So, where were you on July 29, 1981? I was vacationing with my parents and two brothers in Orlando on the second of our action-packed family trips away from our home in St. Croix to some new and wondrous place called Disney World. Somewhere around four or five o’clock that morning, Mom and Dad made sure us kids got up to watch TV. Must-see TV events were few and far between in those days, but my parents stressed that the morning’s programming was of historical importance; one of those events that we’d always remember where we were when it happened.
And so it was that all of us huddled around a small TV in the equally small room we shared at a roadside Holiday Inn to join 750 million people around the world in watching the royal wedding of Charles and Diana.