Where were you in 1989?

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Posted: 1/20/2006 8:04:01 PM EDT

Thinking back on my days in the military, it occurred to me (since I was 17 when I joined) that people born in 1989 are now eligible for military service.

Jeez...it doesn't seem that long ago.

-Tiananmen Square
-The fall of the Berlin Wall
-Invasion of Panama

Time flies...where were you?

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:05:29 PM EDT

[#1]

AIT at Bragg

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:06:25 PM EDT

[#2]

I was in Ft. Worth, TX. I was around 8 years old or so.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:06:55 PM EDT

[#3]

La Petit preschool in North Tacoma.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:08:03 PM EDT

[#4]

Same place I am right now, working mids at the Cop Shop.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:08:25 PM EDT

[#5]

11th grade

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:09:18 PM EDT

[#6]

Graduated high school in June 89. Had a P/T job at a car dealer, was still with my first real girl friend. Got a job that fall with the utility company reading meters(dad got me in). I quit that winter. Joined USN the next year.

Hair bands ruled. Chicks had high hair and bright makeup. There were no low rider jeans, bare midrifts, etc back then. Wwe had chicks with Poison Tshirts and such. Kids now adays have no idea... evermind

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:09:47 PM EDT

[#7]

Hunter Army Airfield Savannah,Ga
i was a lonely Pv2.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:09:50 PM EDT

[#8]

In my mother's womb.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:10:26 PM EDT

[#9]

3rd grade

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:10:45 PM EDT

[#10]

being a toddler and terrorizing my parents probably....

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:10:52 PM EDT

[#11]

My first child was born in January of '89.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:11:36 PM EDT

[#12]

In the 2nd grade

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:14:28 PM EDT

[#13]

Screwing around with Bawks in the KYArNG. Fuelers get it done with big hoses.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:15:23 PM EDT

[#14]

I was seven years old

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:16:50 PM EDT

[#15]

1-2 years old, where I am now.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:17:33 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
1-2 years old, where I am now.

Damn I thought I was young..

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:17:56 PM EDT

[#17]

Kindergarden. I have since gotten older, but have not matured one bit

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:18:02 PM EDT

[#18]

McMurdo Station Antarctia VXE-6

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:18:15 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:

Time flies...where were you?

Let's see ...

30 years old , married with a 1 year old daughter and a Jumbo mortgage
at 12.9 % , working my ass off because the wife decided she wanted
to be a stay at home mom .

Come to think of it , that's just about the time I started to learn
how to read the handwriting on the wall

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:19:03 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
11th grade

-1

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:20:58 PM EDT

[#21]

I lived in Wichita Falls Texas

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:23:13 PM EDT

[#22]

Naval Magazine, Cubi Pt, PI

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:24:29 PM EDT

[#23]

Okinawa

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:24:48 PM EDT

[#24]

kindergarden.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:25:30 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Thinking back on my days in the military, it occurred to me (since I was 17 when I joined) that people born in 1989 are now eligible for military service.

Jeez...it doesn't seem that long ago.

-Tiananmen Square
-The fall of the Berlin Wall
-Invasion of Panama

Time flies...where were you?

I was there.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:26:00 PM EDT

[#26]

Three years out of the Marine Corps and still in school in Portland Oregon.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:26:04 PM EDT

[#27]

In Fulda waiting for the wall to fall and the ensuing invasion of east German's..

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:28:38 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Quoted:
11th grade

-1

Me too....10th grade....class of '91

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:28:50 PM EDT

[#29]

I was going to punk rock and hardcore shows, still in highschool, doing typical highschool stuff, listening to Op Ivy, Bad Religion, GG Allin, Slapshot, Agnostic Front, The Go-Go's, and Forced Reality.

That being said, I was even at that time a political junkie, and very much remember being very aware of everything that was going on. It was a hell of a time the late 80's for sure.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:32:34 PM EDT

[#30]

I drove a truck for UPS then

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:35:57 PM EDT

[#31]

Graduating HS. 1st year of college.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:36:25 PM EDT

[#32]

First year of HS
working parttime in my folk's pawn shop

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:37:56 PM EDT

[#33]

I believe I was in 8th grade.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:40:26 PM EDT

[#34]

Senior in High School

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:44:50 PM EDT

[#35]

Auburn University...damn those were some good years.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:48:58 PM EDT

[#36]

I was in my early 20's "dating" a nice Hispanic lady in her mid 40's...Funny thing is her son (now 40 like me) works in the same office that I do...He was grown and out of the house when I was humping his mama but sometimes when he walks past my desk I wonder if he knows..Its really freaky what goes on inside my head when I'm talking to him sometime

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:51:46 PM EDT

[#37]

THATS the year I married the best person the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Went to Alaska on a two week honeymoon. Had sex like rabits in some of the best places God ever made

.

Still go to Alaska now and then, put a couple of good children in local schools, stay active in community and work, and am still in love with the best person in the world

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:54:58 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Quoted:
11th grade

-1

10th - 11th grade, class of '91

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:56:05 PM EDT

[#39]

In 1989, I left my career in the medical electronics field and started a new career in the commercial radio business.

I'm still there 17 years later.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:57:03 PM EDT

[#40]

3 years old not even potty trained hahah

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:58:24 PM EDT

[#41]

I was living in West Berlin, My father was Comander of the American Air Corder over East Germany.

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:59:16 PM EDT

[#42]

4 years old...

Posted: 1/20/2006 8:59:55 PM EDT

[#43]

Rhein Main Air Base

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:00:02 PM EDT

[#44]

I was there.

Really? In 1990-92 my dad was Vice Comander of Tempelhof Airbase in Berlin.

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:00:14 PM EDT

[#45]

2nd year of college.

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:01:33 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:
Three years out of the Marine Corps and still in school in Portland Oregon.

Come vist the hometown forum damnit!

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:05:58 PM EDT

[#47]

91c school

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:07:07 PM EDT

[#48]

In the Navy, about a year from getting out. I was stationed at Cecil Field, Fl.

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:11:04 PM EDT

[#49]

Sitting in a UH-60 on the flight line in 25th Idiot Dimesnion, waiting for things to get bad...somewhere.

Posted: 1/20/2006 9:11:51 PM EDT

[#50]

well, for Tiananmen Square, it was early Saturday morning, and I was at in my parents' living room.

I was 9

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