Where were you when you heard the news today?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

At my bar review class I checked CNN.com on my cell phone three times; I read about his high fever, but not anything else. My friend and I got out of the class at 3:25 and went to our lockers in the student lounge, and some students were watching TV, which was showing St. Peter's Basilica. I asked a guy if the Pope was still hanging on, and he shook his head. Another student told me he'd died about half an hour earlier (she meant almost an hour, but that's okay).

I want to express my condolences to our Catholic DUers who are mourning today. I, too, am mourning, although I am Muslim. I am very sad at the loss of this man of peace, whom we need in these dark days more than ever. My heart is breaking today. God rest his very great soul.

[jjmalonejr]

1. Sitting in a barber shop, waiting my turn, and heard it on the TV

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. driving to radio shack

it was blurted out rather akwardly on the radio

[Radio_Lady]

3. Making the bed in the master bedroom -- same place I was --

when I heard that the towers had fallen 09/11/01, although I was half asleep at the time.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

4. There's a lesson here

Stop making your bed! :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

7. Right. However, I hate looking into bedrooms where the bed is not made.

I'm kind of a neat freak. Probably borderline OCD, who knows?

[candy]

10. To repeat another poster,stop making your bed,please!!!

I had a friend who receved personal bad news twice while she was mixing up a chocolate cake.

She never made a chocolate cake again.

[Radio_Lady]

11. Ew-w-w-w!

It's bad luck to be superstitious!

[candy]

23. I know---I'm not superstitious but my friend was.

[rockymountaindem]

5. I was sitting right here on DU.

Then I went to watch it on the CBC & CNN.

[Nikia]

20. I was too

I read it here.

[Melynn]

22. On DU with the TV on in my living room.

When I heard the news. This isn't jarring unexpected news so I don't think most people are going to remember where they when they heard the Pope died.

[kedrys]

6. Switching between channels and surfing the net from the couch

As much as I have a serious axe to grind with the Catholic Church, John Paul II was a servant of God with an almost incomprehensible burden on his shoulders, and he served with humility and unwavering faith.

[Ilsa]

8. Husband was surfing the TV. Came back to CNN as it was announced.

He told me as I was in the next room on DU!

[Mz Pip]

9. Talking on the phone

wishing my son a happy birthday. Heard it in the background on the TV.

Hmmmmmmm. My son's birthday is on the same day the Pope died. I'm sure someone will find something symbolic in that.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Radio_Lady]

12. My stepson was born on 9/11/58. n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. My brother's birthday is tomorrow

The Pope almost made it to April 3rd.

[Squatch]

14. I was at the Norfolk Gun Show

no shit. I felt dirty when I got home, especially after I heard the news.

I spent the afternoon looking at weapons of violence and symbols of hate (swastika, southern curios), while a man of peace was dying.

[oldlady]

15. sitting in a restaurant with

some children I'd just taken to a film festival. Two Catholics from Sudan, ages 5 & 7; one Catholic from Togo, age 8, two Pentecostals from Chicago, ages 7 & 11, and two pagans, both age 21. TV right next to our table.

peace

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

16. Thank you DTBK for your lovely and thoughtful post.

Pope John Paul II was a man of peace and I have no doubts that he was welcomed into the Kingdom of God along with all the other truly holy people throughout the ages.

Again, thank you...

[BigBearJohn]

17. Sitting on my patio drinking coffee with the radio on when suddenly... my

Corinthian bell chimes started being buffetted by the wind...
when I hear on the radio, "the Pope has died." Having my bell chimes
ring just at the moment of the announcement gave me chills from my head
to toes. Then I wept.

[bigwillq]

18. Sleeping in my room

Heard my mom and sis yell out "Oh, no, HE DIED!"

Then I woke up.

[n2mark]

19. Home

I knew his time was near when I heard the Pope asked for the last of the Stations of the Cross to be read to him. I knew he was aware his time was over. I felt within the next few hours he would not be here anymore.

[jmcon007]

21. cheating on my taxes