Some have said, for our generation, the murder of John Lennon was the equivalent of the Boomers' memory of JFK's assassination; in that you remembered exactly where you were when it happened...

I was a month old when JFK got shot in 1963.

I walked into early-morning choir practice that December day in 1980 to see my friends sitting there looking depressed and when they told me what had happened I honestly thought they were joking...

I think for the Gen-Xers it was the death of Kurt Cobain...

I remember nightmares about nuclear war all through college (thanks to President Reagan).

I remember seeing a screening of the film "Giant" at the University of Rochester in 1986 and many in the audience laughing and sniggering whenever Rock Hudson said anything that could possibly be construed as homoerotic...

I remember going into a record shop that same year and seeing a Jefferson Starship album by the counter and asking the kid who worked there if they had any Airplane albums and he said "who?" and I said "Jefferson Airplane" and he said "who's that?"

I remember the biggest TV events were the last episode of M*A*S*H and when the characters on "Moonlighting" finally got it on and when two men were shown in bed together on "Thirtysomething" and a bunch of advertisers pulled out (so to speak)...

I remember doing Ecstasy when it came in a powder and you licked it off your hand...

I remember my first rock concert: Ozzy Osbourne!

I remember my first album I bought with my allowance: The Captain and Tennille!

I remember having my ears pierced at home with a needle and thread and an ice cube...

I remember getting red, white and blue sprinkles on my ice cream cone the summer of 1976...

I remember my favorite album in high school: Songs From the Wood

I remember a book that changed my life at 17: Atlas Shrugged

I remember when the "worst" sexually-transmitted disease out there was herpes...cus it was incurable and never went away...

I remember when people drove their cars without feeling the need to talk on the phone.