fade, I guess. The sky that late January day in northern California (where I grew up) was similar to the 9/11/01 NYC blue sky. So blue and clear and "perfect" that you'd want it to go on forever.

Mechcozmo

Jan 28, 2005, 11:06 PM

I wouldn't come around for another few years. :rolleyes:

Actually there was a cruel joke about it:

Do you know what was the last transmision received from the Challenger?

-Let her drive now.

:confused: Am I not old enough to get this? :confused:

obeygiant

Jan 28, 2005, 11:31 PM

I was across the lake from the cape when it happened. I remember watching the shuttle take off and a guy near us had a scanner so we could all here the communications. They did the throttle up and then it just happend. The guy who had the scanner says "she exploded" because none of us knew what happened. Then the guy on the radio goes "we have a major malfunction." I was eleven years old.

My dad took and entire 36 roll of the event. You can flip the pictures by and see it like a small movie.

the strange thing was that the now infamous cloud glowed orange for about 30 minutes.

When we got back to our hotel room it was all over the news.

Other things that happened that day was that the voyager 2 craft swung by Neptune and observed giant storms.

Also L. Ron Hubbard died, (i think). My mom said it was poetic justice that his death was over shadowed by a national tragedy. take that for what its worth.

http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/special/challenger/

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/movies/movies.html

chanoc

Jan 28, 2005, 11:47 PM

I was supposed to be watching the Shuttle program in the 8th-grade science class, but was skipping school smoking pot in the woods in Tumwater, WA..

See, I got high and remembered! :p

Mechcozmo

Jan 29, 2005, 12:07 AM

I was supposed to be watching the Shuttle program in the 8th-grade science class, but was skipping school smoking pot in the woods in Tumwater, WA..

See, I got high and remembered! :p

Wow... I guess that is a way to remember... not a good way mind you, but a way...

phreakout13

Jan 29, 2005, 12:35 AM

I was a sperm/ egg. Those were the best years of my life. I think I was alive for the Exxon Valdez. Does anyone remember what date that happened on?

MacNut

Jan 29, 2005, 03:08 AM

I was in first grade but I remember watching Dan Rather on TV so Im not sure if I was in school that day or not.

obeygiant

Jan 29, 2005, 03:08 AM

skunk

Jan 29, 2005, 05:47 AM

that's funny. I was sick with the flu when the challenger exploded, when the columbia exploded and on 9/11 (also).

Bad things happen when I am ill. (BTW, I was also sick [recovering] on November 2nd, 2004)
Perhaps you should let us know next time you feel unwell...

Chip NoVaMac

Jan 29, 2005, 06:52 AM

I was a sperm/ egg. Those were the best years of my life. I think I was alive for the Exxon Valdez. Does anyone remember what date that happened on?

A little Googling can be fun and educational. The Valdez accident happened on March 24th, 1989.

MacSA

Jan 29, 2005, 06:54 AM

http://www.space-shuttle.com/challeng.htm

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Chapter-3.txt

Beginning at about 72 seconds, a series of events occurred extremely
rapidly that terminated the flight. Telemetered data indicate a wide
variety of flight system actions that support the visual evidence of
the photos as the Shuttle struggled futilely against the forces that
were destroying it.

At about 72.20 seconds the lower strut linking the Solid Rocket
Booster and the External Tank was severed or pulled away from the
weakened hydrogen tank permitting the right Solid Rocket Booster to
rotate around the upper attachment strut. This rotation is indicated
by divergent yaw and pitch rates between the left and right Solid
Rocket Boosters.

At 73.124 seconds,. a circumferential white vapor pattern was
observed blooming from the side of the External Tank bottom dome.
This was the beginning of the structural failure of hydrogen tank that
culminated in the entire aft dome dropping away. This released
massive amounts of liquid hydrogen from the tank and created a sudden
forward thrust of about 2.8 million pounds, pushing the hydrogen tank
upward into the intertank structure. At about the same time, the
rotating right Solid Rocket Booster impacted the intertank structure
and the lower part of the liquid oxygen tank. These structures failed
at 73.137 seconds as evidenced by the white vapors appearing in the
intertank region.

