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i remember the day john hinkley attempted to assasinate ronald reagan and failed.. I was in the 5th grade.. the teachers told us the president may be dead and we all stood and waited in suspense! Amazes me when someone being dogged by the masses wants to dog someone else. It's as if they will feel better if they are at least "better than" that person. We all the same stop with the greater than, less than mentality. - TheC | |
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I was in the third grade and i remember everyone having on the TV's in the classrooms watching the shuttle take off.. I remember walking through the hall on the way back from the little girls room, hearing dead silence and walking past every classroom and seeing everyone's faces being very still and frozen. I didn't know what had happened, but when i got back, i vaguely remember seeing the streaks in the sky from the explosion.. That image will taint my mind forever! 
I was in florida and i think i was a senior in high-school when this happened. I was on vacation for easter break and heard the news come through a program i was watching. I was a pretty big Nirvana fan at the time and thought how sad... but i knew he had issues and kind of knew deep down, it was bound to happen. 
I was in college on my way home from school, and i remember they said around 2ish the veridct would be read. I had another class at 2, but decided to come home to hear the outcome. [This message was edited Wed Jun 16 5:36:31 2004 by BabyCakes] The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin
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Elvis was the first celebrity that I really remember dying. I was around six.
John Lennon- I remember my mom telling me (I was in about 3rd grade). I didn't know who he was until she told me all the songs of his I liked. Marvin Gaye- My parents listened to a lot of Motown, so I was actually stunned by his death. Sam Kinnison- I was driving home late one night from my then-girlfriends, when the DJ on 101 in Houston came on with the news. The DJ was actually good friends with Sam, so he received word within about an hour of it actually happening. That truly shocked me. Freddie Mercury- I had just become a big fan of Queen, so I was quite sad when he died. One of the greatest frontmen in Rock & Roll, and possibly the best voice of any Rock singer. Kurt Cobain- I wasn't at all surprised, since he had tried to kill himself twice before (that, and the fact that he wrote a song called "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die") Tupac/ Biggie- again, wasn't shocked at all. They lived their music a little too much, and it caught up with them. Truly sad. Chris Farley- Really shocked me. I was so sad when he died. Phil Hartman- Also a huge shocker. I really loved his comedy, and the manner of his death was so distressing. I was at work, when news of his death came over the radio. Michael Jackson's career- I think it was when he did the "HIStory" album. Truly a sad day. ----- [This message was edited Wed Jun 16 6:48:38 2004 by JediMaster] 
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JediMaster said: Elvis was the first celebrity that I really remember dying. I was around six.
John Lennon- I remember my mom telling me (I was in about 3rd grade). I didn't know who he was until she told me all the songs of his I liked. Marvin Gaye- My parents listened to a lot of Motown, so I was actually stunned by his death. Sam Kinnison- I was driving home late one night from my then-girlfriends, when the DJ on 101 in Houston came on with the news. The DJ was actually good friends with Sam, so he received word within about an hour of it actually happening. That truly shocked me. Freddie Mercury- I had just become a big fan of Queen, so I was quite sad when he died. One of the greatest frontmen in Rock & Roll, and possibly the best voice of any Rock singer. Kurt Cobain- I wasn't at all surprised, since he had tried to kill himself twice before (that, and the fact that he wrote a song called "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die") Tupac/ Biggie- again, wasn't shocked at all. They lived their music a little too much, and it caught up with them. Truly sad. Chris Farley- Really shocked me. I was so sad when he died. Phil Hartman- Also a huge shocker. I really loved his comedy, and the manner of his death was so distressing. I was at work, when news of his death came over the radio. Michael Jackson's career- I think it was when he did the "HIStory" album. Truly a sad day. ----- [This message was edited Wed Jun 16 6:48:38 2004 by JediMaster] Are you obsessed with death?  | |
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PEJ said: bananacologne said: Via an upsetting late-nite phone call from my Uncle Seamus.
