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What Was The Most Important 1980's Historical Event That Changed Your Life?
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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.


TOPICS: History; Hobbies; Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 1980s; 80s; decadeofdecadence; genx; historicalevents; popculture; reagan; unitedstates
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

21 posted on 05/20/2008 3:42:41 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I found God, Rush and Regan......

I was a person that did not pay attention to what was happening in the world and thought the environment was really the most important thing to worry about ( liberal) to developing a relationship with Jesus and one day my friend Louise said I really need to listen to this guy (Rush) ....... I grew to love the Lord, love this country and love and respect the great men that formed this nation. Great idea for a post

22 posted on 05/20/2008 3:42:59 PM PDT by Kimmers
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Ollie North testimony during Iran-Contra. Definitely.


23 posted on 05/20/2008 3:43:55 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

It was probably Tianenman Square. That began my lifelong addiction to news and Talk Radio.


24 posted on 05/20/2008 3:44:24 PM PDT by sauropod (I'd rather be waterboarded than vote for Juan McCain)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Meeting Isabelle


25 posted on 05/20/2008 3:46:47 PM PDT by fso301
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”


26 posted on 05/20/2008 3:48:04 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: Danae
MTV influenced my life, too! I grew up in Puerto Rico, so MTV taught me to speak English, pop culture and the American way which I respect and adore to this day. My appreciation for 80's new wave punk rock began with 80's era MTV.

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27 posted on 05/20/2008 3:48:37 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Um...My birth.


28 posted on 05/20/2008 3:48:55 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (Kill them with kindness, then taser them for fun.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Aside from three of my children being born in the 80s, it would have to be Ronald Reagan’s winning two elections in landslides.


29 posted on 05/20/2008 3:48:55 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: americanophile

The fall of the Berlin Wall, in late ‘89, that signaled the imminent collapse of the Soviet Empire, has got to be the top historical moment.


30 posted on 05/20/2008 3:50:48 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Ah, yes. The day Ronaldus Magnus kicked Walter Mondale’s sorry rear end from Maine to California. That was one of my favorite moments in history, as well.

It was even better when he evicted Jimmy Carter’s sorry rear end from the WH in 1980.


31 posted on 05/20/2008 3:51:37 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
1984: Roberta Vasquez in Playboy contributes to my obesession with well-formed Latin women. I was eight, btw.

1986: Watching my Dem Socialist grandfather go through "Reagan Derangement Syndrome" while watching the Iran/Contra hearings.

1986: Watching the ball go through Bill Buckner's legs in Game Six, and seeing my Mets take the series the next day.

1987: Release of "Appetite for Destruction."

32 posted on 05/20/2008 3:52:24 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; qam1; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; m18436572; ...
Xer Ping

Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

Freep mail me to be added or dropped. See my home page for details and previous articles.

33 posted on 05/20/2008 3:52:53 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Satch was Steve Vai’s guitar teacher, and Vai taught Joe Scarolla, my guitar teacher on Lawn Guyland. So that makes me two degrees removed from Satriani.


34 posted on 05/20/2008 3:54:02 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Wow, I loved that album!


35 posted on 05/20/2008 3:54:18 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Clemenza

Watching Walter Cronkite near tears as he announced the 40th President of the United States would be Ronald Wilson Reagan.


36 posted on 05/20/2008 3:54:30 PM PDT by Patrick1
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Winning the Cold War — yet watching the Tienanmen Square Massacre that same year (1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell). Hope, but vigilance.


37 posted on 05/20/2008 3:55:06 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: americanophile; SilvieWaldorfMD

How can I forget! Hearing from my great aunts and uncles about the importance of the Solidarity movement (not having much of an understanding of politics at the time), and then, a few years later, seeing these same folks cheer when the iron curtain fell, and the REAL Polish Republic returned.


38 posted on 05/20/2008 3:56:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

39 posted on 05/20/2008 3:56:47 PM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

10/14/85 for me


40 posted on 05/20/2008 3:58:09 PM PDT by wastedyears (Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. - Optimus Prime)
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