I know many of the viewers of this thread weren't around at the time but, you guys have historical events that some of the older folks (like me) don't remember. I was in English (Mrs. Manning's class) my Senior year in Highschool when a girl ran in the room and told Mrs. Manning what had happened....One of the wanna be's in the back room said (and I quote) Good, that's what he needed....It took less than a second for about 5 guys to just beat the crap out of this guy.....Then the world opened to today's society. The President was dead and America began to rally....Where were you when the Murrah building was blown up????This thread may not last long....But>>>>>Where were you?

kindergarten taking a nap on my little pad.

I was in the 5th grade when JFK got shot. My mom was just dropping me back off at school after lunch when we heard the news on the radio. I immediately went inside and told my teacher, but she didn't believe me. She asked who told me and I said we'd heard it on the radio in the car. She went and turned on a tv, saw that it was true, and school pretty much ended for the day after that.
When the Murrah Bldg. was bombed, I was working in the production dept. at Ch. 9. There were about 4 or 5 of us on headsets and I think we were tagging some Regis & Kathy Lee spots or something. Suddenly, there was a big boom. I looked over at the window of my workspace and it was wobbling back and forth. Everyone on headsets started asking, "What the heck was that?" The director said, "I don't know. Maybe somebody dropped something upstairs." My buddy and I looked at each other and said, "Nah...I've been here a long time and I've never seen that window shake like that." Then the director added, "...or maybe an explosion of some kind." About that time, over the headsets, I could hear someone come running from the newsroom yelling that there had been an explosion downtown and that they needed to break into programming as soon as possible. Normally, it might have taken a few minutes to round up a crew, but since we were all already on headsets anyway, we just said, "Sit down and talk"....and they punched them up on air.

I know many of the viewers of this thread weren't around at the time but, you guys have historical events that some of the older folks (like me) don't remember. I was in English (Mrs. Manning's class) my Senior year in Highschool when a girl ran in the room and told Mrs. Manning what had happened....One of the wanna be's in the back room said (and I quote) Good, that's what he needed....It took less than a second for about 5 guys to just beat the crap out of this guy.....Then the world opened to today's society. The President was dead and America began to rally....Where were you when the Murrah building was blown up????This thread may not last long....But>>>>>Where were you?

I WAS IN lUBBOCK TEXAS WORKING FOR A COMPANY ( MILAM'S TOYLAND) THAT HAD A CHAIN OF 7 TOY STORES. i WAS WRAPPING A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO PUT IN LAY AWAY ( HOW MANY REMEMBER WHAT LAY AWAY IS?)\
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I remember sitting in a chair in the living room ...school had been let out.....when Jack Ruby shot Oswald....Wow...History in the making. Of course everyone in the U.S. wanted it done but they weren't willing to give due process...I still think McVeigh had more help than those he said helped....I'm weird though....

...I still think McVeigh had more help than those he said helped....I'm weird though.... In that case, don't read "The Third Terrorist" by Jayna Davis. It'll just aggrivate you.

I don't know where I was when he was shot but I remember watching the funeral on TV - I was four.

given the age and time, possibly on the pottie, possibly taking a nap, but I can't say for certain. I barely know where I was yesterday fer cryin out loud.

I was negative 17 years old. I don't really remember where I was.

I was a sophomore in high school that year. It was not long after noon but I remember walking down the hall and there was some announcement on the intercom. I didn't really comprehend what was said and everyone was turning towards each other and there was a lot of confusion and a cacophony of questioning voices. Then there was a lot of crying and fear and anger and despair.

That's how I remember it.

I was a senior at OBU and one of the few rabid Kennedy supporters on campus. When our class was interupted with the word of the shooting I wandered in a daze to the student union to watch the only TV on campus. As I approached I noticed that the union was over flowing and the entrance area was cram packed 20 or 30 deep. As I approached the perifery of the crowd I was about to stop and stand at the edge but someone turned and saw me and stepped aside, nodding me through. The next person did the same and soon a path through the crowd openned up before me clear across the room to the TV. There a person in a chair stood up and gave it to me. I was too much in a daze to realize fully what had happened. THose people all knew my feelings becaused I had argued politics with most of them. It was personally a warm fuzzy that they opened the path for me, but later I realized that the wonderful thing was that I heard not even a mumble of a snide remark about kennedy....like "had it coming" or anything like it. They rose above their politics and mourned like the rest of the country.

