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(@off-he-goes)
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President/Prime Minister: Clinton/Chrétien I was around for Bush's term, as well as Mulroney and Campbell's, but I was to young for them to stand out.

Car: I drove a PT Cruiser that my friends uncle had rented on his vacation. I've never really driven my parents car, drove the accord as scattered time a few years back.

Moment: September 11th, 2001 for sure. I remember the bombing at the '96 olympics also. As well as some music moments earlier.

Vacate is the word...Vengance has no place on me or her...Cannot find a comfort in this world.


   
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(@nicktorres)
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mmmm, I may have to modify the original questions a bit

Prime Minister, King, President, Despot, Dictator are all okay

Now that I think of it the moon landing didn't have that much of an impact on me.

So I'm going to stick in two different ones:

1. John Wayne died, and it occurred to me that even heroes die.
2. The 1972 Munich olympics


   
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(@maxrumble)
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Joined: 20 years ago
Posts: 441
 

Ronald Regan / Pierre Trudeau / Margret Thatcher

1979 Pontiac Parisienne

Even though I have eariler life changing events - September 11 was by far the most life altering.

Cheers,

Max


   
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(@danlasley)
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1) Nixon.
2) Chevy Caravelle Wagon (a larger Impala wagon), probably '72. Abandoned it in Chicago in 1983.
3) Moon landing. We were on vacation and watched on a tiny TV with 20 people outside somewhere. I had plans to become an astronaut until I learned that it was a lot of really hard physical work. It's actually more likely that I could go into space now, than when I was in my 20s.

MLK and RFK killings are vague memories, reinforced by schooling.

-Laz


   
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(@greybeard)
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Joined: 21 years ago
Posts: 5840
 

I vaguely remember Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, but as an Englishman, I remember Anthony Eden
First car was one of these in white:
Yes, it is the Harry Potter car, but I had mine before he had his!
First major event was the suez crisis, although I do have memories of rationing.

I started with nothing - and I've still got most of it left.
Did you know that the word "gullible" is not in any dictionary?
Greybeard's Pages
My Articles & Reviews on GN


   
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(@noteboat)
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Now that I think of it the moon landing didn't have that much of an impact on me.

I felt really well connected to that one... but then Neil Armstrong & company left for the moon on my birthday. Makes a much more positive marking of the day than the previous entry - the first successful test of an atomic weapon!

Guitar teacher offering lessons in Plainfield IL


   
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(@pvtele)
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Joined: 18 years ago
Posts: 477
 

Harold Macmillian

Austin A40 - and it was this colour!

JFK's assassination


   
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(@luvgilmour)
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Posts: 150
 

Carter

Porsche 911 twin turbo (oh that's right - that was a dream) 77 (I think) Fiat X19 Traga...

Three Mile Island Nuclear incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island

PS - that dream made this reality come true:

I'll only be down there (in the basement practicing) for a couple of minutes or so...
My SoundClick Page: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=470725


   
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(@musenfreund)
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I kind of remember Eisenhower but the first real impression was JFK

First car I drove (as in owned not parents's car or driver's ed machine) was a 1963 Ford Fairlane, I believe. The first one I drove was a 1969 Buick Electra that belonged to my mother.

I remember scary things on TV around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of JFK is the perspective changing event.

Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon


   
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(@vic-lewis-vl)
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PM - Harold Wilson
Car - a 1971 Ford Escort - my mum's - though I'd had a few lessons in some Datsun....
Event - although I vaguely remember JFK being shot, the first event I really remember was the Aberfan disaster, when a school in Wales was buried underneath a collapsed slag heap - most of the children who died were round about my age.....

Vic.

"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)


   
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(@ricochet)
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Eisenhower

1971 Pontiac Catalina

The first "perspective changing event" I recall is New Year's Day 1960. I was four. I remember sitting in a chair in the den, looking at the World Books on the shelf (a 1954 set) and thinking, "It's 1960. It's not the '50s anymore, it's the '60s. A whole new decade. Wonder what it'll be like?" No joke.
:shock:

"A cheerful heart is good medicine."


   
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(@ghost)
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Ronald Reagan

1984 GMC pickup truck (currently still not running)

Me getting bitter by a dog when I was 3 or 4 years old and the Challenger explosion.

"If I had a time machine, I'd go back and tell me to practise that bloody guitar!" -Vic Lewis

Everything is 42..... again.


   
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(@crank-n-jam)
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Carter (I called him the peanut president)

First car I drove or first car I owned? First that I drove was a '69 Chrysler Newport Custom with a 440 in it ('course it needed it to move that massive vehicle around). First car I owned was a '77 Monte Carlo.

My first life altering event was probably the birth of my sister. I was almost 8 and no longer the only child. We didn't get along very well until after I moved out of my parents house.

Jason

"Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"


   
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(@anonymous)
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Clinton

First car..............I still drive it...........

No idea what life changing event I've had. Guess Kurt Cobain dying.


   
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(@boogieman)
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Ford, 1980. Datsun 310 (Turd Brown), Iran hostage crisis.


   
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