[1Old Pro]

Up to that date, I always wondered what kind of event would leave that kind of impression. After that date, I knew.

Yep, working for a Investment firm at the time, it came across the "ticker tape" machine, like an AP or Dow Jones news feed. The most traumatic "remember where I was" event, especially as a New Yorker was no doubt the 9/11 WTC attack.

[headsonpikes]

I, too, worked as a stock-broker at that time, in Vancouver, B.C.

What I recall was the savage jest from the New York floor traders, “What does NASA stand for? - Need Another Seven Astronauts.”

That was within minutes. The sheer callousness stuck in my mind forever.