Within milliseconds there was massive, almost explosive, burning of
the hydrogen streaming from the failed tank bottom and liquid oxygen
breach in the area of the intertank.

At this point in its trajectory, while traveling at a Mach number of
1.92 at an altitude of 46,000 feet, the Challenger was totally
enveloped in the explosive burn. The Challenger's reaction control
system ruptured and a hypergolic burn of its propellants occurred as
it exited the oxygen-hydrogen flames. The reddish brown colors of the
hypergolic fuel burn are visible on the edge of the main fireball.
The Orbiter, under severe aerodynamic loads, broke into several large
sections which emerged from the fireball. Separate sections that can
be identified on film include the main engine/tail section with the
engines still burning, one wing of the Orbiter, and the forward
fuselage trailing a mass of umbilical lines pulled loose from the
payload bay.

rosalindavenue

Jan 29, 2005, 07:59 AM

Junior in high school. I think I was skipping class in the library and a teacher ran in and turned on the TV-- as someone else recalled, there was a teacher (Christa McAuliffe) on board and a lot of kids in a lot of classrooms were watching. Here's NASA's page about the crew.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/challenger.html

sebisworld

Jan 29, 2005, 09:44 AM

I was probably in some kind of bed, considering that I was just like 9 month old.

But I remember exactly where I was September 11th (I can basically retell the entire day). And of course January 29th, 2005.

Lyle

Jan 29, 2005, 10:34 AM

I was about 6 months' gestation...not born yet.

Ya'll are old. :DWatch it there, youngster. That comment's going to come back to haunt you in about twenty years when some whippersnapper is shocked to hear that you were actually alive on 9/11 (or that you actually remember when people bought music on CDs, or whatever). ;)

Lyle

Jan 29, 2005, 10:36 AM

:confused: Am I not old enough to get this? :confused:No, you just have better taste.

notjustjay

Jan 29, 2005, 10:39 AM

I was at home eating lunch. I was in grade 3 or something, and I walked home from school every day for lunch. I would usually eat while watching cartoons on TV like Spiderman and the Flintstones.

I remember watching it with my mom, and we were both stunned by what we were seeing. Mom was confused, she was like, "uh, is it supposed to do that?" (or maybe that was me, I can't remember) :rolleyes:

I also recall exactly what I was doing on 9/11...

Dont Hurt Me

Jan 29, 2005, 10:47 AM

Dont remember where i was then but i do know this is the same Nasa that wants to throw away the Hubble space telescope. Directed by the clowns running the whitehouse. any surprise?

Lyle

Jan 29, 2005, 12:22 PM

Dont remember where i was then but i do know this is the same Nasa that wants to throw away the Hubble space telescope. Directed by the clowns running the whitehouse. any surprise?Please take this garbage to the Political Forum: that's what it's there for. Once you're there you can start a thread on how Karl Rove caused the Challenger explosion or whatever your heart desires, but it's completely uncalled for here.

blackfox

Jan 29, 2005, 01:26 PM

Please take this garbage to the Political Forum: that's what it's there for. Once you're there you can start a thread on how Karl Rove caused the Challenger explosion or whatever your heart desires, but it's completely uncalled for here.
I think you may have taken DHM's post wrong (or I did...). I took it as merely stating how politics enters into the development (or non-development) of the space program, sometimes with unfortunate results. I don't think he was talking about Bush/Rove specifically, but also of Reagain, Bush Sr and Clinton. I think somethimes Nasa is pushed to move too fast and not given the amount of money they should, by the politicos. I thought that is what DHM was getting at.

After all, we just had the really cool Titan exploration, despite any clowns holding the purse strings. We also had the Hubble, which was shoddily put together. It is a mixed bag.

dsharits

Jan 29, 2005, 01:35 PM

(BTW, I was also sick [recovering] on November 2nd, 2004)

I thought you said only bad things happen when you are ill.

