cut-and-paste from a few post... i'm lazy today

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
CDs...
Mobile phones
DVDs
Microwave ovens
Britains first woman Prime Minister
two gulf wars, a few massacres in africa.
The Euro
The ISS and the end of Mir
The probe landing on Haleys Comet
The operational life of Concorde    
MP3
Microsoft 
First post-ww2 air-to-air kill by the dutch airforce
Bill 'i didn't have sex with that woman' Cinton
Enron, Ahold
9-11

surely i forgot a lot...

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K-MART AND WAL MART ARE EVIL PLACES WHERE THE CRAZYS COME OUT AND SCARE ME

1down, 1 to go. 

quoting from an old thread-top 10 funnest things to do in wal mart:
-walk into the fitting rooms and ask for more toilet paper
-use the security cameras as a mirror to pick your nose
-hide in a rack of clothes, and when someone comes by, wisper, "hey, pick me!"

1992: Joining the USAF.
1995: Becoming a Flight Engineer on MH-53 PaveLow's.
1999: Earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for rescueing a downed F-16 pilot in Serbia.
1999: The birth of my daughter.
2001: Winning the MacKay Trophy for rescueing our sister ship that crashed in the mountains of Afghanistan while we attempted to save a Special Forces soldier who was sick. (At the ceremony in D.C., I got to meet John Glenn, Scott Crossfield, and the Chief of Staff of the AF.).

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I can say with reasonable confidence, that I think you have never seen a movie called Captain Ron, Doug. "Stay outta the jungle boss, there's Go-rillas in there!"  This is the premise for some great cheesy American comedy.
I think it's easy to tack off the major events of MY life from a "what made the headlines" standpoint, but "what affected my life most?"  9/11 first.......I had just gotten established in a job in the aviation buisness where I was making a lot of money doing what I loved best, flying airplanes, and those A$$h0l3s  f**cked it up! No I'm not disregarding the lives that were lost. BUT this was NOT a matter of lives lost, first and foremost(more people die of heart attacks on this planet in the course of one day), the biggest issue, in my opinion, was the idea that the Western world was no longer allowed to sit back and enjoy the same basic freedoms that it had before that day. I can't even walk around my favorite LOCAL airport anymore(they put up an 8foot chain link fence), and flying(even recreational) is fast becoming a pastime for the wealthy.
The BIGGEST event in MY life though, I would consider to be the fall of the Berlin wall and the "Iron Curtain" along with it. It was the ultimate letdown. Intitially, it seemed like Utopia come of Earth, to my 20 year old naive eyes. It would now seem that many of us long for that comfort of the "old days", when the lines were very clearly drawn and things seemed much simpler.

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"guerilla" always made sense to me - "small war"  an aglicized diminutive of "guerra" in Spanish, which means "war".  "Guerrillero" would be the "small war fighter"

September 11th
Concorde
Finding SimV
Getting FS2002

Thats thirteen years!
Dan

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