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Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:03:23 AM

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I may be dating myself, but I was in the service, driving home for a long leave. I remember driving through kentucky when the news came on the radio. Surprisingly, this date has stuck in my head for all these years.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:23:45 AM

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edited because its the wrong account

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:25:14 AM

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not the slightest idea, however I do remember where I was when I heard about Lennon

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:41:40 AM

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Elvis is dead?

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:45:23 AM

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I was at work, waiting tables at a little cafe in town. I remember walking into the kitchen and the cook was crying ( Elvis fantatic) and asked what was wrong.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 8:49:37 AM

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I was a child. The only reason I knew he died is because my aunt had been visitng at the time and was one of
his biggest fans. It was devastating for her.

She has aged nicely now, he isn't the sort of icon he once was to her.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 9:22:09 AM

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1977 - I was one year old

However, when I was 14 and in high school and fretting over what to write about in my term paper, I was looking through some old photos my mom gave me and found one of my grandmother at like 12 years old playing in a back yard near a chicken coop with a few *young* ums. I took the photo to my grandmother and discovered that my grandmother's maiden name was in fact Presley and that she remembered babysitting Elvis when he was very young. They were cousins, he grew up in Tupelo, MS and my grandmother was from Batesville, MS an hour west. She showed me all sorts of very cool stuff from her childhood and also her "invitation" and memories she had brought home from his funeral. I sat with her and listened to some old LPs and when I went home wrote my term paper on "Elvis, famous and family." and based most of it on the oral memories of my grandmother. I still have that paper somewhere! LOL I don't remember even really being interested in Elvis before 14, but became a fan of his music that very day.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 9:28:14 AM

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With my mom and dad, just about ready to sit down to a spaghetti dinner. My mom was a huge fan. My dad had heard about it on the radio on his way home, but knowing my mom would be devestated, wanted to get through dinner before telling her. Our next door neighbor started calling to my mom from her backyard deck (oh the joys of suburbia) and told her the news...my poor mom spent the rest of the night crying...

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 9:36:17 AM

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I was 14. I was in the livingroom of this very house. It came on TV and I yelled for Mom. My best friend's mom was a total Elvis freak, more so than my mom. They were in the grocery store. She was still crying when she picked me up for school the next day.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 9:54:32 AM

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I thought Elvis was alive and well. He was spotted on a piece of toast out in Omaha just last month.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 9:59:29 AM

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I think, I was in my mother's ovaries....well, half of me was...

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 10:02:53 AM

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I thought Elvis was alive and well. He was spotted on a piece of toast out in Omaha just last month.

LOL

No one in my family cared about Elvis. In 1977 (I was 11) I was more concerned about my Dad moving out, my dog being put to sleep, my best friend moving to Michigan, and my sister running away from home. Tough year, but had nothing to do with Elvis.

We're all happy now though, even without Elvis

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 10:54:27 AM

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I was 11 and I remember that it was the first time I had ever seen my mother cry. She was devastated. I think my first real awareness of his music came from the days that followed and hearing his music everywhere we went and my mother playing his records at home.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:04:26 AM

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I was a always a Beatles fan and didn't really care for Elvis. I was driving with my boyfriend in the car on the way to go kick back with his sister and we heard it on the radio.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:05:24 AM

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I can't remember but I remember being surprised he was only 42. To my generation it felt like he belonged to the previous century.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:06:32 AM

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Elvis is NOT dead, he just went home.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:10:46 AM

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I sort of doubt I was conceived by then.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:18:27 AM

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ORIGINAL: Sinergy

Elvis is dead?

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Here is the news story:

Elvis Presley • 1935-2007

Elvis Presley, the man who jump-started the rock-and-roll revolution from a tiny Memphis recording studio in 1954 and went on to become the world's most recognizable entertainer, died Monday, August 6th, of cardiac arrest, at his Horn Lake, Mississippi, home. He was 72 years old.

http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A31951

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:32:11 AM

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I do not know what event in this generation that you could equivocate to this event. I never listened to one of his records or paid to see one of his movies or sat through one of his TV specials. To be able to remember with such vividness an event that happened 30 years ago must be some type of testament.

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RE: Where were you when you heard Elvis was dead - 8/16/2007 11:36:51 AM

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No idea - though I do remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot and I was very young then.

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