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From: booter@lll-crg.ARpA (Elaine Richards)
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: Events of our Lifetime
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 02:02:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 02:02:56 1986
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Re: Glenn's topic. Interesting. We betray our age.

My biggies (besides my birth) in no order:
My baby brother being born (irrelevant to most of the world)

MLK, Kennedy assasinations within months of each other.

My dad weeping when Columbia University was trashed by demonstrators in the 60s
(He loves the alma mater. My sibs and I went too.)

The beatles
My clearest memory..my 7th birthday when the radio announcer said, "Today,
October 9th is John Lennon's birthday". What a nice way for a kid to start
a day!

Nixon resigned on my Aunt Carol's birthday

Marching in the last and biggest peace demo in NYC (snuck out of the house)

Voting for the ERA the first time I ever voted.

Reading Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" and saying "Holy Sh*t!"

The advent of the Women's movement as we know it.

Star Trek (need I say more)

Sally Ride and Guy Bluford

The Apollo and Challenger disasters.(not to mention the Russian casualties)

Becoming and auntie (My sister had both her boys about 6 mo before Princess
Diana had her boys and the first for both was William and Joan's second
was a David...the little prince had a David in his long name) Actually, the
wedding for all its hype was a nice event (for a change-what a pretty affair).

I havent hit my Big Three Oh, but that will be a wild affair. I'll be a hair
away from a second bachelors (BS in CS) and will be raiding Silly Valley for
plunder and a nice office!


Here's to memories to come. May we have many years, all of us!

E
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