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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.
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.