KirstenL4W

I feel old. I was…

• 27 years old at the time of the 9-11 attack on America. It was scary day, I won’t ever forget it
• 25 years old on the first day of Y2K and very hung over.
• 23 years old when Princess Diana was killed in a car crash. I cried when I saw the princes walking behind the casket
• 20 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing. I felt sick to my stomach when I heard that there was a daycare that was directly hit
• 20 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder. What a circus that was!
• 18 years old at the time of the 93 bombing of the World Trade Center. I woke my mom up from a nap to tell her.
• 16 years old when Operation Desert Storm began. I was hoping to be the first generation that had never seen our country at war. I cried because I wasn’t.
• 15 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall. There were some German exchange students in my school. What an experience that was for them, being in America when history was being written at home.
• 11 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. I was in 6th grade. I remember this day vividly, because my 5th grade teacher applied for it.
• 9 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh. I don’t remember the actual release of this, but I do remember using the Apple IIE in elementary school.
• 9 years old during Sally Ride’s travel in space. This was so not a big deal to me. I don’t even remember it.
• 6 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. I didn’t even know about this until nearly 20 years later when I read an article in Reader’s Digest.
• 5 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began. I remember being in 1st grade watching the hostages being released on TV. I had no idea what the significance was at the time.
• 2 years old on the U.S.’s bicentennial Fourth of July. My aunt still has some of that bicentennial eagle, flag, 1776/1976 decor in her house. She’s working on it, though.
• not yet 1 year old when President Nixon left office. All I get out of this is to tell people that I was born during the tail end of the Nixon administration. Doesn’t work, though - they still think I was born during the Reagan era.

Did I mention that I am getting new gray hairs daily? I may need to rethink this natural redhead thing.

Quiz found here.

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