Where were you when you heard the Gulf War of 1991 started?

[Dodie]

I was playing pool with a guy I was dating at the time, in a pretty large pub-type bar.

It was amazing how everything just STOPPED. People stopped eating, stopped playing pool, stopped throwing darts, even stopped DRINKING. All of the televisions were set to CNN immediately.

 

[Sonya]

I was stuck at work with 2 friends on the night shift. We were very freaked out and didn't have access to a TV, we just turned a little radio up and listened all night.

 

[beccab]

I was outside trying to get my car off an icy patch. The car was really stuck. Two people stopped to help to no avail. The third one was DFIL who finally got it dug out by putting a rug under the tires. Also, trying to get supper done w/three little ones waiting. I really wanted to just sit down & watch the news reports.

It's one of those events you will always remember what you were doing when... like the day JFK was killed or the day the lights went out on the East coast.

 

[BarbN.]

DH was in the desert, DS (then 27 months)and I stayed in Germany. I was sleeping and I believe it was around 30 minutes after midnight and my DH's Mother called from the states. All she said when I answered was "it's started" and I said thanks and went downstairs to turn on AFN(armed forces network) unfortunately it was off the air, so I ended up watching German t.v. and tried to listen to Pres. Bush speak over the German translations. I called other wives, hugged our son, and listened as soldiers that were doing rear support got into their cars and headed into post. I still get chills when I think about that phone call.

 

[TraceyL]

Working in the Ministry of Defence, Whitehall in London.

 

[tkyes]

No Blueberry - I've been in MN all my life


These are so sad to hear. One of those things you never forget.


Tamie

 

[elgerber]

I was watching my tape of All My Children and General Hospital and when I pushed stop on the VCR I saw someone standing on the roof of a building with stuff flying in the sky behind them. I was quite shocked.

Erika

 

[Mattsmom]

I was in the hospital. Youngest DS was born Jan. 13, 1991. My Dr. was concerned he might be called up. Thankfully he wasn't.

 

[ColoradoBuffaloMom]

I was pregnant with my son who was born March 11, 1991. My daughter was 18 months old and I remember thinking what kind of world was it going to be for my babies. Desert Storm ended right before my son was born.

 

[bsnyder]

I don't remember the exact start of the war, but I do remember listening on the radio every day at work. I had just started my first job after finishing college (at the ripe old age of 30!). I was in a management training program at a local bank, and spent the first 3 months hauling files from the basement vault to the 26th floor for a regulatory exam.

And I remember Wolf Blitzer reporting on CNN every night!

 

[WDWLVR]

I was newly married and living in an apartment. DH was out with his friends that night and my biggest fear was that they would end up getting drafted. It didn't happen, but the start of the war was still very emotional for me.

 

[pat fan]

Not to make light of it, but does anyone else remember the "Scud Stud" ? Wonder whatever happened to him

 

[Pin Wizard]

I have no clue when I first heard about it. But I do remember seeing the air strikes. That amazed me.

 

[Michelle]

I was newly married to an active duty naval officer who thankfully at the time was in department head school, and not deployed.

 

[PRINCESS VIJA]

My friend and I were out driving and saw a guy selling newspapers on the side of the road with the title of WAR. We went to my then fiance's apartment (now DH ) and folded our wedding invitations. An odd night for sure.

 

[vicnmickey]

I was stationed in Norfolk VA. I remember my Captain coming in and stating the war had started, but we already knew because we had heard it on one of our secure radio's.


God Bless Our Troops, our thoughts and prayers are with you!

 

[GeorgeY]

I was at EPCOT Center. I was attending the University of Central Florida, and on nights when my GF was in class and I didn't have any work to do, I would go over there. It was in the old communicore where they had the Person of the Century poll. They had these TVs where you picked up a phone and could hear the broadcast. There were so many people and CMs just standing there and watching. I watched for a while, then went home to be with my GF, when she got there since her brother was a member of the 82nd Airborne and we knew he was there.

George

 

[Kirby]

I was sitting in our lounge chair, very pregnant and very tired from working all day. My husband says I was grouchy too but I don't remember that. Our daughter was born early the next morning.

 

[Nancy]

At a Sabres hockey game. Someone came into our section and said the bombing has started and a large amount went to the bar area and watched the TV's. I knew it was going to start, we heard all the talk on the radios on our drive down to the Aud, but it was still a huge shock. My BIL (not even known by my sister at that time) was in a sub in during the war.

One of the first casualty of the war was a young man who lived just down the street from us.

Isn't it strange to think that at that time CNN was "the" news channel...now there are so many to watch.

 

[apagano]

I was working as a Production Assistant at the radio broadcast of the 1991 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC. They interrupted the ceremony for President Bush's spech announcing the start of the bombing campaign. When he was done, the crowd, made up mostly of music industry types, roared in applause. The country was nearly unanimous in support of the first Gulf War.