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!

 

 

[laurenmarlowe]

U.S. 7th Fleet Band Crosses Language Barrier with Music

Release Date: 6/23/2005 11:10:00 AM

By Chief Journalist Melinda Larson, Commander, Destroyer
Squadron 1 Public Affairs

SATTAHIP, Thailand (NNS) -- Musicians from the U.S. 7th Fleet Band "Orient Express" and Royal Thai Marine Corps (RTMC) came together for a series of performances June 20-22 during the Thailand phase of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT).

The two bands practiced with the RTMC band before performing separately and then together as a group at the Thai Austrian Technical College and the Singsamut Elementary School in nearby Pattaya.

“Music crosses all language barriers. We’re speaking the same language through our music,” said Musician 1st Class Alex Gowland, Orient Express’ unit leader.

Playing popular jazz, blues, and rock songs together, Orient Express musicians were challenged by the Thai tunes.

The rest of the story

[HiJinx]

Good to see you made it back in one piece.

5 members showed, eh? That's great. At least three of them are putting on a shotgun skills and safety clinic for middle-school and high-school aged kids tomorrow at the Sportsmen's Center on post.

[AZamericonnie]

Washington Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Bradford Mingle, in the blue cap, was serving in the Joint Visitors Bureau's Protective Services Detail in Afghanistan on Father's Day while his daughter, Washington Army Guard Spc. Jessica Mingle was serving in Iraq. Mingle's wife Karen and son Leonard are also Army Guard Soldiers in, respectively, Washington and Pennsylvania. U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Bob Haskell.

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24, 2005 — He was in Afghanistan. His daughter was in Iraq. His son was in Pennsylvania. His wife was holding down the family home in the state of Washington. It was not your typical Father's Day for Washington Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Bradford Mingle.

There was, however, an important tie that binds this Mingle family of four from Puyallup, Wash. They are all soldiers in the Army National Guard, and they are all committed to the global war on terrorism.

So Bradford Mingle had many reasons to be proud of his far-flung family and the organization they were serving at home and in two combat zones on the third Sunday in June.

“We all believe in what we're doing,” said Mingle a few days before fathers throughout America observed their day with special breakfasts or barbecues.

The rest of the story...

[cbkaty]

Cool is good....a complement from the master....Thanks.

[EsmeraldaA]

OK, I deserve a Burka today!!

[EsmeraldaA]

Hiya Bethy!...I'm slower than usual...bare with me, ok?

[SevenofNine]

Rack itttt

OH MAN we having some trouble here in SO CAL news report off police involving shooting perp just shot and seriously wounded LA Deputy sheriff in Hawaiian Garden

[laurenmarlowe]

Great story about the Mingle family serving our Country, thanks!

[SandRat]

Yep they talked about that but the group of kids we have are too young. Did tell one of the crew about the Camporee with 11-18 year olds that we'll have on Oct 8th at the Bisbee Municipal Airfield and that may be something to have a booth at.

[Soaring Feather]

Hiya Bethy!...I'm slower than usual...bare with me, ok?

Sure will Esmeralda, but I am bentfeather.

[Kathy in Alaska]

5 O'clock Somewhere

[AZamericonnie]

Music is the "universal language" Lauren! What a neat story.

[HiJinx]

That might work well...need to think about it.

[EsmeraldaA]

Hello Ma!...again HEHEEE!

[Kathy in Alaska]

ES.....did you have a good Friday? Do you need more chicken soup? I'm still working. Been a loooooooooooooooooooooooong day!

[SevenofNine]

Breaking news off BBC wire Iran has just elect that hardline leader that I told you about as new President

Developing.....

[HiJinx]

Mmmm...pizza's coming out of the oven, now.
See everyone a little later...

[ValerieUSA]

I'm a master?? That sounds so .. macho. :)

[EsmeraldaA]

LOL!! See my point?? SORRY bentfeather!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Cool shot of the "planes".