Well, what's before being a little sperm? Cause that's what I was. I guess I was marrow inside of one of my dad's bones. On another note I also guess I was an egg waiting in the line up to get lucky, lol...

I was just a gleam in my daddy's eye when Kennedy was shot.

How about when the Challenger shuttle exploded - Jan. 28, 1986? I was working for a petroleum publication company in the print shop and we had a little TV set up in our area so we could watch it live.

On the Murrah bombing, I was sleeping in my hotel room in Vegas when my brother-in-law called me from the next room and told me to turn on the TV. I knew the building because a friend's mom had once there (not at that time fortunately). All the lines were jammed so I couldn't reach anyone I knew back in OKC. My mom & dad were trying to call my home and once they got through, they only got our answering machine so they were worried sick (I only had a car phone at that time, not a handheld cell). She eventually tracked down numbers for my wife's place of work and were transferred around until someone told them that we were in Vegas. When I got back, I volunteered to be on a rotating crew located at One Bell Central that worked on keeping the rescue worker's cellphones charged and swapping out dead batteries for good ones. It was a pretty surreal experience. I was amazed at how there were so many people and so many businesses providing food and supplies for the workers 24 hours / day. I still have the ID that was given to me to be allowed inside the fence.

I was just a gleam in my daddy's eye when Kennedy was shot.

How about when the Challenger shuttle exploded - Jan. 28, 1986? I was working for a petroleum publication company in the print shop and we had a little TV set up in our area so we could watch it live.

On the Murrah bombing, I was sleeping in my hotel room in Vegas when my brother-in-law called me from the next room and told me to turn on the TV. I knew the building because a friend's mom had once there (not at that time fortunately). All the lines were jammed so I couldn't reach anyone I knew back in OKC. My mom & dad were trying to call my home and once they got through, they only got our answering machine so they were worried sick (I only had a car phone at that time, not a handheld cell). She eventually tracked down numbers for my wife's place of work and were transferred around until someone told them that we were in Vegas. When I got back, I volunteered to be on a rotating crew located at One Bell Central that worked on keeping the rescue worker's cellphones charged and swapping out dead batteries for good ones. It was a pretty surreal experience. I was amazed at how there were so many people and so many businesses providing food and supplies for the workers 24 hours / day. I still have the ID that was given to me to be allowed inside the fence.

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That was major tragedy for our city. OKC has more to be remembered than a bombing. But, it was people like you and all the other Okies that came to the rescue prove just how great a place like Oklahoma is.....Thanks from me....I had two good friends killed in the bombing....

I was in a grocery cart at Humpty Dumpty in line to check out. My mom pushed the cart to the register and people were gathered around a radio and the people were very upset. We only knew he had been shot. By the time we got home, it was announced the president was dead. Like ECO, I remember the funeral better than the shooting. My mom cried through so much of the funeral. I knew something awful had happened.

I also remember Ruby shooting Oswald and how they played that film over and over and over.

In 1968, I woke up to the news that Bobby Kennedy had been shot in Los Angeles late our time the night before. This memory is very clear. It was a turbulent summer. MLK, RFK, riots, fires, the Democratic Convention in Chicago and some really bad things in the streets, a sense that things were coming apart.

Let's see...
JFK don't know where I was only 2 yrs.
Fed Building well, sadly I was there that day.
That is all I ever care to say about that.

