hey guys - i was browsing through different ppls LJ's and came across this - so i tag despotliz

Where were you...

For Live Aid? (13 July, 1985)

Probably being fed - was only 3 months old.

When flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie? (21 December, 1988)

I don't recall it. i was only 3. but i have seen most of the photos and documentaries since.

When the Berlin Wall fell (9 November, 1989)

too young to remember.

When Thatcher resigned (22 November, 1990)

Again too young to remember. too innocent..lol

When the Gulf War began (16 January, 1991)

Again cannot remember. though i remember the second gulf war began.

When Thomas Hamilton shot 3 teachers and 28 pupils at Dunblane primary school?

This one i remember - we were in Yr6 at primary school and our teacher comes in and tells us the news. she is really upset because she was from scotland. i think it hit home to the teachers as well that things like this can happen.

When Princess Di was killed (31 August, 1997)

Asleep when it happened but when i woke up i was really excited becasue i was going out for the day with one of my friends andher dad to this medieval armoury thing in Leeds. came downstairs turned tv on and me and my older brother couldnt understand why the sport was not on then we started hearing things and we were gobsmaked i raced upstairs to tell my mumand she did not believe me until she came down adn saw the news for her self.Was so shocking. i think that what got everyone - no one was prepared, no one expected her to die so young and so suddenly.

At midnight, 31 January, 1999?

At my mums friends house - in the middle of the street with some neighbours who also had come outside singing auld lans (well however you spell it) lol.

When terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center (11 September, 2001)

Was at college - on a free period or was a skipping a boring general studies class - probably the latter - was on the internet looking at news stories when it caught my eye. i told my friend and its horrible to say but we laughed. we thought how the hell can someone fly a plane into the building! then a woman came out rushing to tell another woman who worked there that another plane had hit, that she heard it was terrosits. well we were speachless. we felt haweful for laughing. then on the way home the whole bus was talking about it. i got home and my sisters are there with my mum watching the tv - it is on every channel. when my mum was at hime and turned tv on she had not heard about it. but she saw the 'live' fee dof the second plane hitting the tower and she thought it was a action film. seeing the pictures now, the documentaries still upsets me. its one of those things that you never expect to happen

When Columbia disintegrated during re-entry over Texas. (1/2/2003)

I was home when a news flash came on. again its one of those heart stopping moments. to burn up on entry on the way home. i was and still interested in space and the space shuttles so it was a shock. i have the newspaper. not from that one but from the first space shuttle that went to space since the disaster.



So what about you guys? Can any of you remember these events?