Maybe Silly... But Do You Remember Where You Where When

[ChiciB1]

John Lennon was shot 25 years ago today???

Me? I was with a bowling team winning FIRST place that night. Then promptly got totally DRUNK and ended up in the emergency room after falling out of my truck!! Back then when I drank it was only "beer", but got talked into downing several hefty shots of a drink called a "Snowshoe!" Have NEVER had one since! IMAGINE... IMAGINE!!

Maybe I should have skipped that last part... but I basically landed on my head and ruined the clothes I was wearing that night. You know, vascular bleeding promotes LOTS of blood!!!

I was so traumatized in more ways than ONE!! I STILL play John Lennon today, recently purchased one of his Greatest Hits CD's!!

Yeppers, I'm a BOOMER... and part of the ANTI-WAR Movement way back then!! IMAGINE, if we had THAT activism TODAY!!!! IMAGINE if we had Congressmen who represented "We The People" once again!! IMAGINE if we weren't such a throw-away Society again! Just IMAGINE!!!

[acmavm]

1. Yes, talking to a friend on the phone listening to the radio. What a shock

that news bulletin was. We talked until the wee hours of the morning about the murder and all the things that we going on at the time.

Will never forget.

[liberalitch]

2. I was 15, so I didn't find out until the next morning....

My sister is a beatle freak so she was wailing as she told me (same with george a few years back). I was sitting at the breakfast table.
My little puppy-love boy friend who played guitar didn't come to school that day as he broke his hand punching the wall

[jimshoes]

3. Watching Monday night football

with two friends. Bummed out hard that night. I hope the creep that killed John never has a moments peace in this life or the next one ever.

[ChiciB1]

5. All We Are Saying... Is Give Peace A Chance!!

Some really great songs on that CD!!!

[demnan]

4. I found out the next morning

I was riding in the van pool with my boss (the driver) when I heard it on the news. He wasn't a person who really would have understood how I felt.

I remember what my Mother said, "Why did someone have to shoot that boy?" See to my Mom, the Beatles were nice boys the same age as her sons.

[Voltaire]

6. Okinawa, Japan

I was a 21 year old Seaman stuck on the Rock. I heard it on Armed Forces Radio.

[Tarc]

7. Vaguely

I wasn't even 10 yet at the time, but I kind recall people talking about it. About all I knew about the Beatles at that time was that the Yellow Submarine was a cool movie.

[ChiciB1]

11. WELCOME To DU!!

Maybe you've lurked here for some time, but I always like to welcome new members... to their ADDICTION!!

Regressing further back to a time before me... It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times!!

Waxing Nostalgic today, can't help it! But John Lennon was a REAL "Peace Activist" regardless of what other negative connotations that got attached to him!

[MostlyLurks]

8. Self-Delete. Nevermind. n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

9. I was in college

...handing in my term paper on Gun Control. A week later my professor read my paper to the class....I received and "A".

Cheers!

[tanyev]

10. Sr. in high school.

I didn't find out until the next morning. I was putting on my makeup, listening to the radio, and I knew something was up because there were several Lennon/Beatles songs without any commercials or DJ chit-chat. Finally a DJ came on and said what had happened. I was stunned. I really only had one friend who was affected as much as I was, a guy in choir I was kind of dating. One week later his sister was killed in a car wreck. Rough Christmas.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. I was in graduate school, living in a four-person household

on the third floor of an old house in New Haven, Connecticut.

[cmkramer]

13. My story

I worked nights then, and I didn't hear the news until the next morning when I turned on the television. I remember being very angry and thinking "OK, who was the idiot who did this?!" Then I called my old college roommate who literally worshipped the Beatles in general and John Lennon in particular and we commiserated for a while.

[ChiciB1]

14. It's Good To See That As The Day Has Worn On That

he's at least being remembered in some fashion! Have to say it surprised me, but made me happy!

[ChiciB1]

15. Just Remembering HIM One More Time!!

All one needs to do is just LISTEN to some of his very passionate, wonderful and inspiring words!

And Again... IMAGINE what he would be saying TODAY!!

[bklyncowgirl]

16. I went to bed early that month.

The next morning my clock radio came on to a New York rock station--the old WNEW--and the announcer was talking in a very somber voice about the tragic event which had occurred. I remember my mind racing--was it terrorists in the Mideast, a horrible accident, Reagan had finally bombed somebody or maybe someone important had been killed.

I was shocked when I heard it was John Lennon.

I realized that I was getting older too, one of my younger co-workers came in all bright and cheerful. Someone--not me--slapped her down pretty hard. Later a group of us old hippies retreated to the isolated hole that was my office and held a wake which would have gotten the whole bunch of us fired and probably arrested.

One of the guys on the floor just said "For God's sake open a window and clear that smoke out."

It was the end of an era.

[readermostly]

17. I was watching 20/20 (on Monday's then) and Geraldo Riviera was

the entertainment correspondent for the program. He wasn't scheduled to be on that night, but they broke in with his report of the news and covered this tragedy the rest of the program. I was just stunned. The next day the local radio stations in Kansas City where I then lived played John Lennon and Beatles songs all day. It was a sad, shocking time.