I was working the day of the Federal Building. What an awful day. I immediately asked my supervisor if I could go give blood because I'm A-. The blood bank was only a few blocks from my office. She said I could and I was second in line. The place was all but empty. By the time I got out, the place looked like something in a war zone - they had people everywhere hooked up to tubes. I stepped outside (about two hours had passed) and there were ambulances as far as the eye could see. It was stunning. I guess that is how long it took for ambulances to start arriving from all over the state and that must have been a staging area. I was over by the Veterans/Dept of Health/DMHSAS. Sadly, there was really no need for them. I'd planned to be at the federal building that morning but a co-worker was late on something so I changed my plans. Lucked out. I had real flashbacks of that day on 911. My husband's secretary lost her husband. What an awful day. When that cold wet rain came in while the search was still going on I just wept. At that point, a lot of us were still hoping for survivors.

We was working on countyline and Northwest Expressway when the bomb went off, we felt the concushion all the way out there and the boom was still loud, we ran outside to see what happened, and seen the big plume of smoke coming from downtown, we knew something terrible had happened. One of our relatives was working there and he made it out ok but in a way he is scared for life.

I remember making a delivery to one of my stores and I had a one ton Ryder truck....I was cursed and screamed at for days over using that truck. I got out and a lady came screaming at me about being involved with the bombing. When I got her to calm down and explained to her that Ryder had more than one truck and I had bought this one years before...She began to cry and apologize.....Monday after it happened (the bombing) I had to go to Mississippi and I took that truck.....along with an employee....We were stop four times before we got to Checotah. The Highway Patrolman requested that we ride with the back door up....We did....Still remember friends killed in the bombing....

It is interesting to hear where people were on that day in April in OKC. Now living on the West side of the nation, East Coast and others it is strange how near we all were to one another. Now we fuss with each other on this sight and we probably passed each other from time to time.

Concerning my first post on this thread, (I received a private message.) and yes I was really there and I am serious I don't ever want to talk about it. PERIOD.
I have learned as so many other how to deal with it and thanks for the concern I do not want therapy.

nativeokie:....feel for you and your thoughts:....I was right in the Middle of the 'May 3rd, 1999 Tornado in Moore....I feel the same way about it as you do on your situation. I also, was in Katrina and Rita Hurricanes. And don' want to discuss much there. But, theis nostalgia group are good people in all and they are just friendly Okie folks......thanks and by the way, what part of the U. S. do you live in now? i think you had gotten involved in some of the old Southside OKC thread.....GENERALS64:...see ya next time....

On 911, we had to go into a parking garage to get a co-worker's car. Military jets were screaming by and we had some sonic booms but we didn't know if it was that or bombs. There were reports of bombings in the city and you can imagine we were scared spitless because cells had shut down, no police or anything. We believed we were in the middle of an attack and had (false) reports that the metro had been blown up, that the mall was on fire, etc.

I was absolutely terrified to go down in that basement garage - kept thinking of the Federal Bombing. Of course, I didn't have any choice and was with a pregnant co-worker so it didn't seem like a good time to utterly freak out, more's the pity. But I was scared to death the building was going to crash in on us. Irrational, but that was what was going through my mind. I never was so relieved when we drove the car out to the point where we saw daylight. Then we kept getting evacuation orders on the radio and we'd periodically have to leave our cars in the street and run to the nearest federal building. That happened several times. We expected bombs to drop on us at any second. It was complete chaos.

nativeokie:....feel for you and your thoughts:....I was right in the Middle of the 'May 3rd, 1999 Tornado in Moore....I feel the same way about it as you do on your situation. I also, was in Katrina and Rita Hurricanes. And don' want to discuss much there. But, theis nostalgia group are good people in all and they are just friendly Okie folks......thanks and by the way, what part of the U. S. do you live in now? i think you had gotten involved in some of the old Southside OKC thread.....GENERALS64:...see ya next time....

Thanks General64, I live in San diego now.

Thanks General64, I live in San diego now.

Well, Poo....I'm sure you are enjoying the Sun light our there and the warm Pacific Breezes just like we are here now....It's so blasted cold out there right now it's not any fun. Wednesday I was in Ardmore...it was 38 degrees....Monday evening it was 78...Welcome to Oklahoma.....wish I were somewhere warm.....Generals64:....see ya next time....

