re: #124 calochortus

I also don’t get the “what were you doing when you heard?” thing. What difference does it make?

Because normally you don’t remember “what you were doing” on any particular day but it’s part of the memory that is seared into your brain.

I also remember where I was and what I was doing:

When Challenger blew up
When I first heard about the Towers on 9/11
When Columbia blew up

I don’t remember what I was doing when Reagan was shot, just that I heard about it on the radio, on TV and in the paper.