[wardaddy]

BTW....I don't know about the rest of ya'll but the morning of September 11th, 2001 and watching those buildings collapse eclipses all other pivotal national events for me by a long shot and I was already 43 at the time.

Kennedy, Watergate, 72 Olympics, Hurricane Camille, Iran hostages, Reagan being shot...etc are all footnotes to the big one so far.

[Conservababe]

I remember ironing clothes without a steam iron. Yep, my Mom used to sprinkle the dry clothes with water from a coke bottle. You could buy those tops that fit on the bottle especially for sprinkling clothes. Then she would put them in a bag in the refrigerator until I could iron them. Sometimes we had more clothes than food in the frige. LOL

[Dog Gone]

BTW....I don't know about the rest of ya'll but the morning of September 11th, 2001 and watching those buildings collapse eclipses all other pivotal national events for me by a long shot and I was already 43 at the time.

I think that is probably true for all of us. Maybe if Pearl Harbor had been televised live we could have a comparison.

I do vividly remember watching live television on our black and white TV with my father in his study one Sunday morning in 1963. Lee Oswald was shot on live television right in front of me, and I'd never seen a person die (for real) in my whole life.

Obviously, that doesn't compare to what happened on 9/11 but it had a profound impact on me.