Well, Poo....I'm sure you are enjoying the Sun light our there and the warm Pacific Breezes just like we are here now....It's so blasted cold out there right now it's not any fun. Wednesday I was in Ardmore...it was 38 degrees....Monday evening it was 78...Welcome to Oklahoma.....wish I were somewhere warm.....Generals64:....see ya next time....

Funny I miss the cold and the change of seasons.
Someone should start a what you miss most of Oklahoma when you are not in Oklahoma.

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That was major tragedy for our city. OKC has more to be remembered than a bombing. But, it was people like you and all the other Okies that came to the rescue prove just how great a place like Oklahoma is.....Thanks from me....I had two good friends killed in the bombing....
Thank you, but it really was my honor to go down there and play the miniscule a part that I did in support of those heroes. :tiphat:

Funny I miss the cold and the change of seasons.
Someone should start a what you miss most of Oklahoma when you are not in Oklahoma.
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Do it:............I've done my share of time in Texas...I'll stay with it with you...Not Jail time...I just lived in Texas for 10 years.....

On Challenger Day, I was sitting Indian Style in 1st grade watching the launch live on the little rolling TV from the library room. I don't recall how I felt on that day when it happened because I had never been exposed to something so violent. I think my mind blocked the memory of the shock out.

On 4/19/95, I was a sophomore in high school up in Missouri (from here but went to school there for three years). We found out about lunch time and just went into our current issues class and stayed there the rest of the afternoon watching the TV. After that I went home because being 450 miles away from OKC I really didn't know the extent of the damage. I tried to call all my friends and family members back here to see if they were safe and what not. Obviously with all the emergency transmissions and everyone down here using any bandwidth available, there was no chance in hell for me to get a hold of my friends, just 'all circuits are busy'. I believe it was a day and a half to two days before I was able to get through to anybody. Not knowing the status of anyone is pretty scary when you're left in the dark.

I was somewhat around, I was in my mothers womb and was born two months later.

Challenger, I was working at Triangle A&E.

OKC Bombing: Third floor at One Benham Place, we thought maybe one of the news helicopters crashed because we heard it and it shook our building until we heard the news report on KTOK that someone was listening to.

I was in college when the Challenger exploded. I was home between classes and was watching it on TV. How awful. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and was thinking, at least for a moment - that can't be right... is that supposed to do that? I just stood there with my hand over my mouth staring at the screen saying, oh my god, oh my god. It made a big impact in a different way because I was studying to be a teacher and the teacher was on board. I was worried sick that her kids were there and watched it happen.

I was at Pearls Seafood when the Branch Davidian Compound was reported to be on fire. I'd run over to Pearls between lawschool classes to grab some gumbo, to go. The scenes on the screen were horrific and we, of course, were all worried about the kids.

I lived in Dallas during the time of Waco standoff, so we had a full dose of news about it all the time, every day.

I lived in Dallas during the time of Waco standoff, so we had a full dose of news about it all the time, every day.

I'll bet you did. That was just crazy.

I was in the 5th grade when Kennedy was shot. One of the teachers came
into the classroom and told ours. The TV was on for the rest of the day.

When the Murrah building was bombed, I was a few blocks west doing some
charity work at the Christian church on NW 7th & N Lee. I was walking down
a hall and it felt like the floor fell from under and I was tossed back and forth.
I thought it was a car bomb.

On 911 my father in law and I were fishing farm ponds when it happened.

I was in the fourth grade when Kennedy was shot, but was home ill that day. I was lying on the living room downstairs, watching TV; my mom came down from upstairs, saying the radio (likely KTOK) had reported JFK had been shot. A few days later, I remember my paternal grandfather telling me to pay close attention to all the events, because it was probably a once-in-a-lifetime event.

When the Murrah building went up, I was sitting in my office in the basement of University Hospital; didn't hear or feel a thing. My wife called me to give me the news.

I was at my grandmas just minding my own business house when everything started shaking. Then to my complete suprise my mom yells " (insert my name here) what did u just do?"

