Well....I was born in the late '60's....
Apollo 11 going to space in 1969...that was HUGE!!!
Nixon and Watergate in 1972 - tongues were wagging all over the place and being in a military family and living on base?? it was HUGE!
We launched SkyLab in 1973 - we were GLUED to the TV
then we had Roe v Wade in 1973 as well - I remember seeing the protests on TV.
Vietnam was happening and my dad was in it. He and his fellow crew came home and got spit on by protesters that was shocking for me.
I was 4 when I saw a burning cross in our neighbors yard. My dad told me there are stupid people everywhere who are afraid of things they know nothing about.
The Liberal movement started - the "love" generation and was W. in San Francisco in the 1970's!!
Nixon resigned. That was HUGE...
Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 - that was NATURAL disaster...We got ash from it in Southern California....and we had family up in Washington.
The oil crisis of the 1970's - odd and even plates - waiting for over an hour for gas...seeing people pushing their car to the pump because it was on fumes or out..
The one that sticks out the most for me? Is the Iran Hostage crisis followed by the US withdrawing from the Olympics in 1980.
The Challenger space shuttle? I was at work that day. it was horrible.
I landed in Belgium the day Desert Storm started.
We lost a friend at Kobar Towers.
On September 11th, 2001 - I was sitting in at my kitchen table just finishing breakfast with my then 18 month old son recovering from a miscarriage that happened on the 5th and the D&C on the 7th. My son had no clue what was going on. I called my husband at work and told him what was going on. We lost 3 friends at the Pentagon that day. I remember being outside that evening with our neighbors (we live 8 miles from Dulles Airport) and how quiet it was in the sky. Earlier in the day we were able to see the smoke from the Pentagon.
My kids are aware of September 11, 2001. My youngest wasn't born until 2002. We pray that we will not have another one, but with the craziness of Ferguson and New York? It won't be non-Americans that threaten us, but we the people...
I have friends that lost friends in the Twin Towers. I have friends who helped people in the streets. They remember how people were so unified that day and for months to following....