FReeper Canteen ~ Flashback Friday 1985 ~ 01 July 2005

[MoJo2001]

 

 

~ Flashback Friday ~
Year: 1985

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.

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?

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
 

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.

 

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!

 

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please, Seven, tell me that Hard Boiled is going away. Pleeeease????

[Kathy in Alaska]

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.

[BykrBayb]

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.

[Kathy in Alaska]

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

[Kathy in Alaska]

Whoa....a North Korean freighter with smack...lovely!

[BykrBayb]

Thank you all for your service.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Duty ~ Honor ~ Country

Click above to visit "A Day in the Life of President Bush"

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good night and rest well, AAC.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Bill, for helping keep us free.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Sarge, and The Kids, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

Temporary

[Kathy in Alaska]

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!!

[BykrBayb]

Wow Kathy! Your dedications are always so nice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Blessed Assurance

[Kathy in Alaska]

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.

[Kathy in Alaska]

And we thank our veterans for their service to America.

[Kathy in Alaska]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, txradioguy, for your service to America.
Congrats on your afternoon drive radio show for your fellow soldiers.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Jason (far right), for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, Brian, 3rd ACR, for your service to America.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Sailor, for your part in keeping all of us safe and free.
Prayers for your safety and success of mission.