I was a junior in college at OCU but on the day of JFK's assassination I was selling stock for an IPO I had helped organize. I was working for AG Edwards under my boss, Bob Staples, and was promoting the stock for a new company located in Pauls Valley.

My routine became that every day after either my 11:00 o'clock or my 12:40 class ended, I'd put my salesman pants on, hop in my car and drive down to the Pauls Valley area chasing prospects. I'd been doing this for two weeks prior to the shooting and my car radio was very weak and very spotty. Most of the time I didn't bother turning it on. The stock was just starting to gain momentum so I had hopes this dreary day would result in a number of sales.

Like I said, when I got twenty miles outside of Oklahoma City my radio would fail, so I didn't bother turning it on. I had made one sale and the next place I stopped was an oil field company in Maysville. I walked in, high spirited and and optimistic, and the guy turned to me and said "Good God, man, don't you know the president has just been shot!? Are you stupid?"

I ran out of there, drove as fast as I could back to OKC, hoping to get to a spot where my car radio would work. Around Norman it started coming in (this was prior to I-35) and the traffic was horrendous but I made it back to catch the TV news, crying most of the way.

Needless to say, sale of the stock came to a screeching halt. The whole world had fallen off a cliff. Everyone was engulfed in grief.

On a side note, my broadcast journalism teacher at OCU that year, Bob Flournoy, was very much involved in the Warren Report, among other things. He was on the parade route and was recording it on his recorder when the shots went down. He felt he had recorded shots coming from different directions. His tape was turned over to the FBI. He was dead two years later, one of several "suspicious" deaths connected to the assassination as noted by Jim Garrison.

On a further side note, it was several years before I would meet my wife, who was from Dallas, but she had a close up view of the investigation. Her neighbor across the back alley was Abraham Zapruder. Suits coming in and out for days. Both of Abe's kids played with her brothers and one of them went to school with my wife. By the way, Henry Zapruder graduated from OU.

I was at my grandmas just minding my own business house when everything started shaking. Then to my complete suprise my mom yells " (insert my name here) what did u just do?"

Hahaha. I can believe that.

I was in 3rd grade at Sacred Heart when they took all students into the gym,sat us down and announced what had happened. School was dismissed. I only had to walk one block to get home. For some reason I remember it snowing but not totally sure! I also remeber when Oswald was shot. Inside Humpty Dumpty on Commerce and Walker.

I was in 3rd grade at Sacred Heart when they took all students into the gym,sat us down and announced what had happened. School was dismissed. I only had to walk one block to get home. For some reason I remember it snowing but not totally sure! I also remeber when Oswald was shot. Inside Humpty Dumpty on Commerce and Walker.
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It wasn't snowing but the air was electric everywhere you went....and people were all panicky.....I forgot about that old building being a Humpty Dumpty.

For some reason I remember it snowing but not totally sure!
It wasn't snowing. In fact, it was a clear day in OKC.

Sidebar - I remember there was no TV for over a week. While it was an
historic event, we kids were irritated that there was nothing to watch except
Kennedy getting shot over and over and over and over and over...

Being only 12 I didn't get it at all.

I don't remember them showing it for a week but I do know there were no cartoons that saturday. I was a thrid grader

I know many of the viewers of this thread weren't around at the time but, you guys have historical events that some of the older folks (like me) don't remember. I was in English (Mrs. Manning's class) my Senior year in Highschool when a girl ran in the room and told Mrs. Manning what had happened....One of the wanna be's in the back room said (and I quote) Good, that's what he needed....It took less than a second for about 5 guys to just beat the crap out of this guy.....Then the world opened to today's society. The President was dead and America began to rally....Where were you when the Murrah building was blown up????This thread may not last long....But>>>>>Where were you?
I was a debater for OSU and was on a debate trip to Wichita University. Pow! The shock of it all. I was very annoyed when, during lunch, I overheard a conversation between a couple of young profs and one of them said, "That makes us just like any South American country." Asshole. Probably, he still is.

here's a "Where were you" reminder....Can anyone remember the Tornado that hit the south side of OKC in April of 1960?...If so what do you remember?

