What do you remember from 35 years ago?

[A_Possum]

Are there significant incidents from 1969 that you can clearly recall?

I was in high school. I have some vague memories, but nothing where I could say "I am absolutely certain this detail is correct."

I remember a car accident from about 32 years ago, but not even that is very clear--just a sort of snapshot of pictures, a moment just before it happened, and how I tried to find some way to call the police, talked to the other driver. I know I was behind a school bus at a stop light just before it happened. I know what time it was, basically, because of what caused it. It was around midnight, and I'd just dropped a friend of mine off at her dorm.

I could not possibly tell you now, for instance, what the cop who came looked like, or what the other vehicle was, or anything whatsoever about the other driver except he had his girlfriend with him, he was about my age and he was white.

I'm sure combat sears things into your memory, and I don't have a very good memory anyway, but if the police reports of that accident said it was a red 2-door chevrolet that was heavily damaged, I would not be able to support that or contradict it.

Just curious if others remember more clearly.

[Vickers]

1. I remember my dad pointing at the moon, "There's folks up there right now"

And I asked why, and he said "I don't know. Working I guess."

I sure miss him. :(

[Arugula Latte]

61. I remember the moon landing -- I think

I was three. I have a memory of standing in front of our black & white TV on a humid night and it seemed very late. But then, sometimes I think I might have reconstructed the memory after the fact. It's all very vague.

Wish my Dad were still around, too.

[arcos]

2. nothing, I was not alive.

:P

[UpsideDownFlag]

4. same here. but damn, it woulda been cool.

[Wilber_Stool]

3. I got

fucking drafted.

[A_Possum]

7. Memory details?

Where were you at the time you found out? Who was with you? Would that person be able to say what you said?

[WLKjr]

5. Umm Nothing, I wasn't even an itch in my dads pants

:D, but I hear 35 years ago things were great!

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

Same here.

I wasn't around until 1979.
I know that my dad went to woodstock. He used talked about it a lot. It must have been real cool.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

18. Weird...

My previous post wasn't numbered.

[Maple]

6. Everything

Yes, quite clearly.

I was 23.

[graywarrior]

8. I was tokin' a joint at the Art Institute in Boston

I think...I was too stoned to remember. Oh wait, I was at the Boston Tea Party getting stoned.

[lapfog_1]

9. I have no idea

BUT, if I had won a bronze star while bullets were flying around,
I think I'd remember.

I'm pretty sure the not-so-swifties remember too, they simply choose
to lie about it.

The KEY question is "why, when YOU won your bronze star while in
the same action that Kerry won his, did YOU not dispute the
citation that you were given at the time of the award?"

[AmyDeLune]

36. I was three months old...

so, nothing I guess...

[lpbk2713]

10. I had just gotten out of the Navy after 4 years.

I had been overseas for the previous three years and was still get acclimated to civilized life lounging around and not doing much of anything in Boston, Mass. In September I came back home to Florida and reclaimed the job I left when I enlisted. I retired from that same company four years ago at age 56. Now I'm back to not doing much of anything again, LOL.

[cmd]

11. a lot of general stuff

a lot or rain in the valley resulting in flooding

moving into my first real apartment

buying furniture

meeting new people that would become friends for life

stealing a snowman from a friend's yard

However, I could not put a date on any of those incidents.

[Courtesy Flush]

12. I remember a few things

In 1969, when they landed on the moon, I was in Shriner's hospital, and my mom was visiting. It wasn't a regular visiting day, but I was about to have surgery, so it was allowed. My grandmother was there, too. While they were there, I saw that the moon landing was happening. There were no cameras on the moon, but they were re-enacting it, in real time, with model spacecraft in a studio (all in black and white). Seems primative today.

I remember protests on the news, and I never understood why. There were people in the streets with blood covering their faces. Not like today, with canned blood. Back then protesters actually were beaten in the streets. I don't know how many people have that kind of conviction today.

I remember, in 1968, when Martin Luther King was killed. I asked who he was, and my parents told me he was a nigger trouble maker (I'm from the South). It was many years before I heard a positive word about him.

