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[Mombo1]

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@On It wrote:

I remember the first telephone being installed in our house. My grandparents, aunts and uncles got theirs about the same time. It meant not having to drive to their homes to communicate.

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@On It    I remember our first telephone as well.  We had. "party line"...   

[Foxxee]

November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall—that separated communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin for nearly 30 years—falls. The years 1989-90 see the collapse of communist regimes in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Benin, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Yemen.

• December 25, 1991: With the resignation of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union is dissolved. New Russian President Boris Yeltsin bans the Communist Party.

Communism soon ends in Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Congo, Yugoslavia and other nations. China, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam remain under Communist rule. North Korea remains Communist, although the North Korean government doesn't call itself Communist.

[bmorechick]

First one I remember was the Kennedy assignation.  I was 7 years old and sent home from school. My mom and her sister were in our den around the tv crying...I couldn't figure out why.

Moon landing

Advent of the push button phone, fm radio, betamax

vietnam - I was in grade school in the 60s and we were so worried our dad would be called up, even though he had been discharged from Navy in 1954

And sadly 9/11

Too many things to remember

[We rescue cats]

Probably the first historical thing I remember was the death of JFK. But I also remember the death of his brother Robert and of Martin Luther King.... I was the Chairman of the Keystone Chapter of the American Red Cross during 9/11, our air disaster team was first on scene. We set up a field office to assist the workers in Shanksville, PA and set the stage for the care and feeding of all the workers, including the FBI, arranged and coordinated the transportation for the families and for Mrs. Bush to come in for the services.

[Group 5 minus 1]

 I remember sitting in the kitchen having supper w/Mom. Dad was a fireman and was working the night shift. The radio was on (KDKA) and it was announced that a vaccine for polio had been found.

On another note when the moonwalk was about to begin I had my son (just under 2 years) watch it. He says he thinks he remembers it.

[haddon9]

I was in the fourth grade walking home from school when Kennedy was shot.  I didn't believe it since it wasn't mentioned in school and some kids knew and were telling us about it.  I thought they were making it up.

I remember the Beatles invasion and watching them on Ed Sullivan several months later!  I was in love with them from the beginning!!

A few years later I remember MLK & then RFK both getting shot within a few months of each other.  The moon landing was another historic event never to be forgotten.

I remember Nixon resigning and finally then the end of the VN war....it seemed like it would never end!

I remember Y2K and how we were all worried about computers having problems with the change of date which never happened.

Then of course 9/11.  My kids were in high school & Jr High at the time.  DH worked in central NJ and I just couldn't get though to him.  Several people from my town and the one next to me passed that day.

Of course Covid was a major life changing event for the world and things will never quite be the same.  Who knows what the future holds?  I fear for our younger generation and the effects of looming AI

[Marp]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

When the VN War was over in 1975, my Army dad came home...alive. 

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@SilleeMee,  I sincerely home he is also unscathed.  I'm confident you know what I mean by that.

[qualitygal]

When JFK was shot. Later MLK and Robert Kennedy too.

My husband was in Nam when the space walk took place.

Remember Son of Sam, and Sharon Tate and LaBianka (sp) murders.

Remember Karen Carpenter passing.

Space shots too.  Krushchev and the Russian cosmonauts.  

6/11/23 Did anyone mention Elvis passing?

[Sooner]

I worked near the Oklahoma City Bombing.  If you ever want to know about it, get a copy (out of print long ago but still can find them) of "In their name."

If you can look at the memorial and photos from that day without emotion, I don't know what to say.