Re: Living/Witnessing History

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

@jaxs mom wrote:
@mstyrion 1 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
I don't intend this comment to be pot-stirring or inflammatory in the least, but since others have mentioned things they didn't believe they would see in their lifetime -

Equal Rights for LGBT people and the legalization of gay marriage.

Whatever your views (and please, let's not go there either way), it's historic. I imagine for those now in their teens, it will be "the" moment for many of them, like the assassinations or 9/11 were for other ages.
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I don't think those things are pot stirring at all.
They are very important milestones for this country.
When I think about it, the Baby Boomer generation has seen more history-making events than any other generation before us.
Really? More than any other generation? The revolutionary war is the foundation of it all. As was the civil war.

None of us have lived/witnessed the Revolutionary War and I doubt any of us lived/witnessed or the Civil War let alone any other historic events from those eras.

Mstyrion is correct that the Baby Boomer generation is thought to have seen more history-making events than any generation before us.

Baby Boomer Timeline

Events That Affected Baby Boomers

The happenings of the Baby Boomer generation were a mix of exciting and melancholy times. The number of historic events which took place in the last 60 years is unprecedented. Below you will view a detailed timeline of those events.

Timeline 1946-2013: http://boomerbaggage.com/timeline/

What is good for the goose today will also be good for the gander tomorrow.

jaxs mom · ‎04-18-2012

Baby Boomers did not see WWII baby boomers generation officially starts in 1946, after WWII ended.

Don't Change Your Authenticity for Approval

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

The Berlin Wall coming down and the changes in the former USSR was important because we went to Europe for my dad's job as a result.

September 11 because all 4 of my brothers were deployed and my husband and many friends were sent to Afghanistan and Iraq after their graduations.

On a personal level my wedding date was moved up due to the war.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

Great thread @Marp, for me it was 1968 when I was in grade school and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. My parents, adult family members and school teachers were all very upset and in shock. My mother explained the significance of both tragedies to us kids.

You Don't Own Me- Leslie Gore
(You don't Know) How Glad I Am- Nancy Wilson

mstyrion 1 · ‎09-18-2014

@jaxs mom wrote:
Baby Boomers did not see WWII baby boomers generation officially starts in 1946, after WWII ended.

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LOL.

All right I'll give you that one. Mea Culpa.

Now, will you admit that you were wrong too?

~Enough is enough~

Caligurll · ‎07-20-2014

November 22, 1963. It was the end of innocence.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

There was so much that happened, I didn't think of it as viewing what would be history until much later.

For awhile it seemed like the era of assassinations: JFK, MLK, Robert Kennedy and the attempt on Reagan. So many events that became historical markers.

I made it a point to bring that up for every event after my daughter was old enough to understand. Even now I tell her she is witnessing history when it's something important.

Caligurll · ‎07-20-2014

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Marp wrote:

JaxsMom wrote:

mstyrion 1 wrote:

Moonchilde wrote:

I don't intend this comment to be pot-stirring or inflammatory in the least, but since others have mentioned things they didn't believe they would see in their lifetime -

Equal Rights for LGBT people and the legalization of gay marriage.

Whatever your views (and please, let's not go there either way), it's historic. I imagine for those now in their teens, it will be "the" moment for many of them, like the assassinations or 9/11 were for other ages.

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I don't think those things are pot stirring at all.

They are very important milestones for this country.

When I think about it, the Baby Boomer generation has seen more history-making events than any other generation before us.

Really? More than any other generation? The revolutionary war is the foundation of it all. As was the civil war.

None of us have lived/witnessed the Revolutionary War and I doubt any of us lived/witnessed or the Civil War let alone any other historic events from those eras.

Mstyrion is correct that the Baby Boomer generation is thought to have seen more history-making events than any generation before us.

Baby Boomer Timeline

Events That Affected Baby Boomers

The happenings of the Baby Boomer generation were a mix of exciting and melancholy times. The number of historic events which took place in the last 60 years is unprecedented. Below you will view a detailed timeline of those events.

Timeline 1946-2013: http://boomerbaggage.com/timeline/

I SO agree!

I grew up having a party line telephone, and for those of you who never experienced this, 6 other households shared a phone line with us. You could pick up the receiver to make a call and could hear if someone was already on the line (and it was usually my mother's best friend Dolores . So you would have to keep trying until the line was free. Now I have an iPhone 6 Plus. That's a heck of a lot of history making technology going on there!

Don't even get me started on manual typewriters/electric typewriters/IBM (YAY)/mag cards/cartridges/the first computers in the workplace to where we are now.

I think us Baby Boomers have kept up and adapted extremely well and will continue to do so because we have lived through rapidly increasing technological advances.

september · ‎03-09-2010

@cherry wrote:
The day Kennedy was shot. I was too young to give sputnick much notice

Me too. I was in kindergarten. I think he must have been shot before our class started that day, because one of the boys in my class already knew about it, when it was announced. I'll never forget that he said "he was shot in the head"

We were all sent home after that.