Fun Meme
OMGosh! Mac over at Mulier Fortis has saved me from having to "brain" today. This is a really fun meme.
OMGosh! Mac over at Mulier Fortis has saved me from having to "brain" today. This is a really fun meme.
It's a "what were you doing, and where" meme... Now Mac, being Mac, put these events in chronological order (which I would have done, too.)
1. President Kennedy's Assassination - 22 November 1963.
I actually can remember this like it was yesterday. I was at home in St. Paul, MN and my brother called me from work and announced that President Kennedy had been shot. I thought he was joking and almost hung up on him. He finally convinced me to turn on the TV. Those of us that were "of age" (I was 17), remember this as the event that changed our world view.Walter Cronkite was the first on-air news person to announce President Kennedy's death, which he did while choking up with tears. I was in shock, as was most of the country. I clearly remember being in front of the TV almost 24/7 as the events and funeral played out. I will also never forget the sight of Jackie Kennedy in her blood stained suit that she refused to change. "Let them see what they have done," was her reason for not putting on a different suit.
The photo above is Black Jack, the riderless horse that was part of the funeral procession.
2. England's World Cup Semi Final v Germany - 4 July 1990
Not even on my radar. And since I didn't quit drinking until the 25th of that month I was probably drunk.
3. Margaret Thatcher's resignation - 22 November 1990
I don't remember what I was doing at the exact moment it was announced, but I remember following it in the news. July 25, 1990 was when I became a "card carrying" member of A.A. My husband entered the program in November just days before this happened, so I'm sure we were very busy with meetings as we started our journey into the world of sober folk.
4. Princess Diana's death - 31 August 1997
I heard she had been in an accident while I was driving home. About an hour later I was out in front of my house and my neighbor drove by and said Diana had died. My shock was immediate. I always had great admiration for Diana and was deeply affected by her death.The royal wedding took place not too long before my Mom's death from cancer. My Mom was living with my husband and I so we could care for her. In order to watch the wedding live (we lived in Arizona then), we had to get up at some weird time like 2 or 3 am. Both my Mom and I put on fancy hats and our gloves (while still in our jammies), and sat on her bed drinking tea while watching the festivities. I can still see my husbands face at the bedroom door. He was in complete disbelief that two grown women would do such a thing. I miss my Mom and I miss Diana. My prayer is for them to be drinking tea together in heaven.
5. Attack on the twin towers - 11 September 2001
I had just arrived at work as an optician. The doctor had that day off so I was alone to run the office for the day. I turned on the radio right after arriving so it must have been about 9:00 am our time when I heard the announcement. I could not wrap my brain around what I was hearing and because I couldn't leave the office I didn't see any TV coverage until I went home at about 3:30. I will never, ever, ever forget the first time I saw the footage of those planes flying into the WTC or the sight of people jumping from the upper floors. Ever!!! And none of you should, either.
6. The election of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger to the papacy - 19 April 2005
Oh yes, indeedy! I was glued to the TV and when I heard his name I exploded with glee (even though I had guessed wrong. Nothing that has happened since has changed my mind. God sends the right man at the right time.I'm not going to tag anyone, but I will make strong suggestions for who should do this meme. No extra purgatory time if you decide to not do it. Promise!
1. Jeffrey at Roving Medievalist 2
2. Paramedic Girl at Salve Regina
3. Christine at A Catholic View
4. Mark at Dominican Idaho
5. Anyone who thinks this would be fun. Let me know if you decide to participate
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14 comments:
Me me. I want to play. This does look like a good one.
You're on!!
Hey, I thought my mom and I were the only ones who stayed up all night for that wedding. ;-D Oddly enough *before* the wedding a girlfriend and I speculated that they really weren't well suited ... sadly, we were right.
I liked what you said about it being a changed world after the Kennedy assassination. I mark it as the end of my early childhood.
