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I am mostly posting because I want to share my new icon that I pretty much made all by myself using the picture from this website that sells the stickers, because, well, it's cool.

So, since technically it is my icon, if anyone wants it they can take it.

We in the office ordered pizza today, because it was that kind of a day and we got to talking about events in history - one woman was sharing her rememberances that started with President Kennedy getting shot and moving on from there. We all pretty much cover a decent age range, so it was fun seeing who remembered what. This made me decide to do the following poll, covering a couple of events from the 60's to the 80's to see what ya'all remember or at least know about. So...enjoy.

[Poll #527268]

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Funny icon, and fun quiz!

I have very vivid memories of hearing the news about John Lennon being shot. Which is funny, because I had never heard of him until I heard that news (I was only just ending the "playing with toys" era), but for a week or so I went through a little minor obsession over it anyway.

Your icon made me laugh out loud.

I remember the attempted assassination of Reagan I didn't like him much, although most people did. It was still upsetting.

I checked the "horrified" one for Reagan, but I was mostly hoping he'd die. But still, they did make us watch it OVER AND OVER AND OVER on telly.

The Berlin Wall: I checked "Dancing in the streets" but I was actually on a 474 over Greenland.

When the Berlin Wall fell I was eight, and I thought my mother had said the Burlington Mall. (Burlington is a town about a half hour from where I live.) I asked her if that was the one with the really good bookstore.

I visited Berlin in the August 1990. It was amazing, something I'll never forget.

Hee. You amuse me mightily, you know.

I was 12. (For Reagan, I was two and a half; "playing with toys" doesn't seem to quite cover it!)

I'd heard about all of those things - go me! - but I was only alive for one of them - I was three months old exactly when the Berlin Wall fell. So possibly I was less with the actually playing with toys and more with the just lying there and gurgling!

I feel like I need an in-between answer for the Berlin Wall. I was 12, so I remember it, and I remember the news coverage ... but I don't think I quite realized at the time just how significant it was. I understood what it was about, knew that it was a good thing and was happy -- but it wasn't until I was older that I realized how cool it was.

When I was in college, I took a course titled "History 373 -- The Age of Ascendancy: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1945." The final, basically, was to summarize the course. After three hours of writing (about the Truman Doctrine, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, etc., etc., etc.), my brain had turned to mush, so I summarized the fall of the Berlin Wall thus: "And then the Berlin Wall came down and everyone was happy" and drew a celebrating stick figure. I got an A in the course. :)

Wow. This m3m3 made me feel young. :D

And I spent the day feeling old, thinking of how I work with kids that were toddlers when Challenger exploded and that have no idea what a Karma Chameleon is, or whom never owned a record. :D

I'm so young.

*starts crying silently*

I rememer seeing on TV about the Berlin Wall, but, at the ago of 9-10, I didnt really get it.

I'll join the rest of the young people saying I did hear about Berlin wall. I wonder what it was 'though because back in '89 I was still in USSR.
Being so young I didn't get what was the big deal with knocking down a wall.

I do have a story about Nixon. I was three when the Watergate trials began, and I remember watching the news broadcasts and hearing the name "Nixon" and the word "Watergate," but they didn't mean much to me. That's one of my first really clear memories!

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