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Born in '79 so missed out on the Regan Revolution. But it was an interesting time being a little kid and going to elementary school in the 80's. In the time of movies like Rambo, Wargames and Red Dawn, etc. you had an acute sense of the Soviet threat.

I have this memory of drawing epic tank battles while in class and what was interesting is that I would draw a swastika on the tanks representing the Soviets, being too young to know the difference but intuitively making the link between that symbol (which as kids we knew was bad) and the Cold War rhetoric of the time.

Also reminds me of the time I was walking to school and I happened to see a US Army supply truck parked on the side of the road. Not having seen one before I came home and announced to the whole family that the Russians were coming and proceeded to set up trip wires in the yard.

So if 2014 is 1980 redux I'll be happy to see it. God I miss the 80's!

God I miss the 80's"

I was born in ‘82 so I only remember the tail end of his presidency. But a few years later when the Berlin Wall fell our teachers told us about that and what it meant. Same with the breakup of the USSR the following year.