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[SnowPink]

I was 9. I don't recall this event, but learned about them later:

[minkbunny]

At nine years old and reasonably bright, I would think you would have absorbed this news and recalled it. I mean, it was BIG news !

[deepwaterdotter]

I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on a table in my living room. My father brought it back from a European vacation trip.

[SnowPink]

On 11/9/2014 minkbunny said:

At nine years old and reasonably bright, I would think you would have absorbed this news and recalled it. I mean, it was BIG news !

I don't remember it at all. Sorry.

[Mominohio]

On 11/9/2014 minkbunny said:

At nine years old and reasonably bright, I would think you would have absorbed this news and recalled it. I mean, it was BIG news !

Senseless to shame people who had a childhood without the drama and trauma we have to deal with today as the news is in our lives 24/7. I was raised in the 1960's and only vaguely aware of the Vietnam war and it's ramifications. We were riding bikes, playing dolls and living the life of a child.

Things are different today, but I never criticize people who raise their young children in a child's world and don't expose them to excessive amounts of world events. There is plenty of time for that once they reach junior high age. I also don't condemn those who raise their kids in the "real world" either. It is a choice, and kids deserve an innocent childhood, separate of the news sometimes.

I realize the event the OP doesn't remember isn't a "horrific" event, but I find it refreshing that she had other things in her young life besides world events.

[SnowPink]

Perhaps some more mature people can contribute to this thread about this great historic event.

[minkbunny]

I am sorry, too. It would be wonderful to have this event stored in your memory bank.

I was born in 1949, I clearly remember when Eisenhower was elected (re-elected) President in 1956. I know this because we had a storekeeper in town called Ike. Everybody loved him. When I saw one of Eisenhower's campaign signs that said,

We Like Ike, I told my dad, we like Ike, too

He then explained all about President Eisenhower to me and I recall it still. And, naturally it was discussed at school when he won.

But, then, I was always very curious about the world about me.

[QueenDanceALot]

I rode bikes and horses and did my homework and I still noticed huge news stories when I was very young.

But then I was an exceptional child.

[minkbunny]

And, kitty, if I might say so - an exceptional adult !

mominohio,

We are just having fun with Mellie. She has an ongoing theme of inserting historic events into the board then saying she is only vaguely aware of them as she is a mere child.

One would think that a 9 year old would have had a history teacher who would have been thrilled to discuss this monumental event with the class the very next day. Discuss in a way that the student could recall every word 25 years later.

One would think.

[SnowPink]

On 11/9/2014 minkbunny said:

And, kitty, if I might say so - an exceptional adult !

mominohio,

We are just having fun with Mellie. She has an ongoing theme of inserting historic events into the board then saying she is only vaguely aware of them as she is a mere child.

One would think that a 9 year old would have had a history teacher who would have been thrilled to discuss this monumental event with the class the very next day. Discuss in a way that the student could recall every word 25 years later.

One would think.

I didn't have a "history" class when I was 9. LOL!