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More facts of nature: All forest animals, to this very day, remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard that Bambi’s mother had been shot.

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I was down by the edge of the lake at the time. / I was just getting ready to cross the interstate. / I was in the glen, just finishing a new burrow when I got the news. / I was looking for crawdads in my favorite creek. / I was under a rock, getting ready to shed.

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  • 200ok
    3·
    16 days ago

    I had to check the publication date of this one. I assumed it was one of the newer ones, after 2001.

    I wonder if it’s referencing JFK?

    • calliope@retrolemmy.com
      3·
      16 days ago

      Yes, JFK would 100% be my assumption!

      “Where were you when you heard JFK was assassinated?” was the one I had always heard before 9/11. It had become kind of a meme by the 1980s or 90s.

      When 9/11 happened I was like “well now I know what that feels like.” The Columbine shooting comes to mind nowadays, but obviously that got overshadowed by 9/11.

      I actually even remember my mom telling me about how she heard about JFK, she was in grade school and they gathered all the kids for an assembly to tell them. That’s how common it was, we definitely talked about it when I was a kid!

    • MehBlahEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Its referencing Bambi’s mom dying as one of those deaths or disasters that leave a person with a vivid memory of where they were when it occurred. I’m sure anyone who remembers JFK being killed have a vivid memory of where they were. I have a vivid memory of many such things. I already mentioned Elvis but I also can remember plenty other such things vividly.

      Not the full list but I remember Challenger, Columbia, 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami which is the largest death of people in a single day of anyone alive before or after 2004. Its never mentioned here because it wasn’t real to my countrymen. I think that one is with me because I knew someone who was there at the time and it was several days before we found out they were okay.

      All the events mentioned above though I can tell you exactly where I was and for most part everyone I knew that was there.

      Its clear that 9/11 is your go to for this perfectly normal human reaction to a traumatic situation.