FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday: 1991 ~ 24 June 2005

StarCMC;Kathy In Alaska;MoJo2001; The Canteen Crew

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1991

Welcome to Flashback Friday!
Each Friday we will take a journey back in time.
We will highlight a year and then you'll have the opportunity to give your thoughts, opinions, and stories.
This week we're jumping back to 1991.

1991 Questions!
We Want To Know

1. Were you in school?
2. Were you in the military?
3. What kind of music were you listening to?
4. What do you recall as the best memory from 1991?

Events that occurred in 1991

- January 16th, Operation Desert Storm begins

- February 4th, Baseball votes to ban Pete Rose

-February 27 - Gulf War: Kuwait is liberated, and a ceasefire is declared, after 100 hours of ground fighting. Iraq accepts the terms of the ceasefire, which call for the country to disarm.

-March 3
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the Soviet Union

-August
August 6 - Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the "World Wide Web."
August 8 - Collapse of Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built

August 18 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea. The putsch is led by eight high-ranking hard-liners, and will collapse in less than 72 hours.

August 20 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev

August 21 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union

August 24 - Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union

August 25 - Student Linus Torvalds post a messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

August 31 - Kyrgyzstan declares independence from the Soviet Union

December 25 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union

December 26 - Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union

December 31 - Soviet Union officially ceases to exist
 

Entertainment/Sports

Super Bowl XXV was played on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida. The New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20 to 19.

The Minnesota Twins won the World Series of the Atlanta Braves

 

Hit Music From 1991

Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up*

EMF - Unbelievable

Amy Grant - Baby, Baby

Boyz II Men - Motownphilly

Mariah Carey - Someday

Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You

Scorpions - Winds Of Changes

Marky Marky and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do I Do It For You

C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Extreme - More Than Words

Tesla - Signs

 

* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma!

 

 

[Soaring Feather]

LOL!!!

[EsmeraldaA]

LOL! My point exactly! That is so me!( The pic)

[Lady Jag]

Hangliding must give one a terrifically free feeling.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of the new thread

[Lady Jag]

Flagg Man, how the hello are you!?

[luvie]

You mean you didn't even miss me! Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

Hi! How are you and Chance this wonderful evening?

[JLO]

You are too much, MOJO!

I'll be here as long as my keyboard don't stick. Dang, my shift key is rather stuck. lol

Better than yesterday!

Storms/lightening/thunder. POWER OUT!

Northern MN - who would think we'd need AC? One week is all we need; and then it quits 1 of 7 days.


Hey JLO!
You going to be around tonight? Hope so!!
Great to see you!!

[luvie]

Yeah!!!! It's sorta me, too! Just wanna have fun!

[NYTexan]

Who are you again? LOL! Of course I did!

We are starvin'!, patiently waitin' for the delivery guy!

[trussell]

Hi Colonel!

[Colonel_Flagg]

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Hi!

[Colonel_Flagg]

LOL .. Dear Lady, I'm doing just fine. Waiting for the weekend to stay and hopefully never leave!

[SandRat]

abedaabedaabdedabebaaaa!!!!!!

[EsmeraldaA]

WHHHAAATTT??? LOL!

[2ndreconmarine]

Sorry I am late to the thread, MoJo.

2001 was a big year for me.

Started the year in Saudia Arabia. Went to Kuwait. Came back to Saudia Arabia and then back home to New Mexico.

I was with the 2nd Reconnnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Operation Desert Shield / Storm.

My son was born on February 15th. I received the Red Cross notification the day before we went into combat in the ground war. I can still remember standing at my HUMWWV, writing my Op Order when the Battalion SGT Major gave it to me.

I saw him for the first time in May, when I returned.

A wild time and some pretty vivid memories.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Catching up....

Never too late. Glad you dropped by to share your "big year". Thanks, 2ndrecon, for your service to America. You do your son, and all of us proud.