
30 Years Ago Today
What were you doing 30 years ago? Where were you? Who were you with? I was living in Joplin, Missouri.
There are three collective-memory questions almost every baby boomer can quickly answer: Where were you when you heard JFK got shot? Where were you when you heard that planes hit the twin towers on 9/11? And, representing a mid-point between those two tragedies: Where you were when you heard John Lennon got killed?
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