... here's a "Where were you" reminder... Can anyone remember the Tornado
that hit the south side of OKC in April of 1960? If so what do you remember?


Like DUH! I've only mentioned this on EVERY list on the OKC Talk Forums.

We were playing dominos in the kitchen when "The STORM" hit. Mom was
scared out of her senses and we kids were clueless. Dad went outside THEN
came running into the house and crammed all of us into the bathroom. Mom
was shivering and we kids didn't know what to think. Suddenly this HUGE
thunder crash hit. Dad had this terrifying look on his face. We all started
crying UNCONTROLLABLY. The roof had been lifted off of our house and
put back on.

It was amazing. It was the LORD who protected us through that night.

I'll never forget that night as long as I live.

Does anyone remember the smell of Coleman fuel? It was everywhere!

Like DUH! I've only mentioned this on EVERY list on the OKC Talk Forums.It was amazing. It was the LORD who protected us through that night.

With a little help from dad! Sounds like that was really a wild night.

I lived in Dallas during the time of Waco standoff, so we had a full dose of news about it all the time, every day.

Waco! Doesn't that stand for "We ain't comin out"?

I was in the third grade when Kennedy was shot. I'm telling you this because a situation evolved that I have never been able to live down. I was greatly excited when the t.v. reported that the funeral procession would wind it's way through "Capitol Hill". I did not know there was more than one!!!

Waco! Doesn't that stand for "We ain't comin out"?

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I thought it meant Western Area Cook-Off.....Whew, I lived North of Waco for ten (10) years.....Hmmmmm always say I didn't get to go to Viet Nam so I had to live in Texas....

When this thread was first started it was an attempt to hear stories from people that remember where they were during a special part of History both National and local. For Instance:

"Where were you when the May 3rd, 1999 Tornado hit the OKC area?
Me, I was right in the middle of it. I was headed to Kansas City, Kansas on a business trip and my wife (not afraid of anything) asked me to stay for a little while longer or until the Storm passed... O.K. I said and then the entire bottom fellout. We own some buildings in the West side of Moore, Oklahoma and when we got there we were very blessed that the buildings were still there but the neighborhood was GONE....I saw damages that I don't ever want to see again. I saw friends and customers of mine in a complete DAZE...Their homes were destroyed and they were still looking for family members....We organized a way to feed the people we could and for 7 days and nights (with volunteers) we prepared 10,000 plus meals....How do we know???that's all the styrofoam plates we had....I have never seen people jump in and help like they did. Within a few hours we had a command post set up...There were Highway Patrol and the city of Moore Police departments men and women everywhere. OG&E...now that was something to write a book about. I can go on and on...that's what some of us would love to hear about...No therapy just OKIES interested in others....

Where were you during the Katrina Hurricane or Rita Hurricane??? I was there....Don't want to remember anything about that....O.K>????

Hey, 64, I love stories like that that show what us okies are made of. One of the most telling stories in that vain that I ever heard came from Tom Brocaw while he was here covering the bombing. Paraphrased, this is what he said.

"I have covered many events of devistation and in all cases the prices of everything skyrockets immediately, from available food to necessary supplies. Not here in Oklahoma City. Trucks just began showing up with all manner of needed supplies and there is NO charge. Food is free right now as there is no way set up to deal with money. I have never seen such generous people"

I have never been so proud to be an Oklahoman. Damn near bawled like a baby.

I was home, trying to get my husband on the phone. He was to busy to talk he was trying to move the fire truck out of the tornado path,, Luck was with him when it reached the intersection of SW 134 and May it turned to the east and followedSW 134th. Fire station 35 is located at 131st and May. He followed the tornado into the neighborhood and has been interviewed by several tv stations. We were lucky it didn't get us, but my mother-in-inlaw lost her house

I was inside the weather center at one of our local stations, shooting behind-the-scenes video. So I heard all the reports coming in, but I was so busy that I really didn't get a grasp of exactly what had just happened until I saw the helicopter shot with that long red swath running through Moore. Or rather, where that section of Moore USED to be.

