Well not necessarily infamy, but three days that live with you as unbearably sad.
For me:
February 3rd 1959. The day the music died.
September 11.
May 7 1915. U 20 sinks the Lusitania without warning. 1198 dead.
September 11, 2001.
April 20, 1999 – I was a senior in high school when the Columbine massacre took place, and it really hit home with me.
March 19, 2003 – the date the Iraq war begin. Which will most likely go down as one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in US history.
Did you mean to post this 51 minutes earlier?
Sorry- is the question addressed to me? As I am several time zones away 51 minutes means nothing to me.
Sorry, I don’t mean to sound rude. It’s just that you’ve posted this the day AFTER the original “date which will live in infamy.”
Your timestamp reads 12:50am, so 51 minutes earlier would have put you on the appropriate date in “board time” (which is GMT -5).
IOW, I’m just being a smartass. Move along.
But “board time” is what YOU set it to for YOUR time zone. I’m set at CST (GMT -6), and I’m seeing the OP time as 11:50 p.m. yesterday (Dec. 7th).
So apparently, I’m an idiot. S’okay: I’m used to it.
In an effort to get this thread back on track:
[ul][li]September 11, 2001[/li]
[li]April 19, 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing. I remember it well, even though I was just a kid. I remember it as a moment of senseless mass evil. (Actually, a lot of unusual stuff seems to happen around that date.)[/li]
And of course, December 7, 1941 - The actions took place that drew the US into the most recent World War. 2,388 killed and 1,178 wounded.[/ul]
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer]
So apparently, I’m an idiot. S’okay: I’m used to it.
In an effort to get this thread back on track:
[ul][li]September 11, 2001[/li]
[li]April 19, 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing. I remember it well, even though I was just a kid. I remember it as a moment of senseless mass evil. (Actually, a lot of unusual stuff seems to happen around that date.)[/li]
[li]And of course, December 7, 1941 - The actions took place that drew the US into the most recent World War. 2,388 killed and 1,178 wounded.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
Randy Seltzer, I never meant to infer you were an idiot at all. I was confused as to the 51 minutes reference. Please accept my apologies if it appeared that way.
September 11
The day my maternal grandmother died
I cant think of a third for now ><
And also- it is almost 5 pm here on December the 8th.
January 3rd 1998 the day my wife died
9/11
7/7
9/3/2004 - Beslan massacre. I’ve long accepted the reality that human beings will kill one another en masse, civilians or not. But children, specifically children…
December 12, 2000
September 11, 2001
November 2, 2004
We can’t get through a single thread without somebody bashing Bush in a non-sequitor, can we? Sheesh.
No, Bush is what he is (with the help of a lot of really shitty people).
I’m referring to how he was enabled by SCOTUS in 2000 and a whole shitload of people who should have known better by then in 2004.
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer]
[ul][li]September [/li]
[li]April 19, 1995 - The Oklahoma City bombing. I remember it well, even though I was just a kid. I remember it as a moment of senseless mass evil. (Actually, a lot of unusual stuff seems to happen around that date.) [/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
They do, with disturbing frequency.
The siege in Waco ended on April 19, 1994.
As you said, the Oklahoma City Bombing were the same day a year later. I was 14 and at school when they announced the bombings. One of my teacher’s husbands was in Oklahoma City on business.
Columbine came four years later in 1999, just a day off. It happened on the 20th.
[ul]
[/ul] [ul]
[li]December 7, 1941- Pearl Harbor Day(the original)[/li][li]September 11, 2001-it’s what started all this mess, gave them the excuse(if they needed one) to go to war[/li][/ul]
November 24, 1991-Death of Freddie Mercury.
In my lifetime:
January 28, 1986. The explosion of the Challenger. My elementary school teacher stopped class and we watched the news casts. I’ll remember that the rest of my life.
9/11 - I was in my office working on an air quality model, when I started to notice that the rest of the building had become silent. I just knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know why. I stepped out of the office to see what had happened. I had no idea. You know the rest.
3/27/2007 - Personal. On my way to my grandmother’s funeral I was in a bad car wreck that flipped my truck over three times on I-95 at 75 mph. Miraculously, I was uninjured. I never made it to the Funeral. One life taken, one life saved.
December 6, 1989 - the École Polytechnique Massacre.
The usual-- November 23, 1963 (Kennedy’s assassination) September 11, and July 31, 2007, my wife’s death.