Posted on Oct 8, 2015
SCPO David Lockwood
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I have two, Landing on the moon and the Challenger disaster. I was in at home watching it with my mom. I was in the Philippines when the Challenger disaster occurred.
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PO1 John Miller
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SCPO David Lockwood
Challenger and Reagan being shot.
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I was in school when Reagan got shot and I believe I was at home watching it live on TV when Challenger happened.
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Discovery being the first shuttle back into space after challenger, Persian Gulf War, vaguely the Berlin Wall coming down, Clinton’s impeachment, Kosovo, Olympic in Atlanta (I lived in GA) including the bombing, Oklahoma City, Katrina, Columbia disaster, oh....93(?) LA earthquake
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SPC David Willis
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Other than 9/11? Id say either the DC sniper or the statue of Sadam falling. I remember watching it on TV as the Americans and Iraqi civilians ripped it down and beat it and I think that's when I knew Id enlist. Also OJ's low speed chase.
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SPC Jennifer Clark
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Saddam’s statue coming down is another one. I was at home from work (I was either off or not working until that evening) when my sister yelled at me to wake up and look at the TV. It was turned to MSNBC (didn’t have Fox News), and it showed an Army tank in Baghdad getting ready to tear down the statue.
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SPC Jennifer Clark
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Oklahoma City bombing. I was ten. It was during Easter break from school, and I remember looking on the TV and seeing people running away from a building. I also saw people carrying kids who had cuts/gashes on their heads. That bothered me, since I’ve always loved children.

I also remember the Columbia disaster. I was eighteen. I remember being at a Wal-Mart, seeing coverage of it on a demo TV, and then hearing on one of the demo radios “Hold On My Heart” by Genesis. I now associate that song with that event.
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MCPO Roger Collins
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JFK assassination and the attack on PHTH,
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I remember the Challenger disaster. I was six years old and remember watching it live on TV.
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CWO3 Randy Weston
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Other than the birth of my kids, it was the day President Reagan was inaugurated. I was a month from transferring from my fist boat heading to precom the second Trident. I knew this President would change the military. I didn't know how, but I knew he would. He then changed it from the post Vietnam era, that saw a significant loss of military decorum and professionalism to a military that was once again honored and a significant part of our society. No more "Sailors and dogs - keep off the grass" signs. It was the turning point in my career from a "FTN" sailor to a career minded professional sailor.
The second was the tearing down of the Berlin wall and the fall of the Soviet Union. I had spent the previous 14 years engaged in combat with the Soviets in one way or another. Either by actually spying on them or supporting those that did.
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Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, President Kennedy's murder, Cuban Missile Crises, Kent State murders, Bush's Iraq fiasco and the Obama election.
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PO1 Matthew Maxon
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Challenger. I was home sick and was watching it on tv while curled up on the couch.

Elvis dying. I was at my Great Aunt's house playing a board game with some cousins when the news was shown.
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