[Nebr FAL owner]

You are right about it being one of the first events to sear itself into our memories(I turned 40 last Sept.) I was lucky my folks got me out of bed as a small child to watch "moonwalks" & "splashdowns" of the Apollo space flights . I remember hearing the announcement that Pres. Reagan had been shot , I remember watching on CNN elements of the 10th panzer division out of Stutgart Germany rolling down the main drag in Paris France on Bastille Day at the invitation of the French ,the fall of the Berlin Wall ,the striking of the blood red communist banner from over the Kremlin to be replaced by a red,white & blue flag.God I feel positively ANCIENT.

[DouglasKC]

I was lucky my folks got me out of bed as a small child to watch "moonwalks" & "splashdowns" of the Apollo space flights

I don't have much of a memory of these although I was 8 years old. I think they didn't stick because they weren't unexpected traumatic events. I do remember watching the news about Reagan getting shot though.