Where Were You In 1976?

Me

[HungarianGypsy]

I was probably just done with potty training. First election I remember is 1980 when that nice looking man beat that scary looking old man.

[HungarianGypsy]

I was probably just done with potty training. First election I remember is 1980 when that nice looking man beat that scary looking old man.

[Just another Joe]

I was a senior in high school, and I voted for Ford.
Felt pretty bad when he lost. Knew Carter had nothing for brains but peanuts.

[Busywhiskers]

I was defending the free world from communist oppression.

[WildTurkey]

With Kerry up a river in Cambodia. Uh, wrong year.

[azhenfud]

Back in the Olden Days, I was breaking my teachers' hearts by graduizing High school.

[Constitution Day]

In the fall of '76, I was six years old and, at the time, more concerned with my GI Joes, Lego, Hot Wheels and bicycle.

:)

[UsnDadof8]

I don't remember anything about Ft Eustis from my youth. I was 2 years old when my dad retired. But it is strange to come back to the area I was born. I remember the day when I was on base there and I passed by McDonald Army Hospital where I was born. Strange feeling. Now that I've lived here for 14 years I don't really desire to leave the area when I retire. Virginia is a great place imo, although if I were to ever leave it the only place I would go is Texas ...

Go Thelma Drake and Winsome Sears !!!

[RightWhale]

In 1976 I was somewhere in the Brooks Range working on building the TransAlaska Pipeline. 60 below zero. 85 below zero. Wolves howling from valley to valley, aurora dancing overhead.

[Sadie789]

This was a nightmare, I remember voting for Ford just for Ford to give us a slap in the face. My husband a Vietnam Era veteran was spit on and called a baby killer, while Ford brought home Vietnam refugees by the thousands and gave them everything on a silver platter. It was sickening not only Ford but the American people were welcoming these people better than they were welcoming home the Vietnam veterans.

These refugees were even given a voucher to pick up a car. I know because my cousin took a Vietnamese refugee to pick up his car and guess what...he picked up a brand new car and our government paid for half.

Back then both Ford and Carter were our worst nightmare.

[ladtx]

I was an instructor pilot in the UH-1 "Huey", teaching aircraft transition and tactics at the Army Aviation School at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Preparing to go to the CH-47 transition enroute to the 271st ASH Co at Camp Humphries South Korea. I had no inkling of how the U.S. Army was about to become a "hollow" force because of Carter.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

In 1976 I had just become a grandma and discovered I was going to get to raise the tyke. She was 6 mos old when her mother brought her to me and left. I remember Jimmy. In 1976 I drove the tyke and myself to CA in an attempt to get her near her mother. THe price of gas was very high, but the real problem wss the shortage. You couldn't get gas wthout queing up for an hour. We had a fun drive. Life in CA is interesting. The state is beautiful. 17 years later after Jimmah's defeat, and Ronald's win over the evil empire I returned to Florida,just to have hurricane Andrew slam into me, and in time to vote oonce more after 4 mor hurricanes slam into me, in 2004, and whatch the Dems melt down, now I get to vote once more for GW Bush and watch the Dems melt down.

[avg_freeper]

"I wasnt alive. :)"

So I guess you tended to vote Democrat.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

In the Army and didn't have a clue about politics at the time.

[Born in a Rage]

I was 10, about the only thing I knew about Carter back then was that he was a peanut farmer and had a brother who liked beer (Billy Beer).

[Lando Lincoln]

I was in the Sawtooth Mountain Range of south central Idaho on a geological mapping project for my senior year in college. Listening to the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac (I thought Stevie Nicks was kinda kooky but HOT!!) Had the time of my life - actually was nicknamed "Grizz" (that memory was almost forgotten until now). Anyway, I voted for Nixon in '72 and then Ford in '76. Most of my college mates couldn't believe it. I remember engaging a fifty-something supporter of Carter and telling him that Carter would screw up everything. What prescience!!!

Lando

[Conservative4Ever]

Watching the returns and saying 'Oh Crap'

Red

[OldSgt.]

"MCRD San Diego. Then to MCAS Millington."

Then you Sir, were on a road well traveled!! Except, wasn't it NAS Millington. It was a Naval air station when I went through there in 70.

[f zero]

Slept on the hood of a taxi while we were stuck in massive DC gridlock after the bicentennial fireworks. It took hours and hours to get back to Burk, VA. I was only in 2nd grade.

Spent the summer in northern VA
To this day I start to twitch when I hear the word Smithsonian.

P.S. Don't believe pettifogger if she says I am her OLDER brother :)

[KPfromDerryNH]

In '76 I remember hearing about a presidential race on the radio (the one I had just recently learned didn't have tiny people living in it) and I thought it must be something like the Boston Marathon. I remember a big bonfire at the high school that was really warm even from accross the football field. I was on my fathers shoulders the night we went to see it. He was serving on the USS Edison back then, now that ship is a museum in New York.