by Blueblades 38 Replies latest jw friends
When I was a kid there was an electric plug next to my bed that had the front plate missing. All of the electrical stuff was exposed. One night I was suddenly awoken with a shock because my big toe had gotten caught up in the electronics!
That was a very rude awakening!!!
John Lennon. I mean you expect people to shoot presidents, but not Beatles who write songs like All You Need is Love, Imagine and Give Peace a Chance. Hurrican Katrina was a huge piece of news. I mean beloved NOLA being destroyed nearly? Big, sad news.
Tsunami
Chernobyl
Challenger
9/11 left me gobbsmacked when I first heard it (and gave me a new focus for paranoia), but what left me with a deeply etched impression of the savageness some people are capable of was what happened in Gr.12 at my catholic highschool. A genuinely nice classmate was raped inside the school's bathroom by a brute in Gr.10. It crushed her. It made the rest of us sick just realizing that such a cold pervert was once among us and very sad to see the emotional pain she was in. Made us really want for castration to be legalized.
My parents and grandparents always talked about knowing the very second they heard about JFK dying. That they could even remember what they were wearing. I always thought that was strange and almost didn't believe them. Until the two most shocking pieces of news I remember getting. The first was, (don't laugh!), when Princess Diana died. I remember it was Labor Day weekend and I was wearing my Garfield pajamas, late at night at my ex-in-laws home. The second was 9/11. I was home sick and Neil called me and woke me up to tell me a little plane had just flown into the first tower. I was wearing my purple plaid pajamas. I turned the tele on in time to see the second plane crash. I was devastated and terrified that day. Not just a candle in the wind, but thousands of candles in the wind.
1963 The assassination of President Kennedy, being a 12 year old I can remember the day my 6th grade teacher turned on the TV in our classroom and he cried as we watched the news. School let out early that day but no one was happy about why, I remember walking home sullen and feeling like this must be the start of Armageddon or something.
1965 Watching the Watts riots on TV, for five days it went on in the Watts section of Los Angeles. The riots caused 34 deaths and injuries to 1,000 people. Over 4,000 individuals were arrested. Property damage was estimated at $40 million. The riots in Watts were the most severe of a series of riots that took place in many American cities in the mid-1960s. I lived just 30 miles east of LA at the time it was one of the most awful things I saw and the rebuilding of that area took years.
1969 Woodstock Music and Art Festival was held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, near Woodstock. Although 10,000 or 20,000 people were expected, over 400,000 attended. Among the many artists who performed were Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Crocker, The Who and the Grateful Dead. The weekend was rainy, the facilities were overcrowded, and attendees shared food, alcohol, and drugs, although no violence was reported. The Woodstock Festival represented the culmination of the counterculture of the 1960's and the high point of the "hippie era." Shocking I tell ya shocking! Drugs, sex and rock-n-roll!
Men walking on the moon July of 1969, I was an impressionable 17 year old. I still can't believe it when I see those pictures. August 19, 1970 learning my brother had been killed in Viet Nam. That's something you never get over I'll always remember that day, where I was, what I was doing, what I was wearing and it was the first time I ever saw my parents fall apart and cry uncontrollably.
1974 When Nixon resigned as President while the House of Representatives was poised to vote on the articles of impeachment against him.
Watching the space shuttle Challenger explode shortly after takeoff on 28 January 1986, killing all seven astronauts aboard. I'll never forget what I was doing at the time, sitting on my sofa in front of the TV folding laundry feeling relaxed as all the kiddos were off to school that morning. What a sad day.
The fall of 1989 when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, that was a shocker to me I thought I would never see that day.
1992 The shock of being awaken at 5 am by a 7.4 earthquake just 6 miles from my house. Yes a real shocker!
1995 O.J. Simpson, was found "not-guilty" of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. The trial was a sham! I was totally shocked at his verdict.
2000 I guess my next biggest shock was when I realized the truth about the troff™ and thus began my exit and my freedom from the B'org.
9-11-01 That to date was the most horrible experience I've ever witnessed seeing the Twin Towers hit by the planes, the horror is something I will never forget.
April 19, 1995... The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. After I finished my chores that morning, I called my mother just to check in, and she asked if I'd heard about it - she didn't realize that was the building my wife's sister worked in, and where her 18 month old son was in day care. I can say without a doubt that was the most shocking news ever for me. I went directly to my in-laws house, where it was an eternity 'til about 2 pm when we found out for sure my sister-in-law was ok. It was an even longer eternity (4 days) 'til we found out for sure that my nephew had been killed.
And oh yeah, I can remember every detail of that day more clearly than today.
9/11 was a huge shock also. I know most everyone was effected that day, but I think those of us that were in some way connected with the Murrah bombing relived another awful day along with the one that was happening...
On the other hand, I'd have to say I was shocked when we were in for the first ultrasound of my wife's last pregnancy. The tech was showing us a baby on the screen - see the head... here's a heartbeat, a hand, another hand, a foot, another foot..... then she moved over a bit and said - And here's another head... Yeah, that was a shock alright, but a good one.
CB
Prophecur,
You read my mind September 11 2001 watching the news and seeing that second plane hit the building. I think it was the hardest day I ever lived through.