Daniel

silentrage

Jan 29, 2005, 01:48 PM

9th grade French class. The entire school building was watching as it was such a historical event. Who knew, prior to liftoff, that it would gian such historical magnitude becuase of blowing up. :confused:

Sweetfeld28

Jan 29, 2005, 02:32 PM

i think i was in first, or second grade, i can't remember. I was seven, when the Challenger exploded.

killuminati

Jan 29, 2005, 02:35 PM

well, I was ummmm. o wait I wasn't born yet, not for another 4 years.

But I do remember exactly what I was doing on 9/11

Mechcozmo

Jan 29, 2005, 06:29 PM

No, you just have better taste.

Good to know.

MOFS

Jan 29, 2005, 07:16 PM

ditto :D :o

hmmm...only 2 and a bit years old. This is getting highly suspicous - what are the chances of three people on a board being born so close to each other... :D

[insert edesignuk's picture of suspicious dog here]

BubbaJones

Jan 29, 2005, 08:17 PM

Wow. Its great to find out what everyone was doing. Kinda like a stroll down memory lane.

B.T.W. With all the "Just Born/Not Born Yet" posts, I'm really starting to feel old. ;)

wdlove

Jan 29, 2005, 09:38 PM

Wow. Its great to find out what everyone was doing. Kinda like a stroll down memory lane.

B.T.W. With all the "Just Born/Not Born Yet" posts, I'm really starting to feel old. ;)

IMHO you are still quite young. Enjoy it while it lasts. ;)

Cooknn

Jan 29, 2005, 11:07 PM

Inspired by a /. poll....
Getting laid somewhere on Sanibel Island, FL. Those were the days :o

absolut_mac

Jan 30, 2005, 01:41 AM

Please take this garbage to the Political Forum: that's what it's there for. Once you're there you can start a thread on how Karl Rove caused the Challenger explosion or whatever your heart desires, but it's completely uncalled for here.

Well put!!!

For the life of me I really don't understand why these people feel the need to interject their politics into every discussion.

Is something missing in their lives? Are they unaware that we have a political forum here on MR for their political diatribes? Or do they feel that this is the only way for them to get their candidate into the white house?

mpw

Jan 30, 2005, 02:48 AM

Playing rugby for the school

cyanide

Jan 30, 2005, 03:22 AM

i was knee deep in the jungles outside of shush makir in India. My unit was assigned to wipe out a batch of Peace Corps activists. annnnd let the "that post offends me because _________ ..." begin!

AmigoMac

Jan 30, 2005, 04:34 AM

IMHO you are still quite young. Enjoy it while it lasts. ;)

Yeah, now let's talk about July 1969 :D ;)

I was -11 years old... :)

wrc fan

Jan 30, 2005, 05:26 AM

... and then there was a Ponky Bruster episode about it!

I remember seeing that Punky Brewster episode... anyway I was in elementary school, I didn't hear about it untill I got home, but it was a big deal cause my Mom's a teacher.

poopyhead

Jan 30, 2005, 07:11 AM

I was in second grade sitting in the downstairs livingroom with my brother and grandma on my mom's side
my brother was big into space at the time so we watched it on tv
I had taken the day off from school because my grandma on my dad's side was dying

later that night i was eating kentucky fried chicken and laying in the back of my moms van outside the nursing home when my grandma actually died
i just remember my parents coming out to tell us what had happened
it was the first and only time i have ever seen my dad cry or be unable to talk
for some reason at the time all I could think about was how I could never eat and didn't like my grandma's runny scrambled eggs
i felt guilty and cried

jadam

Jan 30, 2005, 07:35 AM

wasn't born yet!

stillwater

Jan 30, 2005, 12:18 PM

That was one of those days I'll always remember where I was. I had turned 29 in December. My brother and I were carpenters remodelling a finished basement in Cambridge. Frank the plumber was there too.The home owners were at work somewhere else. The job radio was on the rock station. When the news bulletin came on, Frank said "lets go upstairs and turn on the TV". We all ran up the stairs to the kitchen and watched in horror as the network played the tape over and over.

