Yep! When everything was going to collapse! Seems so silly now.

@BeeHappy Part of the reason nothing happened was a huge effort to stop it from happening. (I can still remember going to Skippers, of all places, and the receipt said 1994 instead of 2000. They just rolled the year back on the computers to be safe, lol.)

My dad took Polaroids of the tv screen.

That would have been maybe the 2nd or 3rd event for me. But I was glued to the tv.

That seems to be the most memorable one.

I only remember the drills at school.

@BeeHappy I was an Air Force brat and I remember those drills as well in school. My parents were very politically active and started talking to my sister and I at a young age about communism and politics in general. I believe it is why I have always paid attention to what politicians are doing and saying. The Cuban missile crisis was a big topic of conversation with all the adults around me, and I remember being really frightened about it.

@Redheadedgammy I don't remember my parents talking about it. Maybe they were sheltering us. I have to talk to my older sister, she will remember.

You started young!

@BeeHappy I remember sitting on the floor in our house in Goulburn, enjoying the destruction without any understanding of the wider context via a black and white TV. The next was the Viking missions to Mars - I was fascinated by those grainy shots of the surface of another planet, and the Voyager fly byes of Jupiter and Saturn.
Once a geek, always a geek.

@MrBeelzeebubbles I enjoyed watching all the space related events, also on a b & w tv. Lol

Yes, that was huge!

@BeeHappy I had no idea. being about 5 years old I thought it was normal to sit and wait for a rocket to go off for hours

@btroje But I loved it.

@btroje I remember the tension of the countdowns. Hoping it wouldn’t explode!

Yes, that would have been a big one!

@BeeHappy I remember we all sat round a black and white tv and the parents and grand parents told me about him.

Yep, that had to be unsettling for someone so young.

Yes, I was excited about that. ?

Yes, I think it was one of the first times there was so much tv coverage. It seems that's all that was on and personally I don't remember there being anything like that prior. (Of course I was young so I suppose there could have been.)

Our memories vary wildly from person to person. My older sister by 8 years remembers so much from a very young age and in detail. My next sister by 5 yrs, remembers little and often different from everyone else. For me certain things stand out but many things don't. Go figure.

@BeeHappy that is why identical twins aren't.

You're right... every night for years!

What I remember about the election was the controversy over him being a Catholic.

@BeeHappy ditto. . . . and could not understand it because I had not been exposed to religious prejudice.

Our memory is a funny thing. My younger sister and I are only 13 months apart. We were like twins. Went everywhere and did everything together. But we both have different memories on several events that happened in our lives.

Rudy? ? Really? ?

The start or you mean it is now over?

Thanks!

We each remember things differently. For me it's the Cuban missile crisis... don't remember anything but the bomb drills in school.

Wow! I'd say that was quite significant.

@BeeHappy I was a child, but i remember the news and my parents' shock

@BeeHappy soon after the attack, the Japanese invaded Attu in the Aleutian Islands. My mother took instruction on spotting Japanese planes (we were in Oregon)

@TheDoubter I remember hearing about that... much later of course.

All of those murders in the 1960's bothered me.

Yes, it seemed every time we turned around there was another assassination in the 60's.

@BeeHappy So true. I recall the mourners on TV. King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, stood out. I’m not racist and never have been; it’s just not in me. I was bewildered by the violence, the attitudes, and later, the riots in Charlotte over busing to integrate the schools. Ours were desegregated in 1971-5th grade for me.

I didn't either but there were a few things that seemed unavoidable.