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!

 

 

[Fawnn]

Jade Falcon!!!


God bless those who love, support, and defend our country!

[Soaring Feather]

My Barry....Can't Get Enough

[Fawnn]

I had to google, so my answer doesn't count:

Henry Mencken ;)

[Soaring Feather]

WOO HOO !!!!!

You made the 700 Club!!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Congratulations!

[Cool Multiservice Soldier]

Good Afternoon MoJo!1 *HUGS*

[Soaring Feather]

My Barry...Love's Theme....ahhhhh

[Lady Jag]

[SandRat]

Hope for a fast Lunch and then back to the mines.

[blackie]

Flashback Friday breakfast with Tonk!

[tomkow6]

MUSIC DEDICATION to

Jade Falcon

 

US NAVY Anchors Away

 

From my "VOICES"!!

 

MUSIC DEDICATION to

Jade Falcon

 

US NAVY Anchors Away

 

From my "VOICES"!!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Mr S, for The Good Stuff

Thank you, Quartermaster Robert Anderson, for your service to America.

[StarCMC]

Now THAT'S looking like a fantasy alright! Woo-hoo!!

Hey Mojo! Armyboys in shorts!!!

[SouthernHawk]

We're humbled! THANK YOU

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP USS Frank E. Evans (DD-754) sailors

[SouthernHawk]

This could be worse (you don't know Jade Falcon very well). . . . . LOL!!!!

[HiJinx]

You made the 700 Club!!

PTL!

Lunchtime...laterzzzzz...

[HiJinx]

Lovely hummingbird, Ms. Feather.

I'm going to try and show off our little hummers to Ms. Marlowe, if the timing is right...

[Army Air Corps]

They are forever On Patrol...

Thanks, and G-d bless. (You just made me get teary eyed)

[StarCMC]

Ok ya'll, I have the coolest thing to share!!  Today I went to the Post Office to mail a couple of packages.  As I pulled into the parking space, I saw that the window of the van parked next to me had a double Blue Star decal on it.  I hurried up and got around and knocked on the window.  The lady rolled her window down and we talked (and cried) for a couple minutes.  She is the mom of 2 Marines, both have been to Iraq.  One has been twice and won't go back.  The other has to go back.  They were both home on leave at the same time (talk about a happy woman!!)  I gave her business cards for the Canteen and also for Proud Patriots and asked her to thank her sons for me.  She, in return, gave me a business card for Marine Comfort Quilts.  What a cool organization.  She told me that she has made a quilt square for every fallen Marine in this conflict.  Please, if you have a minute, take the time to stop by their website and check them out.  They are looking for help making the quilt squares - they can handle the quilting, but if you can do a square, what a great and meaningful place to get involved.  God bless these folks real good.  Click the pic to transport to their site.

The second part of this is an encouraging word.  Sometimes I WANT to say something to people about what we do here on the Canteen and also at Proud Patriots, but I sort of chicken out and mumble a thank you and move on.  This experience has taught me that I need to be bolder in my thank you's.  These young men and women and their families need to know that we appreciate them.  So my challenge to you all is look for the opportunity.  I know most of you do.  But I just want to give you a boost!!  *HUGS!*