I had just come to the US from Kuwait in July 1990, and remember EVERY detail for the next few months ... I'd be glued to the TV as soon as I got home from school (8th grade) til bedtime. I can still hear the music that CNN used to play when they did their Gulf War broadcasts.
I was a Jr. in High School. I don't remember what I was doing at exactly the moment that war broke out. I do remember that while it was on TV that all we did in my World history class was watch it. Several of us even spent our open class time in there watching. CK
I was working for Disney and living in Burbank, California. I was living with my then-girlfriend at the time. I remember that we just finished making love, and I turned on the TV, switched to CNN, and the bombing had begun.
Insert sick and twisted joke of your choice here.... My personal one being, "I hope you did not look at her and say, 'I thought the bombing just ended'"
Seriously, we had just finished, and then we just sat there and watched Peter Arnett from his hotel room in Baghdad. But all of you are free to insert your sick and twisted jokes. Those of you who know me know that I enjoy that sort of thing!
I had completed grad school a few years earlier and was in my second corporate job in, of all places, backwoods Colorado (at 8000' feet). I do not recall the exact moment when bombing began. Maybe I was preoccupied with the next blast of -30 degree weather.
I was in Grad school, and was at my girlfriend's (now my wife) apartment. We have the first day and 1/2 on video tape. I thought our future kids might like to see how it was unfolding. DD
I was either in Junior High or a freshman in high school. I don't remember much of it at all. I never really got stressed about it or anything.
I also remember when Iraq invaded Kuwait...it was the summertime and I was sacking groceries at Randall's. I remember everyone in the store was talking about it...and about the seemingly inevitable war.
I was a fine, upstanding Second Baptist lad. Wednesday night (I think) YoungLife was where the chicks were, so I was a regular. Afterwards, my crew would hit Stoneybrook park & drink beer. In hindsight, I wasn't a very good Baptist.
i went to YL because the chicks were there too! it was all good. but then something was said by a leader one night that really resonated with me. had a huge impact on me. i still donate time and resources to YL. can't tell you how many moving and deep conversations i've had about God over cold beer.
I was sitting in my room with my teddy bear and He-Man action figure, plotting a plan to dominate the world after I was sent to my room for not eating my spinage....just kidding. I don't remember hardly anything long term, especially since I was like 5 yrs old. I still have problems remembering stuff 3 years ago.
Are you the REAL Professor Chaos??????? PS - I noticed you weren't around for a long time RC. Glad to see you back. I was starting to worry about ya.
Hehe...have any of you guys ever gone to a restaurant and got your order mixed up with someone else's? THAT WAS ME! HAHAHAHAHA! What are you going to do now? Man, I feel all special and stuff...you guys actually care about all the...well, some of the posters.
