Significant History You Have Lived - Page 6

qvcaddition · ‎03-10-2010

I don't know if anyone mentioned, "The Bay of Pigs" I could have gotten the name wrong. I could have been called, "The Cubin Missile Crisis".

My memory slips , but in the very early 60's. I was PG with my last child, who is 61 now.

We were all so scared about being blow up, looking for bomb shelters, some people making their own.

I remember, in out hall closet, we had a trap door, and I was storing a few days food and blankets, water, just in case.

I was close to my delivery date.

JFK was President.

Burnsite · ‎03-10-2010

Wonderful topic for a thread, Marp!

Some things that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Jackie Kennedy's televised tour of the White House in the early 1960s; I think it was the first such program ever, but it's the first I remember seeing.

The day the US decided to have a volunteer army, with draft registration held in reserve for national emergencies. Two of my brothers served as volunteers during the Vietnam era, even before the draft was suspended.

The 1960s US based service organization VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), in which I worked for a while. The Peace Corps did a lot of good as well.

The assassinations of JFK, MLK, and Robert Kennedy have all been mentioned; devastating events in my college years, as was the shooting (by the National Guard) of peaceful protesters at Kent State University, circa 1970.

9/11 was to me the worst of those historical crises. I switched on the Today Program just in time to see the second plane hit the Towers.

GoneButNotForgotten · ‎03-29-2020

Among other things, the Watts riots in Los Angeles, in 1965. I can still remember the National Guard soldiers patrolling the alley behind my house.

Group 5 minus 1 · ‎03-11-2010

My Mom was born in 1911 and died at 98. From her I learned some history. She remembers her baby brother lying in his crib dead from the flu (1918). She remembered the Lindbergh trial (she said it was worse than the OJ). She talked at length about Pearl Harbor. Daddy and she were coming out of the State Theater in New Castle PA and she said people were running around talking about Pearl Harbor. And lastly she called us one morning to tell us to turn the TV on cuz the US was being attacked again. That was 9-11.

JaneMarple · ‎05-23-2011

I've lived through quite a bit but feel at this point in time that this is the most significant right now present day.

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

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

The advances in medicine alone has been significant in my lifetime.

When I see what my ancestors died of a hundred or more years ago, it's all so simple now to treat.

To think of all the heartache of losing infants that was so common in the years past.

Josefina · ‎07-22-2010

I survived growing up in a communist country, lacking everything, from food to material things, and working on a chicken farm for 19 months after requesting to legally leave the country. I even survived removing roaches from a glass jar that I had brought from one of the trips to my home, it was full of delicious croquetes my grandma made for me, and when you are working hard and you are hungry, and in a situation like that ....I am very grateful for the experienced and feel extremely lucky for what I have now, what I have accomplished and all the people I have met. Don't ever take anything for granted.