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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (8881)3/25/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
I was two years old at the time. Suffice it to say that I had no clue where I was when Lee Harvey Oswald (and his shadowy backup?) did the bad thing.
For me, the Defining Event of my decade occurred on an achingly blue cold January morning twelve years ago. I'd just finished a weekend visiting my folks and my honey in Maryland. On the long drive back to grad school in New Jersey, I stopped at a large upscale mall in the high north of Maryland to stretch my legs and perhaps score a cold Coke.
I walked into the mall and even for a Monday morning it was peculiarly hushed. I chose a path through a department store. Back then they had the TV Wall - hundreds of sets lined up in a living mosaic, giving a dragonfly's-eye view of Good Morning America or maybe Days of our Lives.
Everybody was at the Wall.
The Wall was cobalt-blue, showing a repeating image of the same thing in a grid like a full sheet of wallet-size yearbook photos. Audio was turned up so I could hear an announcer picking his way through "Obviously a major malfunction - controllers are looking very carefully at the situation -"
For over an hour, the TVs in their phalanx looped through the same blue&white scene unfolding like a fire-tipped lobster claw. The USA space program fell into a coma that day, and it's still in physical therapy.
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