tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post8813235147381016705..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: Moments Frozen in TimeDoughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-73348928132306873022009-07-19T10:23:45.938-05:002009-07-19T10:23:45.938-05:00Nice post, Doug. I also remember quite vividly whe...Nice post, Doug. I also remember quite vividly when the shuttle exploded. I was also in college and that particular day I didn't have class until 10. I went to the student union for breakfast and saw a huge group of people. Many were crying, and holding each other. I had no idea what happened until I looked up at a tv and saw the pictures of the accident. I grew up with the space race, the Apollo program and then the shuttle. I thought we were masters of space, but this showed just how dangerous space travel really was.<br /><br />This reminds me, tomorrow will be the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. I think it should be a national holiday.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17032477453891087135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-83730361534117475922009-07-18T23:04:44.394-05:002009-07-18T23:04:44.394-05:00I was home sick from high school on September 11, ...I was home sick from high school on September 11, and spent most of the morning laying in bed half consciously listening to the morning news show on CBS. I didn't have my glasses, so I couldn't see a blessed thing happening. But at one point I heard Bryant Gumbel say that a plane had hit the first tower. I sat up and stared at the screen from that moment on, my mother half prepared for work sitting on the bed beside me. Seeing the second plane hit is one of the seared into my brain memories, but the one that's even more embedded is the sight of that first tower collapsing. I remember Dan Rather saying "partial collapse" over and over again, and staring into the clouds of debris praying to see something left of the structure only to find nothing. Eventually I just couldn't take it anymore, and flipped away from the news. I spent a good chunk of that evening watching Blue Falcon and Dynomutt on Cartoon Network. I've never been quite so grateful for a silly Hanna Barbara cartoon in my life.<br /><br />The next day, I went back to school, and there was this tree in the front lawn of the school. I'm from Kansas, and fall really does start in September, and I'd been surprised that this tree had not lost hardly a leaf. That morning, walking past it, it was just weeping leaves onto the ground. Of all of the images I associate with that time, a simple tree letting torrents of leaves fall to the ground is one of the most evocative.<br /><br />On a brighter note, back to comics!<br /><br />I wish I could remember something about a good comic. But the truth is, I honestly don't remember a time before I knew who Spidey, the FF, Batman and Superman were. I don't have a starting point for my nasty little comics habit, it's like it's always been there.Chris PVnoreply@blogger.com