Karl Townsend wrote:
Couple of moments are burned in my brain like it happend a minute
ago...

I was serving detention with only Miss Douglas and myself in the 4rth
grade classroom when I learned JFK was dead. I was doodling on an
Indian chief tablet.

Ten years ago today, I was picking Wealthy apples with my honey.
Second tree from the end of row 225. We were talking about the bad
accident in New York when we learned the second plane hit. My picking
bag was half full and I was reaching up for a couple more apples. My
honey was walking back toward the tractor.

I do also remember the first step on the moon. But not in the same
vivid like it just happend a second ago detail. of course, we were all
a bit more prepared for this.

Karl



I wasn't born when JFK got shot by about a year but I can remember
11/09/2001, it was my 2nd day at a new job, late morning UK time, when
one of my work colleagues shouted something like "Holy ****!" having
seen the first attack on the internet and then it went down due to the
overload of people trying to get information. The son of a guy I used to
know was helped out of a tower with a mate, by a fireman, and saw that
fireman killed in front of them by a falling body, not nice, but
apparently the company that employed them quickly provided counselling
to help them cope.

As a side question what is the background to the US date system of
month/day/year as it seems nonsensical to me, I lived with it for 12
years when in the US, but ascending or descending precedence make
sense but mixed precedence seems bizarre.