This always brings tears to my eyes and I wish I’d been there in person to see and hear it. This year especially.
What about you?
On the exact opposite side of the spectrum from the OP, I’ve always liked fireworks and would loved a chance to see the biggest one of them all (from a safe distance of course).
Deiclaimer: yes I realize that this was bad and I’m glad we don’t do this kind of thing anymore, but that doesn’t stop me from thinking it would be totally literally awesome to experience first hand.
Oh My!
I always sort of yearn to be in the middle of a hurricane when I watch all the coverage of them.
It’s a strange feeling.
…and thousands of similar on youtube.
I will forever be in awe of the Apollo 11 mission. There is endless discussion and footage available online, which is nice. I would have loved to have witnessed the launch in person and sat glued to the TV for updates as they proceeded through their entire mission to a safe splashdown - but alas, I was not to be born for another year or so.
I could easily come up with a couple hundred bands I would have liked to see live.
I was fourteen that night when Armstrong stepped out onto the surface of the moon. I was so keyed up my brain would not let me see what the TV was showing. It was all gray, black and white blotches. Of course I saw the same film again an coule “see” it, but not that first one. I did walk outside, it was clear here, and saw the moon and realized “There’s people up there.”
I was at church camp, way up north with no city lights around. All the campers gathered in the mess hall around a portable B&W TV. But I, too, took a walk. Stared at the milky way and waved at the moon… “Hi, guys!”