I remember those days well, and it really was like a different country - "the past is a foreign place, they do things differently there" really applies. Recently someone gave me a boxful of old life Magazines, many dealing with JFK etc. did you see the show American Dreams? It was a period piece and the opening episodes started with the assassination. Extremely well written. What an explosive decade. Radical difference and changes social, politically, technologically, every which way I was sorry I wasn't a little older at the start of the decade but I was glad I got to see that whole era all that first hand.
Karen
Yes - but did you guys wear hats and gloves? It was a formal wedding after all.
I lived through the disintegration. It was very puzzling to see your world change so fast. It didn’t really filter down to the peons until the late
60’s.
Remember Woodstock and the Manson murders both happened in 1969. Those two events will always be connected in my mind.
And, of course, the poor implementation of Vat II had taken away the only anchor most Catholics had. Weird time...
Memories of the 60's that stand out for me:
1. The death of JFK, MLK Jr and RFK. (The day of RFK's death was the day of my grandmother's first stroke.)
2. The Moon landing.
3. Learning all the "altar boy" prayers in Latin and then having to learn them again in English before I could serve.
4. Paul McCartney's "death". Those who are old enough will remember.
RJW - I was at the Ford Theater when Lincoln was assassinated Errrrk!
Adrienne: But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
Rj: Yep...literally a couple of weeks before our first communion the BTW...your mass will be in English was sprung. Poor baby...you'd just learned all the confiteor etc. only to not get a chance to use it at Mass.
The first "big" story I was aware of was the Cuban missile crisis, but I was unfazed by it assuming the grownups would sort it all out.
Somehow at the start of the decade you still wore white gloves on some occasions, and by the end of it the hippies were bathing naked in mud holes at woodstock.
"Somehow at the start of the decade you still wore white gloves on some occasions, and by the end of it the hippies were bathing naked in mud holes at woodstock."
ROFLMAO!!!! I still have some of my gloves. No kidding!! And we wore them ALL the time. Church on Sunday, out on a fancy date, etc I sometimes wear them to church.
Oh, boy, some of those will be easy to answer, and some will pass me by. I'll give it a shot tomorrow.
President Kennedy's Assassination: I remember that school got out early that day - I was very young, just starting school, and do not remember much more than being surprised that Canada let all their students out of school out of respect for the US president.
World Cup - I have no idea - I'm ot a soccer fan. This is soccer, isn't it?
Margaret Thatcher's resignation - Again, not significant for me.
Princess Diana's death - I was in Revelstoke, BC, at the Best Western hotel - there for a slow pitch tournament when I heard the news on TV. It was so sad.
Attack on the Twin Towers - I was woken up by a phone call from my son who told me that America was under attack. It was a very shocking incident to say the least.
The election of Pope Benedict XVI - I think I was at home when this news broke. Thank God for Pope Benedict! He was the best possible choice, and he is truly led by the Holy Spirit.
Ah, yes. Camelot indeed has faded off into the mists. I hate it that I must die soon with all that gone.
But Benedict XVI? What a surprise -- not a Rottweiler at all! Maybe there is still hope for another Camelot after I am gone.
Adrienne,
couple of good ones, indeed!
1. 11/22/63 - I was in my 5th grade classroom when the announcer came on with the news. I remember putting my head in my arms and weeping.
2.7/4/1990 - World Cup, is that a drinking competition?
3. 11/22/1990 - Thatcher resignation. heck of a way to remember JFK.
4. 9/31/1997 - Princess Diana's death. don't remember anything about it, there was someone else who died that day too, someone closer to the heart of God than the heart of the world...
5. 9/11/2001 - had gone in with wife for her chemotherapy, she entered remission that day, and it what a while before our joy was tempered by the awareness that something was really distracting the nurses, staff, and other patients. No, we didn't sit in a hospital room under a blaring TV.
6. 4/19/05 - Election of B16! Now that was a day when the blogging rumor express was carrying a welcome arrival! A better day than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Army's "no, we will not fire on the parliment building".
Great answers, Adrienne!
I've played.
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