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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

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.


141 posted on 05/20/2008 9:24:45 PM PDT by sofaman (Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the one place in the ME with no oil.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I gotta shake my head and wonder,
Why she even bothers me:
For if heartaches were commercials,
we'd all be on TV.

-- John Prine
142 posted on 05/20/2008 10:44:45 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("We win, they lose," thank you Mr. Reagan, for just believing in your country.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

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.


143 posted on 05/20/2008 10:46:12 PM PDT by Impy (Obama, you are stupid and your wife smells.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


144 posted on 05/20/2008 10:51:03 PM PDT by Impy (Obama, you are stupid and your wife smells.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


145 posted on 05/20/2008 11:23:59 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I can’t see Larry McDonald EVER becoming a Soviet!

Ed


146 posted on 05/20/2008 11:30:13 PM PDT by Sir_Ed
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To: Sir_Ed; conservative cat

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).


147 posted on 05/21/2008 3:41:45 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


148 posted on 05/21/2008 4:03:31 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


149 posted on 05/21/2008 5:46:30 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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!!


150 posted on 05/21/2008 5:54:11 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
I would like a photo, thanks! We do cross displays at my church as well, on the Roe V Wade anniversary. Of course, January in Michigan means a lot of snow, so a field of white crosses loses some of its visual impact.

Thank you, again, for your prayers.

151 posted on 05/21/2008 6:10:02 AM PDT by grellis (By order of the Ingham County Sheriff this tag has been seized for nonpayment of taxes)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I was a 21 year old democRAT and Union Member in 80', and angry as hell watching the Iranian thugs get away with taking our embassy and fellow Americans.

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.

152 posted on 05/21/2008 7:14:27 AM PDT by lormand (Let's all be mavericks now)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


153 posted on 05/21/2008 7:26:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

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.


154 posted on 05/21/2008 7:27:51 AM PDT by cyclotic (Support Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: Clemenza
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.

Carry the tune, Clemenza! That album was remarkable for its time.

155 posted on 05/21/2008 7:31:54 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (In Memorium: Old Atlanta, 1945 - 2000, RIP)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Wow, I loved that album!

My two kids in college still play the album. I must have brainwashed them!

156 posted on 05/21/2008 7:33:07 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (In Memorium: Old Atlanta, 1945 - 2000, RIP)
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To: wastedyears
Looks like Joe Satch likes the wah pedal a lot.

On the YouTube link, there's a few more videos from the Alien album. Outstanding work. Quickest hands in history, imo.

157 posted on 05/21/2008 7:34:43 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (In Memorium: Old Atlanta, 1945 - 2000, RIP)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

My brother-in-law was one of the finalists for the ‘teacher in space’.


158 posted on 05/21/2008 7:53:59 AM PDT by the lastbestlady (I now believe that we have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live with after that.)
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To: Clemenza

at first i thought Bill Gates was Austin Powers on that cover... but i thought, “Austin Powers didn’t come out in the 80s...”


159 posted on 05/21/2008 7:56:27 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: the lastbestlady
My brother-in-law was one of the finalists for the ‘teacher in space’.

oh my goodness... that must have been strange...

160 posted on 05/21/2008 7:57:55 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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