[thechat] On July 20th, 1969, humans first set foot on the Moon.

Rachel Lam lists at ewe-wish.com
Mon Jul 22 10:21:00 CDT 2002


> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020720.html
>
> anybody else old enough to remember?

Nope (before my time). I do want to mention a very surreal dinner party I
attended several weeks ago, though. Out of the five 20-somethings at the
table, I was the only one who even considered it a remote possibility that a
person really *had* been on the moon. The others all firmly believed it was
a hoax.


>   -- september 11 2001

Minnesota. When I first heard the news, I, too, thought they were referring
to an accident involving little prop-jets. We went to the student lobby in
the building next door to watch the news. I was sobbing because I feared my
brother was on one of the planes and he wasn't answering his cell phone and
I couldn't get ahold of his wife to check on his flight info. (He was ok,
but it took hours to find out.) The thought running through my head was a
bewildered, "But this is America. This doesn't happen here."


>   -- january 16 1991

Twelfth grade - Stuttgart, Germany. Mom's birthday. My dad (and the fathers
of most of my army-brat classmates) had been sent off to some undisclosed
location & I felt sheer terror that I would never see him again. My
boyfriend came over and we spent the entire day sitting in the dark,
watching the news. A few days later, I had to walk through an anti-American
protest outside the German school I attended in the mornings in order to get
to class. I ended up skipping german school for several weeks because we
were afraid someone would bomb my car. We also had to make our way past
rock-throwing protesters to get onto the army base where our American high
school was located.


>   -- january 28 1986

Seventh grade - Fairbanks, Alaska. I came downstairs for breakfast & mom
told me I didn't want to watch the news this morning, like I usually did. So
I went to school, where we did nothing all day but watch the replay over and
over and over.


Nov. 1989 - Fall of the Berlin Wall
Stuttgart, Germany. I watched it live on tv as people stood on top of the
wall and started breaking it down with sledgehammers. Truly amazing.

-Rachel




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