I remember my dad saying that Nixon would win for sure, and being impressed when he did. My dad knew everything.

[jimshoes]

13. Woodstock although I was not there

I was 17 at the time. Lost my virginity. Great time in my life. I remember it like it was a foggy dream. Not too many details. Got arrested for being a dickhead when I should not have been. Last year of high school. But I couldn't tell you what I did on a certain date.

[Courtesy Flush]

17. It was a great time to be 17

Unfortunately, I was nine.

[Skittles]

14. the Tate/LaBianca murders

:(

[Courtesy Flush]

15. I remember that, too

And my mom talking about how that was their big mistake, killing rich people.

Man, I'm hating this thread already.

[Junkdrawer]

16. Well I clearly remember treating John Kerry's minor wound...

Just kidding :silly:

[A_Possum]

19. Bingo

I can believe a person would have a fairly clear recollection of certain (probably random) details from a life-or-death incident, but I DON'T believe a medic would remember the specific nature of a wound he treated among all the others he was treating, unless he was involved in the life-or-death incident too.

[Junkdrawer]

31. Seen this Daily Show piece??

http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/videoswitcher.jhtml?show=ds&reposid=/multimedia/tds/headlines/9016.html&clip=dailyshow/headlines/9016_headline.wmv&mswmext=.asx

[Sporadicus]

20. I Was in High School

I remember wishing I had taken off for Woodstock.

[jdj]

57. The only negative thing I've heard about Woodstock came

from a friend's stepfather, Terry Clements, who played tenor sax for Janis Joplin there. Said he really didn't like it, said it was dirty and nasty and that it was like a cult, he said everyone was under the musicians' spell, that if they'd said kill the person next to you everyone would have.

Weird, but I guess he'd know.

[devilgrrl]

21. The only thing I remember of significance was the Moon landing...

as I was only 5. However, I do remember a lot of the TV I was watching. Underdog, Space Ghost, Mighty Mouse, Captain Kangaroo, Kukla, Fran & Ollie... :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

22. I turned 3.

My mother and brother and I stayed with my grandmother while my dad was stationed in the Philippines.

It sucked. I loved my dad and missed him terribly. Even then I was a daddy's girl!

I remember driving from Texas to Virginia (when he came home and we got transferred there), and being so young and not understanding...but seeing the remnants of Hurricane Camille!

It looked like a giant claw had come up out of the ocean, grabbed a house and broken it in half, left part of it sitting there, and swept the other half out to sea. It was wild.

[doc03]

23. I was in the Army stationed in W. Germany at an outpost on the

Chech. border. The locals brought beer an food to our post and had a party for us as we watched the moon landing on TV. Of course that was before Bush* when the Germans were our comrades.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Moving. Our old apartment being emptied. Being driven to a new town

which they say was "up on the mountain." I had this image of a perfectly conical mountain, with a perfectly spiral-shaped road leading to a tightly packed bunch of buildings at the very top.

I was 3.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

25. I was 5...I don't remember much

:shrug:

[Shopaholic]

29. Me too--Rose!

[indie_voter]

30. Me too, but I remember the moon landing. n/t

[Just Me]

26. I was 7 years old, my dad was was f-upped from Vietnam,...

,...my mom was a mess, too,...

,...and I was taking care of my 4 year old sis and 2 year old brother while the "adults" struggled through,...

[Tight_rope]

27. Nothing...Wasn't created yet.

[marlakay]

28. Somethings clearly some not

I was in 8th grade, remember most working on the year book as one of the editors and loved taking pics for it. We also wore these bracelets on our ankles for the MIA guys with their names on it. You were suppose to wear them until they came back. I can't remember how long I lasted! I do remember my dad cussing about the war and we all hated it.

[shanti]

32. yup, just starting the 9th grade in lala land

not a care in the world...i never gave a thought to vietnam, like many of my peers.

[Pastiche423]

33. Plotting a way to break out

of the orphange to go to Woodstock w/a few of my sisters. It was a brilliant plot and would have worked if we hadn't been ratted out.

