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

Self (somewhat) ^

[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.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

My favorite and most memorable moment was this one:

I was a freshman in college in 1984, and this landslide victory made me realize that, in fact, we are really THE GREATEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

For your ping list.

[FReepaholic]

Jimmuh Catah. The last time I voted Dem.

[gridlock]

Probably the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut. You just knew that we were in for a long fight there.

[Rebelbase]

I married my now ex wife.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Historical Ping (I thought you’d be interested)....

[elcid1970]

I met my lovely wife in 1980. She walks in the halls of Heaven now, but no one changed my life so much as she.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Joe Satriani issued Surfin With the Alien.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I married my now ex wife.

HA! +1

[Michael.SF.]

Does that come under the heading of: Taking the good, with the bad?

;)

[xcamel]

Reagan, and Marrying my (still) Wife.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

When this guy died in 1983 (Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov) the USSR went through dramatic political changes, starting with Gorbachev and then Yeltsin -- culminating in the end of Communism of the Soviet Era.

Thank you, President Reagan!

[CAluvdubya]

The day President Reagan was shot. I sat in front of the tv all day with a teething baby. (that baby grew up to love Reagan!)

[jongaltsr]

I heard Rush Limbaugh for the first time.

My first reaction was that he was just another political blowhard but that evening a little bell went off in my brain and next day I tuned in again.

After a couple of days the light came on and I came to the conclusion that he was just telling me the core beleifs that I had forgotten because I had become lazy after returning from VietNam.

I had quit fighting the media drum beat and accepted the standard liberal mantra but hidden in the recesses of my brain was the truth and he set me free to think for myself once more.

[MarineBrat]

I think the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was the biggest punch in the gut to me.

[mass55th]

I don’t know about any historical events, but personal events that started with a divorce in ‘79, raising two sons by myself, and a new career in 1980 changed my life, and my political outlook.

[Bon mots]

[rabidralph]

I became a citizen in ‘87 and realized how blessed I was to be in raised in the greatest country on the face of the Earth!

[dfwgator]

The emergence of Solidarity in Poland, woke me up to politics, and led me to gain a greater appreciation for the land of my ancestors.

[Danae]

I am sorry.... I have to admit this.... MTV.

*crawls under desk rapidly sucking thumb*

OK Just kidding. I Graduated High school. So there.