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[charliesmum]

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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[silverhill.livejournal.com]

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. :)