On a similar note, I'll never be able to forget my birthday, December 26th, because that was the day of the Asian tsunami disaster.

tpjunkie

Jan 30, 2005, 01:52 PM

Preschool. I was almost two, so no, I don't remember it.

xsedrinam

Jan 30, 2005, 03:04 PM

Yeah, now let's talk about July 1969 :D ;)

I was -11 years old... :)

Well, AmigoMac:
Don't feel too old, you're among a sprinkling of peers, albeit probably a minority. I could talk to ya about July '69 (moon landing). I could even talk about shaking JFK's hand back in '63; so, consider yourself like a good wine. ;)
X

Chip NoVaMac

Jan 30, 2005, 03:59 PM

Well, AmigoMac:
Don't feel too old, you're among a sprinkling of peers, albeit probably a minority. I could talk to ya about July '69 (moon landing). I could even talk about shaking JFK's hand back in '63; so, consider yourself like a good wine. ;)
X

Well you are making me feel just a bit younger, never shook Kennedy's hand, but as a 5 yo I remember my Mom trying to set the house on fire with all the votive candles after he was shot.

xsedrinam

Jan 30, 2005, 04:17 PM

Well you are making me feel just a bit younger, never shook Kennedy's hand, but as a 5 yo I remember my Mom trying to set the house on fire with all the votive candles after he was shot.

That was a sad, long weekend for all the world. He had just visited our city some 6 weeks earlier and spoke at an open air mall rally right across from our high school. Because of the crowds, I got shoved right up to the edge of the platform area. Don't think I washed my hand for a week or so, afterwards.
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sethypoo

Jan 30, 2005, 04:24 PM

Let's see, I was probably still in daycare, learning how to tie my shoes.

Rower_CPU

Jan 30, 2005, 04:29 PM

Let's see, I was probably still in daycare, learning how to time my shoes.

So, how fast were your shoes back then? ;)

sethypoo

Jan 30, 2005, 04:30 PM

So, how fast were your shoes back then? ;)

Whoops, I meant tie.

Edge100

Jan 30, 2005, 05:22 PM

Second grade. I was home for lunch.

I distinctly remember it because I was very "into" space travel etc at the time. I remember it didnt deter me from wanting to be an astronaut.

fawlty

Jan 30, 2005, 05:38 PM

I was working in the shearing shed, a hot summer day. Busy, noisy, handpieces humming and smelling of hot oil. Listening to reports as they came through on the radio.

MacSA

Jan 30, 2005, 05:54 PM

wasn't born yet!

:rolleyes: why do people need to keep telling us that? :rolleyes:

xsedrinam

Jan 30, 2005, 11:24 PM

:rolleyes: why do people need to keep telling us that? :rolleyes:

If it doesn't have to do with GenX world mind sets of "me-ism", "ethno-centrism" and "self worth" stuff, then I don't have a clue :cool: So, "I wasn't born yet" was "where they were", wherever that was/is/could be.
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wrc fan

Jan 30, 2005, 11:43 PM

If it doesn't have to do with GenX world mind sets of "me-ism", "ethno-centrism" and "self worth" stuff, then I don't have a clue :cool: So, "I wasn't born yet" was "where they were", wherever that was/is/could be.
X

Not sure what you mean by this, but everyone in the Generation X would have been born by that time and old enough to somewhat remember it (Gen X is commonly refered to as ending with 1981). So these not born yet people are Generation Y

Nermal

Jan 31, 2005, 01:51 AM

I don't remember where I was, as I was only 3, but I guess that I was in the hospital visiting my mum - it was my brother's birthday.

bubbamac

Jan 31, 2005, 09:54 AM

On the way out the door of my dorm room, on the way to my math class. I was walking past the neighbor's room, when he told me to come in, I wouldn't believe this. Never made it to class...

xsedrinam

Jan 31, 2005, 11:19 AM

Not sure what you mean by this, but everyone in the Generation X would have been born by that time and old enough to somewhat remember it (Gen X is commonly refered to as ending with 1981). So these not born yet people are Generation Y

Ya, "Boomlets" or "GenY's" will do, though the demographics attached to date groupings aren't slam dunks, at least among sociologists. My point was that, though they were unborn, they still have significance even though the '86 disaster predates them.
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