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What Was The Most Important 1980's Historical Event That Changed Your Life?
Self (somewhat) ^

Posted on 05/20/2008 3:27:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

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My favorite and most memorable moment was this one:

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I was a freshman in college in 1984, and this landslide victory made me realize that, in fact, we are really THE GREATEST NATION ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH!

1 posted on 05/20/2008 3:27:35 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: qam1

For your ping list.


2 posted on 05/20/2008 3:28:46 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Jimmuh Catah. The last time I voted Dem.


3 posted on 05/20/2008 3:30:04 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Me no bottom man. Me top man.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Probably the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut. You just knew that we were in for a long fight there.


4 posted on 05/20/2008 3:30:11 PM PDT by gridlock (RNC.com wants you to know... It's OK to vote against Barack Obama...)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I married my now ex wife.


5 posted on 05/20/2008 3:30:12 PM PDT by Rebelbase (McCain: The Third Bush Term ?)
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To: RockinRight; lainie; Grizzled Bear; kburi; sofaman; BufordP; SE Mom; armymarinemom; HokieMom; ...

Historical Ping (I thought you’d be interested)....


6 posted on 05/20/2008 3:32:29 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: Rebelbase

I met my lovely wife in 1980. She walks in the halls of Heaven now, but no one changed my life so much as she.


7 posted on 05/20/2008 3:32:44 PM PDT by elcid1970 (My cartridges are dipped in pig grease.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Joe Satriani issued Surfin With the Alien.
8 posted on 05/20/2008 3:33:18 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (In Memorium: Old Atlanta, 1945 - 2000, RIP)
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>> I married my now ex wife.

HA! +1


9 posted on 05/20/2008 3:34:14 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (La Raza hates white folks. And John McCain loves La Raza!)
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Does that come under the heading of: Taking the good, with the bad?

;)

10 posted on 05/20/2008 3:34:24 PM PDT by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Reagan, and Marrying my (still) Wife.
11 posted on 05/20/2008 3:35:23 PM PDT by xcamel (Forget the past and you're doomed to repeat it.)
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When this guy died in 1983 (Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov) the USSR went through dramatic political changes, starting with Gorbachev and then Yeltsin -- culminating in the end of Communism of the Soviet Era.

Thank you, President Reagan!

12 posted on 05/20/2008 3:35:42 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (The Dingo Ate Your Bay-bee!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

The day President Reagan was shot. I sat in front of the tv all day with a teething baby. (that baby grew up to love Reagan!)


13 posted on 05/20/2008 3:36:38 PM PDT by CAluvdubya (A good man has come home to San Diego! Thank you Congressman Hunter)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I heard Rush Limbaugh for the first time.

My first reaction was that he was just another political blowhard but that evening a little bell went off in my brain and next day I tuned in again.

After a couple of days the light came on and I came to the conclusion that he was just telling me the core beleifs that I had forgotten because I had become lazy after returning from VietNam.

I had quit fighting the media drum beat and accepted the standard liberal mantra but hidden in the recesses of my brain was the truth and he set me free to think for myself once more.


14 posted on 05/20/2008 3:37:36 PM PDT by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gulch.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I think the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was the biggest punch in the gut to me.


15 posted on 05/20/2008 3:38:02 PM PDT by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I don’t know about any historical events, but personal events that started with a divorce in ‘79, raising two sons by myself, and a new career in 1980 changed my life, and my political outlook.


16 posted on 05/20/2008 3:38:11 PM PDT by mass55th
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17 posted on 05/20/2008 3:38:11 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

I became a citizen in ‘87 and realized how blessed I was to be in raised in the greatest country on the face of the Earth!


18 posted on 05/20/2008 3:38:37 PM PDT by rabidralph (Hey, Liberals! Where's my "War-for-Oil" oil?)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

The emergence of Solidarity in Poland, woke me up to politics, and led me to gain a greater appreciation for the land of my ancestors.


19 posted on 05/20/2008 3:41:45 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
I am sorry.... I have to admit this.... MTV.

*crawls under desk rapidly sucking thumb*

OK Just kidding. I Graduated High school. So there.

20 posted on 05/20/2008 3:41:52 PM PDT by Danae (Remember: Obama = Pull out from Iraq. PLAN on voting, or accept responsibility for the consequences.)
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