Watching the nightly news of returning body bags and hoping and praying that my penpal would make it back alive.

He din't.

[jdj]

58. I'm sorry.

That reeks.

[The Straight Story]

34. Moon Landing, I was almost 4

I remeber sitting at a neighbor's house with my friends and the moon landing. Don't remember a lot about it, just the picture from the tv (which was adjacent to the living room window at the time) and I was sitting on the floor. I have blurbs of memories from that time period. We took a trip to Florida and I remember several things from that. Oddly enough I had a dream about 2 years later which I still remember (about a giant ghost with sun glasses being tied up and other misc things).

[Karenina]

35. I'll tell you what...

I could within 72 hours produce sworn statements from folks who could pinpoint my whereabouts. And I ain't even famous (yet). But I'm sure most would take the word of those I'd call on. :evilgrin:

I CLEARLY recall moving our campus down to 66th St and the introduction of the Drama Division. I also CLEARLY recall who was in the student body and still communicate with a few of its members. *dauphin and his cronies are dopes who done been roped.

The "cherry on top" is I can tell you EXACTLY where I was when the news from Dallas was broadcast over our P.A. Steve Beard was sitting 2 rows over and 3 or 4 seats behind me and he burst into tears. Mark Sharp was SILENT.

Gimme a break with this *pigshit.

[stevedeshazer]

68. What news came from Dallas in 1969?

[Karenina]

70. Sorry to be unclear about that

incident in November 6 years earlier, my point being that barring some brain impairment, people DO REMEMBER pivotal points in their lives.

[stevedeshazer]

72. Got it

Thanks

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38. Lots

The moon landing
The Tate-LaBianca murders (Charles Manson)
Woodstock
being a freshman-sophomore in college, which included acting in plays, getting mono, and hating summer vacation back home
dating a physics major
taking a train trip to the Pacific Northwest and back across Canada, attending a family wedding along the way

[bikebloke]

39. Junior high school

Family strife
The moon landing and walk
Friendly with a real cute chick at the swimming pool.

[Warpy]

40. I was living in Boston

and I can remember in exquisite detail every gut-wrenchingly embarrassing thing that happened to me.

[NightTrain]

41. I was three years old in 1969.

I have a vague memory of sitting in front of the TV set as Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

[Geo55]

42. Ahhh...yes

19 yrs. old ....free an crazy....moon landing .....worried I just got my girlfriend preggy....married her anyway , still married (imagine that).....the asshole war.....sex,drugs an' rock an' roll..
interesting times.....but like they say , "if ya' remember the 60's , ya weren't there...lol

[Cleita]

43. I almost got fired from my job because they said my skirt was

too short(mid-thigh). I refused to give in. I did have a particular skill no one else had at that time, so my immediate supervisor pleaded my case with the big enchilada. In a few months everyone was wearing miniskirts except the middle-aged ladies who clucked about what a bunch of sluts we were.

[napi21]

45. AHH yes, the mini skirt! I remember those!

Remember having to stoop down instead of bending over to pick something up off the floor?

[Cleita]

49. Funny enough, you learned the moves that kept you

from displaying too much. I always wore little lacey things underneath though just in case. :-)

[napi21]

44. Ohhh goodness, all you kids. Should you be up this late?

Sorry, I just had to say that! I can't say for sure I remember any specific incidents about 1969, but I remember getting married in 1964 a few months early because my fiance got a draft notice, and if you were married, it changed your status from 1A to 4A I think. I can tell all of you NOBODY wanted to go to 'Nam. It was a different culture then and there were a lot of protests against the war. Everybody I knew was thrilled that their loved one came home without being wounded or dead.

I think it was the beginning ofthe real rebelion against authority that a lot of older Americans couldn't accept then, and are not about to accept now. You just have to wait until the old foggies kick off and life will be better. Be very careful of those RW finatics though. Some of them are still pretty young and will be around for a long time.

[jdj]

60. words that bruise

"It was a different culture then and there were a lot of protests against the war."

