[8mmMauser]

Well,,,, I was there, Advance Man during the campaign and Inaugural Committee at the moment, eyewitness. Long time Reaganite, long time appointee.

[dware]

I was almost five years old...

I remember being at my grandparent's house, where they watched the ceremony. Of course, at five years old, it didn't mean a whole lot to me. Nonetheless, my grandparents tried their best to explain what was happening, and why it was important. Now I wish I had paid more attention.

This last January 2001, I sat with my 6 & 7 year olds, and did my best to explain it to them...

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I was taking a day's vacation from work to watch the inauguration festivities. A year before, I fancied myself a far-left radical; between Carter's ineptness and Reagan's common-sense talk, I slowly turned right from left and have never looked back. I owe Reagan a lot for showing me a better way. God Bless the Gipper!

[Nowhere Man]

I was 14 years old, in 8th grade, probably in Mr. Merges' social study class in Moon Area Junior High (now called "Middle School" icky PC term, blechhhh) at the time he officially took office I remember coming home watching the re-runs of it on TV and seeing the news when the hostages were released from Iran. When Ronald Reagan said "they left Iranian airspace 20 minutes ago," it sent good feeling chills up my spine. It still does. I felt it was a new era in America, it's a shame we had to go through 8 years of Hell with Slick Willie. Well, I get much of the same feeling with President George W. Bush, perhaps he isn't exactly like Ronald Reagan, but then again, there is only one Ronald Reagan anyways. B-)

Getting back to our hostages, back in 1999, I finally took a drive up to Hermitage PA to see the cemetery where the 444 flags stood honoring our hostages, it was a moving experience as well. I plan to go up again this year I hope.

[Republican Wildcat]

I was an embryo.

[cmsgop]

I was 11, living at the Rotunda Apt Complex in Mc Lean,Va with Sam Donaldson living in the same building. True Story...

[amused]

I was 5 so my memory is a bit hazy. ;-)

[inflorida]

I was six years old and at Reagan's inauguration with my dad.

[AK2KX]

I was 17 years old, working the broiler at the Burger King in Brighton, MI when the news came over the radio we had playing in the manager's area back of the kitchen.

[angcat]

Working at my after school job in Shopwell Grocery Store in Yonkers. I was 16 years old.

[ladylib]

I really don't remember. However, I do remember that on election day, I was driving my brother somewhere and I threatened to drive off the road (I swerved my car sharply to the right) if he didn't promise to vote for Reagan.

Carter was such an embarrassment and I was so annoyed at the inflation and everything else. He can never make up for it no matter how many peace prizes he wins.

[Straight Vermonter]

I was at an assembly in my elementary school watching the president make the announcement. One of the hostages had been a school board member in my town.

[KansasConservative]

I was a freshman in highschool. We were all gathered in the lunchroom watching it on tv. It was a great day!

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

Laughing at Jimmy Carter, Praising President Regan

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at my jobsite.

[rogue yam]

I was at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I was just beginning the second semester of my junior year in the Engineering College. I also worked at the student radio station. Inauguration day there was a time of great sadness as the place was crawling with lefties. My only regret is that I was then one of them.

[Paulus Invictus]

I was hard at work at marketing. I spent many a lunch time arguing with two RATS who could not believe that Carter had been beaten. They were in tears. I was so happy that Reagan won, I soon became their "nasty office Republican."

It was so great to have seen "20% interest rate" Carter booted I could not help celebrating every time we met after that. My colleagues never got over their RATness either. Sad cases!

[Tadhg]

In class at a Jesuit(liberal)College. I had "Reagan Country" posters all over my dorm room. The resident Jesuit kept telling me to take them down, but they stayed up all year.

[grammymoon]

I was driving to upstate NY in a brand new Caddillac, listening to the inauguraion and the news of the realease. I almost couldn't drive from the excitement & joy.

I also heard a guy say that day that Carter lost because he made a mutt of this country and people here just won't stand for that!

He is still trying though isn't he?

[x1stcav]

I was lucky enough to be there and right in front of the Marine band. It had been pretty cold for the few days before, but that morning was tolerable. Until literally the moment the swearing-in ceremony began and the clouds parted, the sun came out, and it was as though the Almighty smiled on the event.

The crowds were enormous, stretching quite a ways down the Mall. RR's speech was carried by loud speakers located along and down on the Mall, and the people there heard it almost instantaneously, but their reaction of course traveled the speed of sound, so that the effect was rolling waves of applause and cheering.

I've got an official White House photo taken from our vantage spot. Looking at it all of these years later, one can see the facade of the Capitol was in need of quite a bit of repair (this was prior to the renovation carried out in the late 80's). As indeed was the country. But help was on the way.

[Blood of Tyrants]

In the delivery room with my first born. He was born at 10:20 a.m. and WAS NOT going to be born while a Rat was still president.