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History in your life (Read 2302 times)
Dec 28
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, 2003 at 1:55pm
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Okay, as we have a groovey new forum I thought I'd ask about major historical world changing type moments that have occured in your life (other than finding SimV
)
So for me;
Two shuttle disasters
The end of the Cold War
A somewhat twitchy peace in N.Ireland
Several Russian/Soviet submarine disasters
The first probe leaving the Solar System
The falling of the Berlin Wall
The invention of the home computer
CDs
Mobile phones
DVDs and videos!!!
Microwave ovens
Britains first woman Prime Minister
Numerous wars (Gulf (twice), Falklands, Iran v Iraq and various others)
The Euro
The ISS and the end Mir
and Skylab
The probe landing on Haleys Comet
The last Apollo missions
The operational life of Concorde
Pot noodles (I know most people hate them, but I love the mushroom one
)
MP3
Digital watches and solar powered watches
Microsoft
There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!
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Dec 28
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, 2003 at 1:58pm
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I think that just about covers it Mark other than if we are very lucky we may live to see the introduction in to sevice of the Eurfighter Typhoon
I might just add that I'm glad to see this new forum
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Dec 28
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, 2003 at 2:20pm
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All the above plus:
Roughly in date order
We got our first TV - maybe a bad mistake
World speed record broken by Neville Duke in a Hawker Hunter 50 years ago this September
Sound Barrier broken
V-bombers - Valiant, Victor & Vulcan
DH 110 crash at Farnborough
My first flight - August 1957 in a Miles Marathon at RAF Topcliffe
Got my gliding licence - June 1959 - RAF Hawkinge
Had a flight in a Hunter T.7 - August 1959 at RAF Chivenor - broke sound barrier - twice - I was 16 years old
Cuban crisis averted - very nearly WWIII
JFK assasinated - I cried
Sputnik launched - first telecommunications satellite
Yuri Gagarin/Vostok 1 - first human astronaut to orbit Earth
John Glenn/Mercury capsule - first US astronaut to orbit Earth
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin/Apollo 11 - First moon landing
My daughter was born
Got my first R/C glider - Christmas 1979
Flew my first R/C glider - January 1980
Flight in an Extra 300 - May 3rd 2002 - special 60th birthday treat
My daughter got married - October 2002
8)
The last few years are a bit hazy. This is all I can think of right now.
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Dec 28
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, 2003 at 4:18pm
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september 11th 2001.
england winning a world cup of something:)
the capture of saddam hussein.
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other than if we are very lucky we may live to see the introduction in to sevice of the Eurfighter Typhoon
hahaha, nah it'll just end up in museums, for the youth of tomorow to try and figure out exactly what it is for and why it was ever built:)
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Dec 28
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Directly affecting my life -
Vietnam War - especially 1970 - when my draft number came up #262. For most of my college life I was either 1A or 1S (Student deferment), but my number never came up ...
Sept 11, 2001 - the sense of "it can happen here" hit home. Reading about the communist spy cells of the '30s, '40s, and '50s and realizing that it still goes on - just the players change, makes an impact. Am I still outwardly friendly, but more suspicious than ever?
Dec 2, 2002 - USS Harry S Truman, CVN-75, goes on its 2002-2003 Mediterranean tour, knowing that this will probably not be just another 6-month tour of readiness flights and operations - it wasn't. The fact that my son was aboard wsas a semi-consolation, but with the realization that ANY US Marine officer can be called upon to take his place in the front lines with the grunts. A friend of his was in a light recon unit, and in the midst of heavy fighting.
Of course, there are other events that I can mention, and that in the grand scheme of things have affected my life in one way or the other. These are the "historical" events that I can say have affected me directly to the core.
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 12:04am
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I remember witnessing most of the major events from Apollo 11 on...but the significant facts that stay in memory:
1. Fall of the Berlin wall (actually, I remember a fall
off
the Berlin wall).
2. The '91 Gulf War...and trying to explain to my mother that I wanted to deploy from Germany to Qatar with the CAF fighter Sqdn (much anticipated crying...).
3. Seeing a picture of a pilot I knew from the service in the paper...Sept. 12, 2001.
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 1:24am
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I almost missed the Challenger accident. I was only a couple weeks old when it happened
I remember the first gulf war, not much, but I did know something was happening. I even remember when Clinton was elected
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 3:35am
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In no particular order.
Death of JFK: Continues to raise very serious questions
Moon landing: Still amazed ....
Bay of Pigs. The most worrying moments of modern times by far
Vietnam. What an all round tragedy. Thought it would never end at the time
Early 80's fuel crisis. Exposed fragility of our fuel based society
9/11. Exposed the vulnerabilty of everyone - which will always exist
Berlin Wall: Symbolic of the crash of Eastern European & Russian unelected regimes
Many other things too political for these forums ...
Think Global. It's the world we live in.
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 10:00am
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The one that sticks out most in my mind would be Sept 11. Only because I was up and watching the TV at the time.
There have been other significant events in my 45 years, that I have or have not witnessed directly or indirectly, that maybe should for one reason or another, overshadow that 'far away event' including being shot at. But I still remember, although it was still a reasonably short time ago, the film of those planes hitting the WTS, It was truely 'surreal'.
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Dec 29
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Hmmmm... I'm amazed at all the things that have happened in my short 14 years...
I missed the fall of the Berlin Wall by a week and a day...Although I'm sure being inside my mom all nice and warm was better...
1990-92-Gulf War I
1991-Lenningrad changes it's name to St. Petersburg
1991-1996-Civil war in the former Yugoslavia
-Death camps found in Serbia
-First NATO attack on Bosnia
1993-Bomb explodes in parking garage of WTC
- Slovokia separates from Czechloslovakia
1994-Earthquake hits L.A.
-Genocide in Rwanda
1996-Talibans conquer Afghanistan
1998-President Clinton is impeahched by Republicans on Capitol Hill
-E-Mail becomes popular
2000-ISS up
-George Bush becomes 43rd President of the United States by a couple hundred of votes
2001-Enron scandel
-Terrorists hijacked planes on 9-11 and crashed into the WTC, Pentagon, and a field in PA
2002-Euro becomes legal tender in Europe
-K-Mart files for bancruptcy in US
2003-Space Shuttle Columbia breaks-up on reentry
-Gulf War II
-Heat wave scorches Europe, killing 11,000 in France
-SARS
-Saddam Hussein captured outside hometown of Tikrit
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 11:23am
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I missed the fall of the Berlin Wall by a week and a day...Although I'm sure being inside my mom all nice and warm was better...
What a wonderful thing to say. Maybe there is some hope for this old world yet.
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 2:17pm
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1991- Lenningrad changes it's name to St. Petersburg
In our new 'History Forum' we have to try to be 'precise'!!
j/k
'Back to' St Petersburg!!
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 2:28pm
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In our new 'History Forum' we have to try to be 'precise'!!
j/k
'Back to' St Petersburg!!
Being even more pedantic I believe it was Leningrad - not Lennigrad.
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Dec 29
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, 2003 at 4:31pm
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In our new 'History Forum' we have to try to be 'precise'!!
j/k
'Back to' St Petersburg!!
Petrograd?
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Dec 30
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Being even more pedantic I believe it was Leningrad - not Lennigrad.
*sigh*
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