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FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005
Posted on 06/30/2005 7:03:48 PM PDT by MoJo2001
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~ Flashback Friday ~ Year: 1985 |
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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 1985. |
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1985 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 1985? |
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Events that occurred in 1985
- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief.- January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term in office.
-February 1 - AM stereo broadcasting starts in Australia. -March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union. -March 20 - Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod dog sled race.
June 6 - The body of Josef Mengele is located and exhumed in Brazil. June 14 - TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Hezbollah. July 10 - The Greenpeace vessel, the Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents September 1 - A joint American-French expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic. October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.
December 27 - American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda. 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 |
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Entertainment/Sports Super Bowl XIX: San Francisco 49ers won 38-16 over the Miami Dolphins April 1 - Villanova University's "perfect upset" of Georgetown University and Patrick Ewing for the NCAA Basketball Championship. World Series: The Kansas City Royals defeat the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3, becoming the first team to come back from a 3 to 1 deficit to win a series in baseball February 8 - After 5-1/2 years, the television series The Dukes of Hazzard goes off the air. June - Alexey Pajitnov develops Tetris at the Moscow Academy of Science for the Electronica 60 computer. November - Microsoft releases the first version of Windows. The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in the U.S. |
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Hit Music From 1985 Wham - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Dire Straits - Money For Nothing Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls* USA For Africa - We Are The World Stevie Wonder - Part Time Lover New Edition - Cool It Now Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok Sade - Smooth Operator Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine Madonna - Dress You Up Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA The Time - Jungle Love* |
* denotes music that isn't suitable for children or Ma! |
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To: SevenofNine
Please, Seven, tell me that Hard Boiled is going away. Pleeeease????
421
posted on
06/30/2005 11:40:35 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: txradioguy; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; StarCMC; SouthernHawk; MoJo2001; Valin; HiJinx; beachn4fun; ..
Just got to see this story from Tuesday's taping.
DISCOM Deactivates
Camp Casey - SPC John Wollaston - AFN News
They kept the 2nd ID rolling for decades, but with the restructuring of the Army's Combat Divisions, the mission of the Division Support Command is going away.
For one final time, the guidons of the Division Support Command took to the field not to honor a soldier or a commander, but to say goodbye, to themselves. As part of the transformation of the Army into more flexible war fighting units, the brigade
known as the "Wagon Masters", cased its colors.
With the deactivation of the DISCOM, it's tenant units have been assigned to the newly formed brigade combat teams, making sustainment functions organic to the modular brigades.
422
posted on
07/01/2005 12:06:35 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thanks for the ping. Hubby will want to know about this. He'll start reminiscing, and I'll get to hear more about his time there. And maybe I can talk him into taking me to that nice Korean restaurant we recently found. Oh, it's a win-win situation all around.
423
posted on
07/01/2005 12:15:06 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri Schindler <strike>Schiavo</strike> - www.terrisfight.org)
To: BykrBayb; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Laurita
LOL!! Glad to be of help. So your hubby was in Korea, huh? Right now we have....
txradioguy at Camp Casey
Jet Jaguar at Osan AB
Laurita at Camp Walker
424
posted on
07/01/2005 12:21:39 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: SevenofNine
Whoa....a North Korean freighter with smack...lovely!
425
posted on
07/01/2005 12:25:01 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; Laurita
Thank you all for your service.
426
posted on
07/01/2005 12:29:09 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri Schindler <strike>Schiavo</strike> - www.terrisfight.org)
Duty ~ Honor ~ Country
Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"
427
posted on
07/01/2005 12:33:53 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Army Air Corps
Good night and rest well, AAC.
428
posted on
07/01/2005 12:35:13 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: BykrBayb
Thank you, Bill, for helping keep us free.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.
429
posted on
07/01/2005 12:38:33 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Old Sarge
Thanks, Sarge, and The Kids, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.
Temporary
430
posted on
07/01/2005 12:39:37 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: uncleshag
Thank you, Jay, (on the left) for helping keep us free. Prayers for your safety and success of mission.
YIKES, uncle.....traffic control in Baghdad is a tough job these days!!
431
posted on
07/01/2005 12:40:36 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Wow Kathy! Your dedications are always so nice.
432
posted on
07/01/2005 12:41:03 AM PDT
by
BykrBayb
(Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri Schindler <strike>Schiavo</strike> - www.terrisfight.org)
To: uncleshag
433
posted on
07/01/2005 12:42:51 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: BykrBayb
The subjects are important to me. We need to remember, every day, who it is who is out there doing their part to keep America free and safe.
434
posted on
07/01/2005 12:44:24 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: cbkaty; jdrgarland
And we thank our veterans for their service to America.
435
posted on
07/01/2005 12:45:34 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: blackie; USAF_TSgt; Old Sarge; darkwing104; Colonel_Flagg; E.G.C.; Cool Multiservice Soldier; ...
436
posted on
07/01/2005 12:46:46 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: txradioguy
Thanks, txradioguy, for your service to America.
Congrats on your afternoon drive radio show for your fellow soldiers.
437
posted on
07/01/2005 12:51:55 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: AirForceMom
Thank you, Jason (far right), for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.
438
posted on
07/01/2005 12:53:07 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: Its_me_K.E.T.; WVNan
Thank you, Brian, 3rd ACR, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.
439
posted on
07/01/2005 12:53:50 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
To: The Sailor; MoJo2001
440
posted on
07/01/2005 12:55:34 AM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ coming soon ~Operation Semper Fi ~a field hospital~)
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