Posted on 05/20/2008 3:27:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
What 1980's event helped re-shape your life, thoughts, person and/or change your focus and outlook on life?
You can answer as many times as you desire.
The fall of the Berlin wall. I was in Germany in the late 80s and in ‘90. Most of the older West Germans I met did not like the Easterners coming over. The younger people seemed more optimistic. I remember watching the Scorpions perform at the Moscow Music Peace Festival on TV while at a German friend’s house. Supposedly, it inspired them to write “Wind of Change.”
Oh my gosh, yes- the Olympics! My grandparents lived in LA and brought us stuffed Sam the American Eagles! I later heard from someone that met her that MLR was not friendly at all. LOL.
I had never heard that. Off to Google!
For the country the biggest mistakes; amnesty, social security reform, Jimmy Carter. All three are haunting us now.
LOL, LETS HAVE A WAR!!!!
Let me know what you think. I’ve read a lot of stuff on this, through Google, and have viewed documentaries on this, through YouTube. It is all very interesting and intriguing.
It makes you think.....
Refresh your memory:
Click on the year at the top to change the headlines:
http://www.1980sflashback.com/1980/News.asp
You, and your baby will be remembered in our prayers Thurs. night. If I can, I’ll get a photo of the crosses and e-mail you or do you just need to try to forget this? God bless.
The book- The Third World War: August 1985, by General Sir John Hackett. It was entirely fictional, but it seemed to ignite the problems of the East-West schism in Europe. I was on border duty patrolling the Czechoslovakian/West German border at the time.
However, in 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and shortly afterwards the Soviet Union. The main effect in the US was a massive downsizing of Defense Contractors and massive cancellation of contracts. I lost my job because of this, and was not able to get another one for years.
1980 was a busy year for me. :-)
The seminal event of the 1980s was the taking of the US Embassy hostages in Teheran, Iran in Nov. 1979. The hostage crisis lasted throughout the entire year of 1980, lasting until Reagan took office on Jan. 20, 1981.
We endured 444 humiliating days as a country, made even worse by the failed rescue attempt in the spring of 1980.
Jimmy Carter’s failure as a President ushered in Ronald Reagan, who had been groomed by God for this moment in American and world history.
Had Reagan not been elected President, the Soviet Union and the Cold War would have survived for many more years. Even an assassination attempt did not stop Reagan.
His destiny, to defeat the godless Soviet Union, became our destiny as a nation.
That decade long quest defined as a nation and changed all of our lives, and the lives of hundreds of millions of other people.
Thanks to one man, his faith, and God.
My sister cried and cried when Rick Allen from Def Leppard had his accident (1984).
Me, too. I remember exactly where I was when I heard about it. I remember watching the first shuttle launch and landing in the 6th grade. They brought in a T.V. for us.
Now, I have my 4 and 1/2 year-old son watching shuttle launches on You Tube and we're headed out in a few weeks to launch some rockets with a local chapter - Albuquerque Rocket Society.
I am far from perfect and my list of imperfections are numerous but I am a work in progress and I know there is someone greater and stronger to protect me and lift me up in my darkest hour.
Getting a new pair of dentures.
House Music and other forms of dance music! :)
Winning the Drum Corps Associates Championship with the Hawthorne Caballeros in 1984 and 1985, going undefeated for 2 years.
Bill
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