Other than 9-11 what event in history do you most remember?

SCPO David Lockwood Mine would have to be when the Challenger went down. I was a sophomore and at home because I was sick. I watched it live on TV.

The events that I remember most are the assassination of JFK, when I heard that Neil Armstrong had walked on the Moon, and the loss of Space Shuttles Columbia and Challenger.

December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor.....Feb 10 1945 Landing on Iwo Jima April 10 1945 Landing on Okinawa. August 20 1950 Marines 1st Brigade Lands in Korea. July 27 1953 End of Korean War.
02 January 1962 1st Marine Unit lands in Pleiku Vietnam... November 26 1963 Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas Texas Landing on the Moon July 10 1969. US Embassy Captives released from Tehran January 15 1981. Challenger Tragedy January 5 1986

First is the landing on the moon as I was up in Wisconsin on a family reunion that summer. Second was the start of Operation Just Cause. I was in a hotel room in Elizabethtown, KY headed home on Christmas leave from IOAC. I knew right away that my old unit from Fort Ord had deployed. A few months later, I remember when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait as I had just arrived at my duty station in Schweinfurt, Germany and knew that units from Germany would be deployed if he did not get out. However, most important for me was one week before Desert Storm actually kicked off. I received a call from my mother telling me that my son, David was born at Fort Benning.

SCPO David Lockwood The Challenger disaster. I was in Government class in HS when it happened. A lot of tears in that room that day. Pretty impressionable on a young mind.

I was stationed in Orlando when the Challenger disintegrated. A sad day for USA.

My divorce! Thank God! All joking aside but I'm not I think...LOL. The moon landing, my first solar eclipse when I was 12, the Challenger loss of precious lives.

Great question SCPO David Lockwood. I have two...

1. The Challenger Disaster. I was home from school sick and watched the launch and explosion on television. I remember calling my mom at work to tell her what happened. She yelled at me on the phone for "making up such a horrific story." A few moments she called me back...

2. The capture of Saddam Hussein. I was home on leave and I remember walking down my stairs into the kitchen when the phone rang. I picked it up and it was my brother, calling from Iraq on a sat phone, the first words out he spoke were "Dude, we got him." It wasn't his unit, but the news spread like wild fire in theater and I heard it from him before I saw it on the news.

challenger disaster.

Not in any particular order.....Munich Olympics tragedy; Iran Hostage Situation; Challenger Disaster; Fall of Berlin Wall; Tiananmen Square; Fall of Saigon. Too many more to list.....