Hey, 64, I love stories like that that show what us okies are made of. One of the most telling stories in that vain that I ever heard came from Tom Brocaw while he was here covering the bombing. Paraphrased, this is what he said.

"I have covered many events of devistation and in all cases the prices of everything skyrockets immediately, from available food to necessary supplies. Not here in Oklahoma City. Trucks just began showing up with all manner of needed supplies and there is NO charge. Food is free right now as there is no way set up to deal with money. I have never seen such generous people"

I have never been so proud to be an Oklahoman. Damn near bawled like a baby.
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If we ever meet, I'm a bit of a redneck and can get excited pretty quick. So, from out of nowhere came this guy (from Boston) wanting an interview...Sure I said except you're going to have to follow me and stay up with me....Cameras . lights, action ....Hey where did 64 go? He's in the truck headed out to fee the OG&E guys...they jumped in the truck cameras rolling so and so on....In about 30 minutes we were able to stop and he said and I , quote" Why are you doing this?" Doing what??? .....taking your time, money and effort????? I said wouldn't you do the same thing when your friends are in trouble????No, not really......Then this interview is over......My uncle saw the interview on TV DFW station....He called and said that he was proud...Really I said....then come and help.....The same day the OK Highway Patrol acame by and asked us if President Clinton could come and eat with us??? Sure, what size gloves does he wear????Why they asked....You don't work, you don't eat...they took him to Del City instead......If we don't help each other in times of need then we don't NEED to worry about getting help ourselves......Most people didn't get to help pull the dead mother from atop her child in a bath tub.....Never forget that...................Genrals64...This wasn't a brag...this is how the people of Moore, Oklahoma Handled their crisis...Just like the people covering the Murrah building bombing.....

I was watching the weather all afternoon when the tornado(s) were coming. It was just wild. I was never in any danger, near 50th and Shartel, but no real way to know that at the time. I was glued to the TV and IM'ing my buddy back in Washington DC (who I later married but didn't yet know that was in the cards) telling him what was happening. I recall telling him that I'd never seen anything like it and he hadn't either. When the tornado hit Moore, I started worrying about my mom in NE OKC. Afterwards, the smell of gas covered everything. Mom had all kinds of debris in her yard 7 - 8 miles away, pictures, bills, receipts, etc. Just incredible. Way too many people died but I am still amazed that it wasn't higher. I tell people that I am from OKC, where they blew us up in 1995, and blew us down in 1999. But we always come back.

When we were cleaning up the debris of the Tornado, I was raking junk up and saw a check book laying there.....It belonged to a friend from Church who lived 12 miles away. I returned it...trouble was he didn't have a house at all after that day. But God Prevailed...his family was fine and he had insurance.......The weirdest story I remember was the lady that thought the insurance money she got was to keep her going until she decided to build her house...she was givving money to the kids in the neighborhood and so on then we finally got her to understand that it would run out... Oh yeah, Last year 2008 there was a friend of ours who finally got her settlement check from her insurance.....She came by and said look I got my settlement $2,500.00....I looked and said that's not right....Her daughter told me to be quiet she would take care of it.....Did I mention that the check was for $250,000.00????nice daughter huh? Well, I busted her bubble and called the Bank.....

All of this was going on when Kennedy got shot????:backtotop

All of this was going on when Kennedy got shot????:backtotop
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Read the original introduction...."where were you when Kennedy got shot or any other Historical event during your life time?"""

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Read the original introduction...."where were you when Kennedy got shot or any other Historical event during your life time?"""

Okay! My bad.:sofa:

Okay! My bad.:sofa:

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Hey Pappy":...........did you ever get your hair cut???rumor is something about a mohawk???? Of course Red/Gen doesn't have to worry about his hair huh????He can't get all the grease out of it from Highschool....In response to this thread....I was in Slidell, Louisiana when Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast....you want to talk about very strange feeling....When the eye of the Hurricane came over NOTHING was moving.....and then all He%%% broke loose.