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.
sorry kiddo...only just got back to the computer. I speak Afrikaans, yes, however, my native tongue is English. I grew up in a bilingual area so I had to speak both languages.
Tony Blair came to my high school in 99. I remember his remarks where amusing but I was up in the balcony of the auditorium and could barley make him out.
I’d have to say when I started kindergarten. 10 years of being chained to a school desk began.
Or there was the ‘88 Dem convention. My first political memory. I was not yet 5 and liked the F word. My mother didn’t mind my saying F888 Dukakis.
On a personal level, in that time I met the first boy I would fall in love with and lose. I didn’t realize until many years later how much of an effect that boy had on every aspect of my life. The worst is, I will probably always love him.
I can’t see Larry McDonald EVER becoming a Soviet!
Ed
Some conspiracy theorists (NOT ME!) believe this. However, also they believe that McDonald was taken to the Gulags for a llifetime of hard labor.
Let me specify that I do not believe KAL007 was forced down. I believe that it was shot down on Sept. 1, 1983 and all on board died.
My personal opinion on the matter of all these ‘theories’ is that, anyone can pay a former Soviet operative (possibly poor and with a dismal pension plan) $50 and come out with a delicious story, suited to their own agenda (like the www.rescue007.org folks).
The Soviet shootdown of Flight 007 and Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada which opened my young eyes to the Soviet threat that was confronting this Nation at the time.
For me, the Challenger explosion. Not just on the personal tragedy level, but because I was working Shuttle mission support at the time, and that work (including my job) was going through a contract transition at the time.
Changed the trajectory of my career. Changed my life.
Thanks for this thread. Looking back, the 1980’s were formative for me:
Iranian Hostage Crisis spans the entire year— weak Carter
Election and attempted assasination of President Reagan— an era begins
My marriage in 1983
Leave teaching and attend law school— 1985-1988
Challenger explosion
Grenada
“Tear down this wall” !!!!!
What a decade!!
Thank you, again, for your prayers.
One day, I read a Ronald Reagan quote that was the headline in our local newspaper, "I will not negotiate with barbarians", right before the 80' elections.
It was a defining moment in my political evolution.
Watching military thugs with artillery, wearing masks, storm a private American residence and steal a small child, Elian Gonzales. I sat in front of the TV and sobbed, not believing this could be happening in our country.
For my first Presidential election in 1984, I forgot to file absentee when I was in college. I skipped out on school for the day, asked a friend if she wanted to ride along with me and can proudly say that I drove 400 miles to vote for Ronald Reagan.
As a bonus, I ended up marrying the girl who came on the ride.
Carry the tune, Clemenza! That album was remarkable for its time.
My two kids in college still play the album. I must have brainwashed them!
On the YouTube link, there's a few more videos from the Alien album. Outstanding work. Quickest hands in history, imo.
My brother-in-law was one of the finalists for the ‘teacher in space’.
at first i thought Bill Gates was Austin Powers on that cover... but i thought, “Austin Powers didn’t come out in the 80s...”
oh my goodness... that must have been strange...
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