[Joe 6-pack]

"One of the greatest triumphs in American sports."

After the withdrawal from Vietnam, Watergate, Carter Malaise, and Iran hostage crisis Americans were feeling pretty broken by 1979. The "Miracle on Ice," was a huge shot in the arm that lifted the spirits of many, as did the election of Reagan in 1980 and the STS-1 Shuttle Mission in the spring of 1981. I was still a kid, but I'll always remember how those three things energized me and my friends and my parents.

[Mears]

The 70s also had the best music and the worst clothes.

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[cnsmom]

It was awesome for America.

[Ciaphas Cain]

The "Miracle on Ice," was a huge shot in the arm that lifted the spirits of many, as did the election of Reagan in 1980 and the STS-1 Shuttle Mission in the spring of 1981. I was still a kid, but I'll always remember how those three things energized me and my friends and my parents.

I was too young to have cared about the whys (I was five during those Olympics) but even then, there was something so different between the start of the Reagan years, and what we had come out of. It was a helluva grand bang-up way to start out one's real childhood.

[RC one]

Yup, I think I must have some dust in my eyes or something.

[SamAdams76]

I remember that very well from 1980. I was in my senior year of high school and had just joined the Marine Corps on the delayed enlistment program.

I lived in Revere, MA at the time and remember going to Winthrop, MA to see the parade for Mike Eruzione. This was of course the year that Ronald Reagan was elected president but at that time, it was not a sure thing.