 Freddy was indeed one of a kind!  I remember when he passed! R.I.P  Farookh Bulsara.... One of our own. Was in high school at the time
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Poor Freddie . His spirit is still around though. | |
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savoirfaire said: Princess Diana....
I remember her death well, because I was in the old Holy River chatroom, and buzz started circulating about she got into a car accident. All I thought was "Damn! Now all the tv networks are going to be airing breaking news over all the shows I like." I had a TV on behind me and sure enough, about 30 minutes after the buzz at the holy river, all the networks started speculating and mourning and replaying the same footage a million times. i remember where i was too.... i was at my favorite gay bar and i was outside cooling off and having a smoke with one of my friends...when all of a sudden one of the queens came out crying and saying "princess diana is dead, princess diana is dead..." i'll never forget the look on his face...it was very sad.  you're only as old as you feel..............so how old do i feel 
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senik said: PEJ said: Freddy was indeed one of a kind! I remember when he passed! R.I.P Farookh Bulsara.... One of our own. Was in high school at the time
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Elvis -I was born a couple weeks after he died
Lennon-I was very young but I remember my parents being upset and not really understanding why until a few yeas later Princess Diana-died on my birthday so I remember that like it was yesterday. She was someone I always looked up to. I was celebrating my b-day with some of my gay friends at a local gay club and they had it all over the screens in the bar and there were so many people crying. I was sad for a long time after she died. It was a real shock. Mother Theresa I was at my friends house watching tv when the new came that she had passed. September 11th-I was working for a hotel at the time and I remember waking up that morning and turning on the news and seeing the crashes on the news...later at work the radio was playing over the lobby speakers and I was preparing for people that were being bussed in from the airport as all flights were canceled leaving the country. | |
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PurpleThunder said: September 11th-I was working for a hotel at the time and I remember waking up that morning and turning on the news and seeing the crashes on the news...later at work the radio was playing over the lobby speakers and I was preparing for people that were being bussed in from the airport as all flights were canceled leaving the country.
I was in bed yet when the phone rang that morning. It was my wife calling from work. She told me to turn on the TV immediately. All targets had already been hit by that time, but a little while later I saw both towers go down. I got to work (at that time it was IBM) and they had a TV in the breakroom showing the events, and some of the Somali people there were chatting and smiling with each other. I wanted to go over there and kick the shit out of them, but I'm sure I would have been fired if I did so.  NCC2012... your local Trekkie. =/\=
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Lennon - I was in the car on the way home from school when the news came on the radio. My mum turned it up and was yelling "Shhhh!!!" at us in the back seat and we were like "what???"
Elvis - English friends of the family were visiting Sweden at the time the news broke and asked my parents why is there a story about his dog on the cover of every newspaper (Elvis Dog = Elvis Died in Swedish). Princess Diana - we had just got into the car after looking at a house that was for sale. We had been joking about how it was so fancy Lady Di could've lived there, and then we heard on the news she was dead. My sister and I cried a bit, we felt bad. | |
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tupac: i was in times sqaure in new york and i read the announcement on the electronic board
diana: at home.....friend calls telling me to put on the tv..i ask whish channel....he says ANY...thought we must be at war or something. turn on tv to watch the announcements with my flatmate running around the house shouting "she's been murderd" VERY surreal. 
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I was in my next door neigborhoods basement playing..... but I really didn't care much. No elvis music was ever played in my parents house.
Don't remember when lennon was killed. I actually remember when Henry Fond died and I remember crying...why I have no idea...lol. I was completely shocked when tupac died. Tupac is over- rated as a rapper and under-rated as a poet. Aaliyah's death had some weird effect on me. | |
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PEJ said: senik said: Farookh Bulsara.... One of our own. Was in high school at the time
And to think it was a rumor. So he really was Iranian! Connected that way..... He was a Gujarati Parsi born in Zanzibar. The Parsi people originally come to the shores of Gujarat and Maharashtra in Western India circa 7th Century from Zoroastrian Iran. So now you know what I mean when I say Farookh Bulsara.... One of our own. .....
It's like you said bruva Pej..... WE BE FAMILY! 
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