I'm personally ashamed about this, why should it be different now???
But it is. I hang my head.

[neebob]

46. I was in the third and fourth grades

Here's what I remember: watching some Apollo astronauts on TV in the classroom - which ones, I couldn't say; dropping a Mason jar full of the hatchlings of a garden spider that had built a web in the Euonymus (sp? - bushes) in front of my house and my friend across the street had caught and taken to class; my teacher, Miss Allred, suggesting to my mother that they move me ahead to the fourth grade and my thinking that would be cool and my mom saying no; walking by the principal's office, which had a TV with the World Series on, and wondering what was so interesting about that (hey, it was Utah); a boy sitting next to me not being very impressed with some ugly shoes that I had wanted for a long time and thought were really cool; another boy tipping over backwards in his desk-chair combo and all the stuff from the desk part falling out on top of him; and finally, realizing - in front of a bunch of friends who had all been informed or caught a clue - that there was no Santa Claus and my parents had continued the lie far beyond the norm.

[Norquist Nemesis]

47. Ten years old here...and scared

Watching the nightly news of Vietnam. Scared my brother (although a shit to me as most brothers are) is five years older and already thinking he would be drafted and killed. My parents were expecting their third child so there was excitement along with anxiousness. Having a 16 year spread between oldest to youngest was hard in a lot of ways.

I remember each night watching the news. Seeing the counts on the numbers killed. There was never any discussion within my family about it. It was just "turn on the news", and then watching things like Laugh-In and the moon landing. I remember gathering into a small room in school to watch the rocket take off and feeling so proud and at the same time scared for the astronauts.

Being so young, there are so many things during those years that are all jumbled together with no sense of the date. I remember being in the car listening to the radio about Bobby Kennedy's assasination. I remember seeing Malcom X on the TV and seeing Olympic athletes raising their hands high in a fist. I remember thinking of the power of that statement...peaceful, full of emotion, simple...and oh, so powerful.

There were other things going on in my family life at the time (from about 7 yrs old to around 11 years old) that were happening. But things going on in those years on the world stage truly had an impact in shaping how I view the world and how we as Americans should be involved.

[LanternWaste]

48. Absolutely no context to the memory itself, just an image...

I was two and my first memories are from that year. My dad was a Master Electrician at travelled from site to site. He and my mom owned a VW bus and my first memory is of waking up one night on a freeway, hearing my parents talking in the front and looking at the moon from the back window.

Absolutely no context to the memory itself, just an image...

[spanone]

50. Quite a bit. Senior high school. Some I'd like to forget.

And you're right, the images of war are probably seared in your brain in a way only one who has been there can understand. These shits aren't relying on memory, they're pissed cause Kerry ratted them out on the war when he came home by telling the world the truth. And they want * re-elected.

[medeak]

51. hooked generator up to truck battery

to watch moon landing..was visiting moonshining uncle deep in the Arkansas Ozarks. No running water or electricity.

Pretty surreal to see man walk on the moon in countryside that was 100 yrs behind the times (Today Show covered event when they finally achieved electricity in the '70's)

[samplegirl]

52. Waiting for the next letter from my brother in Nam

Terrible time for my mother as she waited....with worry from one
letter to the next from my brother. I was about 12.

[alarcojon]

53. I had a can of Gerber baby food

It was carrot flavored - no, pea flavored - no, wait,..

[TexasBushwhacker]

54. 1969, I was 12

I remember the moon landing.

I remember I started wearing a POW/MIA bracelet that had the name of a friend of my dad's son.

I remember Woodstock and Altamont.

I don't remember getting my first bra but I do remember I was wearing one by that time. I had fishnet stockings in several colors too!

I remember seeing ZZ Top perform at my neighborhood library - LOL.

[davekriss]

55. NY Mets, Jets, and Knicks

Come on, I was 11! A great time to be a New Yorker. Seaver-Koosman-Gentry-Ryan ... were those the starting 4? And Swoboda, Tommie Agee! and Tug McGraw and Cleon Jones ... and then Clyde, I can't count how many times I envisioned myself as Walt Frazier on the basketball court! And Willis Reed. And Namath. I was 11!

