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#543228 - 05/04/06 06:05 PM
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My earliest memory was of my black and white shetland pony...I was three.
National event...the small town where I grew up had an old wagon (I think it was a horse drawn circus wagon) that was refurnished. The people who owned it sold fresh popped popcorn out of it. Anyway, sometimes in the evenings my dad would take my sister and I "downtown" to get popcorn. It was 1969, I was 4...I remember my dad talking about the astronauts on the way to the moon. I remember looking up in the sky hoping to catch a glimpse!!
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#543229 - 05/04/06 06:12 PM
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earliest memory: when I was still in a diaper and ran across the yard a fell (straddled  )on a Jack-in-the-Box and had to go to the hospital. earliest national event: I remember when Elvis died...I think I was about 7
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#543230 - 05/04/06 06:23 PM
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I remember Jimmy Carter giving a speech on TV, right before Reagan became President, and my Mom and Dad explaining what the President was and what he did. (I was 24....  actually I was 6)
i wasn't even born yet
Me neither.
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#543231 - 05/04/06 06:26 PM
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My earliest memory was picking potatoes with my Uma in Germany and of her bull Ronnie.
The earliest national event I remember was the space shuttle challenger. I was 8.
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#543232 - 05/04/06 06:54 PM
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I remember falling into an ice hole on the Hudson River when my father took me ice fishing at age 3. Mom had nightmares for years.
The national memory would probably be Nixon resigning. There are other memories before that, but that was the first time I was really glued to the TV realizing something big was going on.
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#543234 - 05/04/06 07:27 PM
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watching the berlin wall fall on tv and having my mom explain it to me. i was 4.
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#543236 - 05/04/06 07:38 PM
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Well, it looks like there were several of us that were 5 at the time of the JFK assassination. Add me to the list. 1958 must have been a good year for bankers.
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#543237 - 05/04/06 07:47 PM
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I remember playing in the bed of my grandpas white pick-up (I was positive I could swim in it if he would just fill it up for me). I was about 3.
I remember the Berlin Wall coming down and the "Cold War" being over...whatever that was.
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#543238 - 05/04/06 07:56 PM
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I remember when I was three, talking to my best friend (his mom and my mom grew up with each other) on his drive way - we were talking about how we were both three.
I have another memory which I assume was earlier - I was in my crib and had a nightmare about my closet. I climbed out, took a pillow and my blanket with me, and went to my parents room and slept on the floor (they didn't hear me come in, and I didn't want to wake them by jumping in bed).
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#543239 - 05/04/06 08:02 PM
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What is your earliest memory?
- My dad reading me a book about a rooster for my bedtime story. I was probably around 3 years old.
What is your earliest memory of a national or international event?
- Seeing my mom cry while we were watching JFK's funeral on TV.
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#543241 - 05/04/06 08:36 PM
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I have a lot of childhood memories. I think my 2 favorite are 1) Hunting or fishing with my dad & grandpa, and 2) riding in a fruit bin with my cousins. My grandpa would have one attached to the front of a tractor and he would put us kids in it and drive around through the orchards.
The first national memory I can really remember as being significant would probably be the space shuttle tragedy.
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#543242 - 05/04/06 08:39 PM
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Busy Bee-
I saw the shuttle explode while I was at school!! We were all very confused.
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#543244 - 05/04/06 08:53 PM
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I saw the shuttle explode while I was at school!! We were all very confused.
I was in school, too - High School - my senior year.
Great- I was a manager of a Radio Shack. I had the launch on every one of my TVs. Really horrifying. And now I feel ancient! Thanks a lot, guys!!
Suzy
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#543245 - 05/04/06 08:55 PM
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#543246 - 05/04/06 08:59 PM
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LOL - hush your mouth, you pup and help me find my cane! Suzy
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#543248 - 05/04/06 09:11 PM
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Earliest Memory - watching the workers install the side-by-side freezer in the kitchen of my parents (I have a copy of the picture my dad took - I was cute  ) Earliest National Memory: My dad telling me that voting for a president is a choice between "the lesser of two evils" and it was before "Tricky Dick"
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#543249 - 05/04/06 10:00 PM
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I remember calling my grandmother on the phone and you had to tell the operator the number.
As far as a national memory, I remember sitting in the backyard at night with my grandfather looking for "Sputnik".
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#543250 - 05/05/06 03:28 AM
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I remember being in grade school when Reagan was shot. I also remember getting up early one morning to watch Princess Diana's wedding with my grandmother.
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#543251 - 05/05/06 03:44 AM
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My earliest memory was being in the hospital about age 3 or 4, I was running with a stick and fell, it barely missed my eye.
JFK was my first national memory. I was in 4th grade. All the teachers were crying and we were sent home early, but none of us could understand why.
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#543252 - 05/05/06 02:58 PM
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My first national event that i can remember was when reagan was shot... i remember being scared... my first memory at home is my brother holding me... i remember being fascinated by him...
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