How old are you?
I am 30
shareWhy you’d want to know this I don’t know but if you must know I’m 41.
shareI'm curious the demographics that post on message boards. It doesn't seem like something 14 year olds would do but I might be wrong. Curiosity
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I was almost 14
shareI found the thread thanks
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It was very weird being in school that day. Most classes we just watched it play out on TV.
shareI remember it was Tuesday
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"Like you, I was in school that day, in 2nd grade not understanding what I saw before me on TV. Confusion soon followed as everyone looked distraught and unusually sad, very unnerving seeing adults that way being young. I soon felt shock once I realized what happened. Suddenly, I realized how cruel the world could be."
I was in my late 40s. I'd worked a night shift. When I got up, I saw my husband watching something on TV. A plane was crashing into a tall building. Then there was footage of people running fast and crazy from all of this dust and debris.
To me, it looked like a very realistic news cast, but I figured it had to be some movie until my husband looked at me.
I , and many others had the same childhood experience on 11/22/63 when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was in the first grade and our teacher came in crying after lunch. Seeing a grownup so distraught was frightening and surreal. Especially your teacher. That was the day....and the days that followed, when I learned how cruel and ugly things could get. We had yet to see the man accused of killing the president shot On live TV.
That was a major wake-up call for me, MissMargo and yes " surreal " describes it, trying to process those events playing out on television at such a young age.
shareIt was the strangest few days of our lives, wasn't it? We'd never had 24 hour TV programing before, and it was all news and updates, but what was really weird was that there were no commercials! That was unheard of back then. Even at that young age though, the TV was kept on and we just couldn't look away for very long.
shareA visibly distraught Walter Cronkite is an image indelibly etched in my memory.
shareYou can see all of that on YouTube these days, and yet, you can still remember your first impressions the first time you saw it.
Walter Cronkite was that dignified man on the evening news. Suddenly seeing him in shirtsleeves and being vulnerable was so unnerving!