What major historical events do you remember?
One of the first major historical events that I remember was when Ronald Reagan was shot. I was 12 at the time, and I remember that the Iran hostage crisis was ongoing at that time too. I didn’t pay much attention to the news at that age, but my dad always watched the 6:00 pm news with Walter Cronkite, so I sometimes paid attention to what was happening. I remember tuning out a lot of what was happening.
The first major historical event that really affected me as an adult was 911. I remember everything about that day, and where I was when I heard what was happening. At first I thought it was a skit being put on by Mark and Brian, the two guys I used to listen to first thing in the morning on KLOS radio station. But I soon realized that they were not joking. I was a horse trainer at the time, and I was close to the stable so I went to work anyway.
When I got to the stable everyone was watching a tv that one of the other horse trainers had. We all thought that we were going to get bombed. I ended up going back home to talk to my then husband, who was not concerned at all, and told me I’m an idiot for caring about it. Actually he was the idiot, and I divorced him a year later. But that’s beside the point.
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