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    Posted: October 12 2005 at 14:42
Coming up on the 25th anniversary of that fateful day. Thought you'd like to share your memories.


Me, I was 23 at the time sitting in a barracks at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Wisconsin. Also known as bootcamp. Our Company Commander came in on the morning of Dec 9th and ordered us to attention and announced that John Lennon had been shot and killed. Naturally most of us freaked out, but only so much. When you're in bootcamp, you don't think about things like this too much.

It wasn't 'til after I got out of bootcamp in Jan that it really started to sink in. I was transferred to Orlando and was sitting in a bar one night and Imagine was playing and then it just hit me like a freight train and started blubbering like a little kid. The barmaid looked at me and came up and said "You're not the first when we play that song".



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I think for our generation this is our Kennedy assassination,we all know exactly what we were doing when hearing that news.

I was 14 at the time,and since Lennon was killed late in the evening,I woke up and was getting ready to go to school and my Mom knocked on the door and told me to turn on the Today show,they were reporting that John Lennon had been shot and killed.

After hearing the news my legs literally turned to water and I just sort of sat down on my bed,trying to take it all in.It is one of the few celebrity deaths that brought me to tears.

I spent that evening on a huge Beatles listening binge,and took a lot of bong hits.


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I was 5 years old at that time ... too young to really realise what was happening.

I guess I will always remember the day Dime was shot though.
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Points: 2546 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2005 at 15:39
I cannot remember exactly where I was at the time but I do remember being in shock that one of the fab four had been taken from us in such a brutal fashion.

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I was aged 13 and at school. It didn't hit me that badly, but a friend who
was a mad Beatles fan was terribly upset. I was more affected when I
heard about the death of Jerry Garcia in 1995.
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9/11 was more traumatic for me
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I was eleven, and it didn't touch me that much, to be honest, but the reaction of my brother, who is ten years older than I am, was pretty impressive. He was really shocked.


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I was a high school senior in Kansas, and didn't find out what had happened until the next day.  In drama class our teacher was crying, and we spent the hour sitting around in the dark listening to the White Album.  During 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps', everybody did...
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I wasn't alive at the time. But John Lennon will always remain one of my favorite musicians/artists ever.
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I wasn't born at all, but my father told me he was at the work, when somebody said "One of the beatles is dead", and he asked "who?", the answer (not to my surprise): "Paul McCartney". My father was a big Beatles fan (however, I'm not, Lennon to me was nothing but a bad musician, so I'd be indifferent) and he was shocked. He went home and realized Lennon was the one. Then he got more shocked yet.

BUT I can measure the impact to a Beatles' fan utilizing the Dime's assassination. I almost cried that day...
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I was 19 at the time and was just getting ready for work when my Mum called upstairs "John Lennon's been shot". I wore a black tie to work that day.
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I was probably playing at the sandbox with other kids...
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Points: 12814 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2005 at 12:52
Al Khobar in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, and remember being shocked by it - hit me much harder than Kennedy's assassination and certainly meant more than Elvis dropping dead on his Graceland's loo.
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Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2005 at 16:25

I was 15 and I wasn't shocked at all, although I really liked the Beatles since I was a kid. I guess I was more into Paul McCartney / Wings and George Harrison at the time, and I was too young that it would make a big impression.

I remember a newsflash vividly though: there was a lady on the TV who said: "Let's freeze him for the world" , so trying to get him mummified in a way. We talked about it at school, and I remember that a friend of mine thought it was really hilarious. Only years later I realised what Lennon meant to a lot of people.
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Points: 319 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2005 at 15:29
I was not born...But it is bizarre to see how many lives were changed after that tragic incident... I don't think any artist of my generation(I am 17) would do the same reaction in people's mind.
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Points: 19 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2005 at 17:13
I was 20 then but NOT  a fan of his, still not. Stevie ray hit me hards though.
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Points: 7374 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2005 at 17:41
I was -8 years old.
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Points: 16535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2005 at 20:25
^ I wasn't even existing in my mom's stomach!
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Points: 1695 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 15 2005 at 23:33
Originally posted by texasron texasron wrote:

I was 20 then but NOT  a fan of his, still not. Stevie ray hit me hards though.

Looking at your user name, I can see why. And I miss Stevie too. He was great!
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Points: 28270 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 23 2005 at 18:51
I was in digs in Nottingham.My Landlady informed me that John lennon was dead...folowed by ''I never liked him anyway''
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