Besides 9/11, what's a major historical event you lived through that you’ll never forget where you were when it happened?

[Days of Future Piff]

I got a couple more events I remember clearly…

- James Brown’s death
- LeftEye’s death
- Janet’s wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl (I just missed the actual moment because I went to grab a soda from the cooler )
- the Anthrax scare
- Sandy Hook

What was it like for the brehs who remember when MJ was acquitted?

 

[Stick Up Kid]

Covid
Hurricane Katrina
Reagan's Attempted Assassination
Bill Clinton Scandal
Space Shuttle Disaster in 86'

 

[8WON6]

OJ trial and verdict

 

[VegetasHairline]

Covid
Hurricane Katrina
Reagan's Attempted Assassination
Bill Clinton Scandal
Space Shuttle Disaster in 86'

 

[MorePower]

Kobe.

 

[Thurgood Thurston III]

Really, why? From New York and lived through it but was too young to understand what was going on and to remember it.

I was on the train when that shyt happened. We had to walk through the tracks to get back to the platform.

Then me and my mom had to walk from Manhattan (forgot which part) all the way to Flatbush.

In retrospect, it wasn't that bad of a walk. But I was a kid and it was hot and the whole situation was kinda scary.

Once, I got on the block though, it was sort of fun seeing everyone outside.

 

[Carl Tethers]

7/7 London bombings

 

[Canada Goose]

Hurricane Sandy



I was in NYC when it hit and was on The Coli in the middle of it until my internet went out. I'll never forget NYC posters downplaying the storm saying they are gonna be playing 2K and smashing jumpoffs while the storm was going on..... then the storm was over NYC and posters was like



The winds that night were I lived in Flatbush at the time which is far inland so I didn't have to deal with flooding or anything like Far Rock and LES brehs did but it was still quite the experience.

 

[Astroslik]

Gulf War
Ryan White (Indiana teenager who had AIDS and passed)
Mike Tyson going to prison
Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill
Jordans pops/retirement
Aaliyah Passing
Derrick Thomas from the Chiefs passing away

How old are you?

 

[Μαρία]

9/11.

Bush declaring war in Afghanistan less than a month after 9/11.

At the time, I was too young to understand exactly what was going on, but I felt like the world had changed entirely after that event.

Katrina.

Obama winning the ‘08 election.

MJ passing away.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

03 blackout

 

[mykey]

-Release of Nelson Mandela and end of Apartheid
-Rwanda genocide.
-Death of Mother Teresa.
-Pac death
-Oklahoma city bombing
-OJ Simpson car chase and trial
-The disgusting George W. Bush presidency
-Hurricane Katrina
-Asian Earthquake & Tsunami
-The rise of China
-2008 economic collapse.
-Michael Jackson death

 

[focusloco]

The OJ verdict....I remember what class I was In and who my teacher was when they read the verdict...the magnitude of that moment cannot be exaggerated.

Walking through Walmart and seeing empty food aisles on EVERY aisle..not even 1 box of cereal or 1 can of soup .... people were just standing around in disbelief...COVID was some shyt we might never see again or maybe the precursor

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Sandy Hook haunts me til this day. That was when I knew american politicians did not care about american lives

 

[Actually6Foot3]

The black out in NYC wa pretty crazy.