I was a senior in high school. I took my little sister to Randall's to get a pint of ice cream and when I got home my Mom told us that we had just started bombing Iraq.
hmm, in 1991 i was 9 which means i was in 3rd grade. i remember always seeing the green pictures on cnn or whatever news i was watching and all the little missiles flying through the night. have no clue where i was when it actually started, but that's 3rd graders for ya.
My friends and I had recently entered the selective service program, and I remember having a major discussion on the draft and all that what if sort of thinking. For some reason this also stuck with me why I have know idea. The US had an incredible amount of ammunition left over from WWII for the big guns on battleships. It was alot easier to recommision a battleship along with its supply group and send it over to the gulf to fire these old rounds nonstop for the course of the war. This was cheaper and easier than destroying the shells here in the US- so they said, I always thought someone pulled some strings for one last go round in an old WWII battleship. -That is an official useless fact
YL gals were easier. I have no idea why, but take them to Camp Frontier and they turned bad on the busride over there.
I was on my way to the college to pick up my-then-girlfriend-turned-wife-turned-ex wife and I heard it on the radio. So many young pups on this board.
You aint kidding FT, I was already working on my second career as a live sound reinforcement engineer....I think we were setting up a show at the Summit(don't remember who it was tho) and one of the road crew that had been watching TV in the tour bus came out and mentioned it...but since we didnt have a tv on the arena floor...I didnt get to watch any of it till the next day. RC, glad to see ya back...where ya been young-un? Hey Buck, don;t feel bad..it aint easy being a *good* Baptist...too damn many rules..I was considered a bad Baptist because I had long hair, listened to hard rock and smoked cigarettes...even though none of those aspects of my life affected my relationship with God....but the folks at my church felt for sure that I was going to hell......go figger...
I had just gotten out of the hospital a few days before after appendectomy surgery when the effort to expel Iraq from Kuwait started (the air war, anyway). I recall that my wife, my mother-in-law and I were going to go to a Mexican restuarant in Amarillo (called La Fiesta) in Amarillo for lunch or dinner or something when I saw someone on the news say the war had started. We waited about two or three minutes and then went on with our business.
11yrs old in the 6th grade. I remember I had a "Gulf Storm" shirt with some cool planes and eagles on it. I remember watching all of the Gulf news at school on Channel 1.
