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Do you have memories where you knew you were, "In a moment"?

I remember watching Peyton Place in the sixties in black and white on a rabbit ears tv. I knew even when The Beatles were still putting out albums that they were not just another group. I didn't fully comprehend what Vietnam and the hippies were about but I knew that I liked the hippies. We were going somewhere as a family and my father was changing radio stations. He passed on, Saturday In The Park, much to my older brother's chagrin. "They all have music degrees!" My brother yelled, as if ushering in a new day for what "rock" meant.

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The Cuban Missle Crisis. I was sitting in a dorm lounge with about 500 people. It was absolutely silent in that room. I've never felt anything so frightening in my life.

smells and music do that to me too..

smells will trigger memories in a very strong flash back..

7th grade social studies with Mr. G. We saw the second tower fall. I remember putting my head down and asking if the TV could be turned off but the teacher was glued to it and didn't hear me.

i remember 9/11. i also remember my music teacher welling up, telling me it was 'the end of days'. it wasn't, to say the least. sure was a tragedy, though.

Rock fests and contested protests were in(or beyond) the moment sometimes almost nonstop by their very nature. I walked across Abbey Road there and have a pic to prove it.

I was born in Miami. A couple of months before I turned 12, my family decided to move to California. I told myself I would want to remember this date, June 8, 1959. We crossed into another state on June 11. That was more than 50 years ago. I still remember how I felt, excited, something new!

Little did I know what was to come.

Since then, there have been many, the death of JFK, 9/11, things in Viet Nam, my first love. Life is a stream of still pictures.

My first high was pretty life-changing. It opened my eyes to the truth that this herb is not a big deal like people make it out to be. It doesn't make people violent. It didn't make me want to be destructive in any way. I was just happy and relaxed and content.
The moment I took control and changed my major in college was a moment I remember fresh in my mind. Everyone was against it. Everyone thought I was "copping out". But it was my decision and I stood by it. I felt strong.

Growing up in my generation I think we will have a few! Watching Barack Obama's inauguration speech. I can always tell my children that I saw the election of the first black president in history, I saw the millenium, I saw 9/11. Even if it was just on the news... things like that seem to connect a generation and I can always carry that with me.

9/11 was probably the biggest shock of "In the Moment". It's this generations Pearl Harbor. But that's a grand scale.

I was coming out of madam Tussauds wax work museum on a rare trip to London when Bobby Kennedy was shot - I watched people watching it on TV _ I knew it was a big deal from people's reactions - I was too young to understand American politics. - but I had this instinct that I would remember this - and I can still see the greay, trying to rain skies and the people hunched round a TV shop window...

When I was about 5 my Mom sat me in front of her in the saddle on a huge black horse named Destiny. I knew in an instant that horses would figure large in my life, and so they have.

When I was 15 or so, my father took me for lunch at the Waldorf Astoria and I saw this young blonde man in a white suit (It was Rutger Hauer) and he was so beautiful, I just stopped with my mouth open and he saw me gaping at him and just laughed. A few years later I saw him in a movie.

@zeeie anyway way the wind blows

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Do you have memories where you knew you were, "In a moment"?

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The Cuban Missle Crisis. I was sitting in a dorm lounge with about 500 people. It was absolutely silent in that room. I've never felt anything so frightening in my life.

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smells and music do that to me too..

smells will trigger memories in a very strong flash back..

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7th grade social studies with Mr. G. We saw the second tower fall. I remember putting my head down and asking if the TV could be turned off but the teacher was glued to it and didn't hear me.

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i remember 9/11. i also remember my music teacher welling up, telling me it was 'the end of days'. it wasn't, to say the least. sure was a tragedy, though.

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Rock fests and contested protests were in(or beyond) the moment sometimes almost nonstop by their very nature. I walked across Abbey Road there and have a pic to prove it.

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9/11 was probably the biggest shock of "In the Moment". It's this generations Pearl Harbor. But that's a grand scale.

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When I was about 5 my Mom sat me in front of her in the saddle on a huge black horse named Destiny. I knew in an instant that horses would figure large in my life, and so they have.

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When I was 15 or so, my father took me for lunch at the Waldorf Astoria and I saw this young blonde man in a white suit (It was Rutger Hauer) and he was so beautiful, I just stopped with my mouth open and he saw me gaping at him and just laughed. A few years later I saw him in a movie.

Do you have memories where you knew you were, "In a moment"?

The Cuban Missle Crisis. I was sitting in a dorm lounge with about 500 people. It was absolutely silent in that room. I've never felt anything so frightening in my life.

smells and music do that to me too..smells will trigger memories in a very strong flash back..

7th grade social studies with Mr. G. We saw the second tower fall. I remember putting my head down and asking if the TV could be turned off but the teacher was glued to it and didn't hear me.

i remember 9/11. i also remember my music teacher welling up, telling me it was 'the end of days'. it wasn't, to say the least. sure was a tragedy, though.

Rock fests and contested protests were in(or beyond) the moment sometimes almost nonstop by their very nature. I walked across Abbey Road there and have a pic to prove it.

9/11 was probably the biggest shock of "In the Moment". It's this generations Pearl Harbor. But that's a grand scale.

When I was about 5 my Mom sat me in front of her in the saddle on a huge black horse named Destiny. I knew in an instant that horses would figure large in my life, and so they have.

When I was 15 or so, my father took me for lunch at the Waldorf Astoria and I saw this young blonde man in a white suit (It was Rutger Hauer) and he was so beautiful, I just stopped with my mouth open and he saw me gaping at him and just laughed. A few years later I saw him in a movie.

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smells and music do that to me too..

smells will trigger memories in a very strong flash back..