What History Have You Witnessed

[diaglo]

Sept 11, 2001 --- Was standing watch at the NSA HQ on Ft. Meade during the attack on the WTC & Pentagon. Was a member of the skeleton crew that stayed behind and kept the op center running when the building was evacuated.

they evacuated CDC too.

 

[Zander]

Sept 1990 - April 1991 --- Participated in Operation Desert Shield/Storm.

I had a friend who served as a weapons systems officer during Desert Storm. He made several bombing runs over Iraq. He was once told by a superior officer how many people he had probably killed and he said that he had been badly shaken by that.

I have another friend (who happens to be a gamer) who is training as a US army engineer at the moment. He may be sent to Iraq when his training is done.

I have to say that I have a great deal of respect for my friends, for Krieg and all the other guys in the armed forces who find themselves in harm's way.

 

[twofalls]

I have to say that I have a great deal of respect for my friends, for Krieg and all the other guys in the armed forces who find themselves in harm's way.

I'll second that. I rarely agree with the politics behind our government’s troop deployments to combat theaters, but I appreciate, respect, and admire our troops that respond to those orders.

When I was in the 5th grade Mount St. Helens blew its beak in my backyard. I remember watching the plume that would eventually encircle the earth from my schoolyard. Later that day ash rained down all over the city. I still have a bottle of it stashed away in storage along with the front pages of the evening newspaper. Old Harry Truman lost his lodge and his life that afternoon.

I've seen some famous people, shared words with a few, but I don't consider that to be history.

For a bit of local history, I witnessed a tree planted in my old neighborhood where my parents still live 32 years ago by a neighbor. The tree celebrated the birth of my little sister. Though those neighbors have long since passed away each successive owner of the house has been told the importance of that tree and no one has ever considered cutting it down afterwards.

 

[Mercule]

I have to say that I have a great deal of respect for my friends, for Krieg and all the other guys in the armed forces who find themselves in harm's way.

Agreed. I sometimes don't say anything because it's "fashionable" and almost seems too casually done, right now, but I have nothing but respect for the US armed forces and the people who serve in them.

 

[Ferret]

My dad knows two people from his work who met up on holiday, (one made a world wide one, the other was just on holiday) and they met up in taiwan. They had planned to go to the beach (close island) on the 26th of december 2005. They had an argument and didn't go, they would have been in the tsunami if they had.

Thats about as historical as I get.

 

[Brain]

i was present for his first game of that streak.

Cool. Wonder twin powers activate!

 

[The Shaman]

I was present in Los Angeles for the riots following the Rodney King verdict, esconced in a bell tower with a radio and a pair of binoculars, spotting fires for the Fire Department in the city where I worked.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

9-11

I drove to work without the radio on for a change that day and hadn't had cable news on the television that morning.

I got to work and the publications department where I work was empty, very strange since I'm one of the last ones in usually. I wandered about and noticed a large crowd of my coworkers standing in the rear breakroom watching the television and some of them were crying and every one look upset.

"what is going on?" I asked

"A plane has hit the World Trade center in New York" said my supervisor

"that is horrible do they know what caused it yet ?"

"No and another plane hit the pentagon"

So instantly like many other people i thought, we are under attack.

If i had worked somehwere else my story would have sounded like millions of other americans that day but as we stood there watching the second plane strike the towers, calls were coming into our compnay from different military services to get our robot search and recovery teams to DC and New York. I myself am a concept artist but it is also my job to process visual data for the company I work for and I got to see things i'd rather have never seen in the weeks that followed.

I was off work that day and didn't wake up until right before 10AM. Turned on the radio, which still had the morning idiots on, and they were commenting about it. At first, half asleep and hearing the moring jerks, I thought it was a huge joke. At least until I turned on the TV and went "Oh, [bleep], it's NOT a joke...." and watched most of the day.... then I wished it WAS a joke.

 

[DaveStebbins]

i was living in Turkey when the first man, Neil Armstrong, walked on the moon.

I remember watching it on TV and being blown away by it. I have thought back to it often to recapture the feeling of pure awe and wonder.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I remember watching it on TV and being blown away by it. I have thought back to it often to recapture the feeling of pure awe and wonder.

Back when space travel was exciting rather than just a mere blurb on the evening news.