Have you ever been there when it became a part of history?

Question

I took my son to the first Space Shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force base, California. I took him out of school for the event. My dad worked on the space shuttle. We bought him a baseball cap and rush to Rockeydyne to give it to him before work ended that day. It was a very cool event that neither my son or myself will EVER forget!

Answer 1

I saw JFK in person twice. In the summer of 1960, I visited DC and saw him walk through the Senate. He was elected President 3 months later.

Three years later, I skipped school and went to see the President Kennedy motorcade in Dallas on 11-22-63. He was in a convertible limo, with Jackie next to him, and the governor of Texas and his wife in the car. The motorcade went by where we were standing, the the cop cars and press buses followed.

When I got back to my car about 3 minutes later, we heard on the radio that JFK had been shot, and was on the way to Parkland hospital. The truth was, he was already dead.

I was only a few blocks from the Schoolbook Depository, and I followed this story very closely for a long time. I truly believe Oswald was acting alone.

Answer 2

I have been part of the crowd in front page pictures
60s, 70s and 80s
And for the Force 5 Hurricane David back in late 70s or early 80s (how's that for a memory?) in Florida, I myself was the front page picture in a lot of newspapers the morning after the Hurricane passed through Florida.
I had gone down to the cove with friends to check on my boat and saw a friend's boat drifting for the rocks so I tore off my clothes and dove into 8 foot plus high waves and swam to the friend's boat. I secured a rope to my waist and dove back in and swam for the opposite shore where all of us pulled the boat further in the water then secured the rope to a tree, thus saving an expensive boat.
One of the women that was with us was a newspaper reporter and took great pictures.
The famous picture has me with just my midsection in the crest of a wave with a leg wrapped around the rope sticking out the rear of the wave and my upper torso emerging from the front of the wave with my long hair whipping in the wind behind me.
I knew I could do it for I have swam before I could walk but the other people with me were not even swimmers so the writing of the story was a bit exaggerated to sell newspapers, but the pictures were real and I still have copies, and that main artistic one is even framed!

Answer 3

I am really ashamed to tell this!

Yes,it was the most tragic events in the history of India or even the world.Jesus was crucified in distant Palestie in a corner of the world and it was an even of universal importnce.

No. I am not one of the Palestines helplessly watching the event. Nor was I among the group of the usurers who were crying for His blood.

But the assasnation(even Christ's was an assasination but covered in the garb of crucifixation for some violation. Each hanging even before Him and after Him is also an assasination)

The man for whose assasination I was a helpless witness was described by the Archbishop of Canterbury as ;Tthe Living Christ' of the time He was Mahatma Gandhi.

Yes, I was there when on 30th January 1948 at Birla Mandir,Delhi when the bullets of a mad assasin entered the bare breasts of Mahatmajee.I was way behind in the crowd,an undergraduate kid on a visit to Delhi I watched helplessly.I have told myself time and again I could not have foreseen(Nobody did)the event nor from where I was could stop the assasin but my mind always blames me that I failed It will go down with me or perhaps it will pursue me in my next birth(We believe in incarnation

I am telling this not for being selected for the honour of the Best Answer but rather for the reader throw a stone to hit me for my inaction.Perhaps a little pain that it will give may divert my attention from the guilt I am carrying..

Answer 4

Answering the initial question , probably , yet with funds the way they are , no longer for a lengthy time period yet , i'm extremely content textile to sit decrease back and watch eire further improve all Island monetary ties , to the point the position the border is virtually meaningless besides..... to boot if it occurs , that's going to take position by ability of vote , that is no longer an IRA victory , that would want to be what the individuals choose. The UVF bombed Dublin and Monaghan interior the 1970's , similar BS different aspects , blah.

Answer 5

1970 The year Hurricane Celia hit the southern Texas coastal city of Corpus Christi,Texas.My home town.The wind gouge blew away from the airport clocking winds of 200 mph. It totally leveled our town. We had no Electric service for 7 weeks.No water,no ice,No homes or shelters.No astro Dome to go to.It was rough. And,August 2nd high temps in the 99 to102 everday for weeks.We did over come and with out all the goverment hand outs, We rebuilt our beautiful city and life went on.Never under estimate a Texan. We don't whine we get to work.

Answer 6

I only came close. I was in Palmdale (Edwards Air Force Base) working on the car lot when the building shook and EVERY one ran out. The space shuttle was piggy back on the plane and going over---it was REAL close---what a sight!!!

Answer 7

I was on the beach the first time the Shuttle landed on it's own in Florida. They flew as close to the water as possible before touching town and everybody on the beach waved to them. Really cool.

Answer 8

sure was, it was in 1974 and me and my first wife had been to Xenia,Ohio to get her son a drivers license.when within a few short minutes the supper tornado out break hit their.our car flew in the air and we both ran and got under a piano that had been flung in the yard.what a afternoon i will never forget,we lost 2 uncles in the after math,and many other friends hurt and their places totally destroyed.i was on the news that night all cut up talking about how we survived.it was something i will never forget.i lived in Dayton at the time and was trying to get home.it took me 3 days to go 20 miles because of all the destruction i helped with the search and rescue detail.

Answer 9

I was at the first night launch of a space shuttle I believe back in the late 70s. We pulled along side the road near Cape Canevral to watch it sitting on the hood of our car. When the launch finally took off, we could see thousands of cars lined in every direction to watch the same thing. It was spectacular.

Answer 10

I saw Little Stevie Wonder in person when he WAS "LITTLE" Stevie Wonder.

I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan.

I was in Viet Nam.

I was in Cambridge, Maryland when Malcom X and his cronies set fire to part of the city (He said, "...burn this city down!"). I was picking my girlfriend up from work.

I was part of the winter over crew at McMurdo Station, Antarctica that bulit an ICE CUBE. Big deal? Ours was so big, it wound up sitting on the bottom of the harbor. It was, (and IS still there) used as a PIER for the ships to tie up when supplies were brought in the spring/summer. The ships were tearing up the pilings, which were difficult to replace.

I was on a ship (USS LaSalle AF-3, the Flag Ship for the Middle East Forces) when we pulled in to Bandar Abbas, Iran and evacuated foreign nationals due to deteriorating conditions at that time. A few months later, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was taken over.
I left the middle east on the day the U.S. embassy in Tehran was taken over. I was waiting for a flight out of Manama, Bahrain right in the middle of Hajj...left at 4 a.m, November 4, 1979. We heard about it when we landed in London. One of my shipmates was supposed to leave in December and was held back until January.
I am reading WHIRLWIND, a story about the Persian gulf in the late 1970's...and so much I remember... even though a lot of the book is fiction... based on the history of that time.

I was on the USS L.Y. Spear AS-36, the first U.S. Navy ship that had women on board who took part in the Crossing the Equator ceremony (114 women, I believe), and each and everyone went through the 'SHELLBACK' initiation (about 40 men refused). I believe I was the one who escorted the first ENLISTED female 'pollywog' through the initiation (sorry Mary Ellen, you were behind us)...a female naval officer was the first female, so I'm told. We were on our way from Norfolk, Va to Diego Garcia, BIOT to repair ships in the area.

I remember a segment of Little House on the Prarie when the teacher was teaching out of a history book about a certain battle during the Civil War. After the teacher finished the story, an older man who had come to school to learn his 3 R's raised his hand. He said, "That ain't the way it happened, Miss." And the teacher asked, "And just how do YOU know?" The old man said, " "Cause, Miss, I WAS THERE."