I also recall the wonderful coin collection I inherited that year (damn! I had to sell it to pay tuition nearly a decade later). 1802 large cent. Walking liberty halves and Barber quarters. Eagle cents and Morgan dollars! I was 11!!

Politically, I recall more of 1963 and the JFK assassination than I do of 1969. Though I also recall voting for Hubert Humphrey for President in our grade school election in 1968, of RFK's head cradled before death. 2 years later, though, it's a whole other story; two years later and the self I am now came into it's first, fledgling and independent being.

[ironflange]

56. I was 11

Moon landings, war protests, Woodstock, hippies everywhere, an interesting time to be growing up.

[thebaghwan]

59. Strange you should ask! I was just listening to Joan Baez singing the

Battle Hymn of the Republic and I was thinking about something I vividly remember but I think it is more than 35 years ago. RFK was killed and they brought his body back across the country from California to DC by train. This was done so we could pay our respects to a great man. And I remember it was like someplace out in Kansas or something and all these people were on the quay waiting for the train and then the train came and it didn't even slow down, but the people there began to sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic spontaneously and like it was very profound.

[Arugula Latte]

62. Riding around in the back of a truck making a peace sign

I was three -- and there were a bunch of kids riding. I thought we were saying "Peas!"

That we were riding around extolling a veggie never struck me as strange ... Hey, man, it was the 60s.

[stevedeshazer]

63. My dad booked the Grateful Dead for a gig and left town

It caused an infamous hippie invasion of my old home town that is still talked about today.

http://home.earthlink.net/~deadtraders/images/Bullfrog.html

[proud patriot]

64. Nothing I was born in 69

[DoNotRefill]

65. I vaguely remember crapping in my pants...

'68-'69 were a good couple of years...

:)

[Kool Kitty]

66. I was seventeen-

and I remember lots of things from that year. I remember that my favorite perfume was Jean Nate`, and I can still remember the smell. I was in love and I still remember how his face felt when he kissed me. I remember the watching the moon landing. I remember setting the alarm to wake me so I could watch a movie in the middle of the night (pre-VCR days).

[murielm99]

67. I was 21.

I got married that summer.

I remember the moon landing very clearly. I remember being so engrossed in watching it on TV that I spilled a cup of coffee in my crotch while I was wearing a bikini. I remember that blue bikini. I remember sitting in a tub of cold water because of the damn blisters.

I remember the Manson killings.

I remember Woodstock, even though I did not go. I loved Janis Joplin.

I remember my brother being in a nasty head-on collision with a drunk driver on December 7, 1969. His best friend was killed, and he spent two years in rehab.

I remember registering to vote for the very first time at the old courthouse in Wheaton, Illinois. I remember every detail of the room where I registered.

I remember every detail of every room of the house I moved into that year. It was our first home, and I loved it.

[jkbsun]

69. I was a seven old girl who will never forget

I remember many things but the worst came when my aunt( not mother of marine) arrived and I went out to greet her, she was crying and asked for my mother, she was in the tub, and she said go get her now, still crying , I went in and got my mom out of the bathroom and we went to the living room and were told that my cousin a 22 year old marine was killed in Vietnam. He was in a closed casket. I was not allowed to go to the funeral but he was buried in the cemetery across the road from his home so his sister same age as me and I were up in a tree watching from across the road as they played taps and gave him a 21 gun salute. for all my life I will never forget that day or the weeks that followed. And when I took my 85 year old parents to the peace march in Wash DC in Oct 2002 I was able to go to the memorial and touch his name. I find it incredible that the swift boats liars are attacking Kerry simply about telling the truth about what went on over there. the atrocities that went on over there have been common knowledge for years. the fact that he went and fought then came back and fought to get the rest of the soldiers home makes him more of a man than many could imagine.

[Jose Diablo]

71. Was 20-21 that year

What memories I have are just images, I cannot remember the feelings that went with those images. Like I was someone else, if you can understand what I mean.