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| Honky Lips |
The Berlin wall coming down, I was 3 I know I saw Gulf war coverage, and at least one debate from the '92 election, I liked Perot. ___________________________ The point is, who will stop me? | |||
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| Free men do not ask permission to bear arms  |
VJ day. and a parade afterwards. A gun in the hand is worth more than ten policemen on the phone. The American Revolution was carried out by a group of gun toting religious zealots. | |||
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December 7, 1941. A few weeks before my fifth birthday. It was a Sunday, we were at my grandmother's place on Beverly Road in Brooklyn. The whole family was listening to the big floor-standing console radio. Observing the adults, I knew that something very serious was happening, but I did not comprehend what it was. That day is the last clear memory I have of my father. He died a few months later. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Sputnik, and DDE's re-election. Sputnik in school, DDE from listening to Dad talking with neighbors. I can also remember Dad cussing FDR for "a damned socialist". Didn't think much of HST either. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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On Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West Side of Chicago, killing 92 children and three nuns. I remember the pictures of firefighters carrying dead kids. It terrified me at the time. | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
one of the moon landings. It wasn't Neil or Buzz but one of the crews after them. | |||
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This is my first major news memory. I also was in the 3rd grade. Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. Do everything in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 | |||
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For me, Korean War news dominated most other coverage. I don't recall a lot of details about it, as I was only four years old when the armistice went into effect. It's at once sad and amazing that we are still, 64 years later, having to deal with the Kim family of gangsters leading North Korea. | |||
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| Flying Sergeant |
For me i remember a shooting at the courthouse here where an inmate escaped and killed a hostage. I vividly remember the woman being dragged by the animal. Late 70's i believe. | |||
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The Sputnik launch in October 1957. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
There wasn't much reason to have a TV back then out in the sticks. I remember sitting in front of the Sears store after supper. Sears had a TV in the glass show window. The curb on that block was filled with parked cars, all of us "poor folks" watching this strange device. There was no sound. The street had a curb and hitching posts, in case of need. My folks didn't require that formality, but you had to respect things like that or suffer. We got a TV in 1955 or 56. The first program was Mickey Mouse Club, where a Mousekateer named Annette caught my, errr, eye. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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Likewise. I remember the footage of NVA armor on the news, and the helicopter evacuation. -- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. JALLEN 10/18/18 https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844 | |||
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Kennedy assassination.  | |||
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| Cogito Ergo Sum |
Hawaii becoming a state. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
What's with this "watching" business? There was no TV when I was a young child, and at those ages I didn't see movie newsreels, either. Probably the first "event" I was aware of (although did not understand) was Pearl Harbor. My parents and I were living in California at the time and I was just 2 weeks shy of 4 years old. I knew my folks were very worried about something that had happened a long way away. The next "event" I recall was the day President FDR died--again, the extended family had gathered and were concerned about something that had happened. (They were NOT fans of FDR, however--I think their concern was about the effect his death might have on the war effort.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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President Kennedy's assassination. | |||
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delicately calloused |
Kennedy's funeral and my aunts crying while watching. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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| Oh stewardess, I speak jive.  |
That's probably my first, too. | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
I still do that when Fox News plays the National Anthem at 0358 on weekend nights--but I salute (I'm a veteran). (My cats think I'm crazy because I bolt from my lounge chair and spring to attention--usually dumping at least one cat.) flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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