In other words, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower? I'm jealous of y'all...but I suppose that had I been living back in 1950 I would have been wishing I was born in 1860!
Being old is nothing to be jealous of.
I just use the letter c. 29c for example. Close enough.
Chick, you must be about my age, I remember all these. I think I was in 5th grade too when JFK was shot. Brother and I had gone home for lunch, it was 3 blocks. We had veg beef soup. Back to school, playground deserted. Had aliens captured everybody? But no, we could hear voices coming from the church. Peeked in, the whole school was there praying, every student, teacher, nun and priest. What's going on? Shh, go find your class, the President's been shot ... next thing in my memory, at home, watching the funeral, little John John saluting his father's coffin. Horrible, horrible. I'm 71.
The voting machine was supposed to punch out the voter's choices. Unfortunately, it didn't punch them out cleanly, so some of the ballots had little bits of paper hanging in them instead of cleanly punched holes. These were called "hanging chads," and totally messed up the counts. The machines could not properly read the ballots, they could not tell what the vote was supposed to be because it could not tell if the chad was supposed to be punched out or not. I think the ballots were read by hand at least three times and delayed the vote by a couple of weeks. It was a disaster and had everyone in an uproar. That's how I remember it anyway. The Year of the Hanging Chads.
I remember. I just wanted to flirt with Lupe Martinez and a couple other boys in the neighborhood but Dad made us all sit down and shut up because "this is history being made here!" and I'm glad he did.. I was 13 or 14 I think.I was born the day before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Obviously I was too young to remember that, but I wonder how many here remember where they were when that happened?
I was watching on TV with my wife and her aunt and uncleI was born the day before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Obviously I was too young to remember that, but I wonder how many here remember where they were when that happened?
