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.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[Kimmers]

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

[DieHard the Hunter]

Ollie North testimony during Iran-Contra. Definitely.

[sauropod]

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

[fso301]

Meeting Isabelle

[americanophile]

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

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.

[LongElegantLegs]

Um...My birth.

[DCPatriot]

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

[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.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

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.

[Clemenza]

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."

[qam1]

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[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.

[Straight Vermonter]

Wow, I loved that album!

[Patrick1]

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

[pogo101]

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

[Clemenza]

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.

[JennysCool]

[wastedyears]

10/14/85 for me