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1/31/2011 1:53:29 PM EDT
Whats it mean to you?
1/31/2011 1:55:01 PM EDT
[#1]
Not that I was alive yet, but:






 
1/31/2011 1:55:39 PM EDT
[#2]
eh'


I've always been more of an 84 man myself
1/31/2011 1:56:46 PM EDT
[#3]
Graduated from high school.
1/31/2011 1:57:16 PM EDT
[#4]
The year that I discoverd the Clash, and the year that my parents took me to see Johnny Cash.
1/31/2011 1:57:33 PM EDT
[#5]
Turned 13...

So, I was out riding wheelies on my BMX by day, and sneaking peeks at skinimax by night!
1/31/2011 1:57:58 PM EDT
[#6]
Son born.
1/31/2011 1:58:11 PM EDT
[#7]

1/31/2011 1:58:15 PM EDT
[#8]
George Orwell was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"
1/31/2011 1:58:19 PM EDT
[#9]
Lot of good movies that summer (see Wargames above).  Good time for a 17 year old.

Oh and in Dec I got to swear to "Support the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic", my Father swore me in.
1/31/2011 1:59:21 PM EDT
[#10]



Quoted:


Not that I was alive yet, but:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcEzhQ7oqA

 


ToneLoc, BBS, Wardialing and 300bps modems.



Damn I miss the 80's and 90's.



 
1/31/2011 1:59:30 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
Turned 13...

So, I was out riding wheelies on my BMX by day, and sneaking peeks at skinimax by night!


+1.  Everything.

1/31/2011 2:00:18 PM EDT
[#12]
Quoted:
Orson Wells was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"


Orson Wells?
1/31/2011 2:01:04 PM EDT
[#13]
I was in Germany.
1/31/2011 2:01:42 PM EDT
[#14]



Quoted:


Graduated from high school.






 
1/31/2011 2:02:11 PM EDT
[#15]



Quoted:



Quoted:

Orson Wells was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"




Orson Wells?






 
1/31/2011 2:02:12 PM EDT
[#16]
I was 17, had a '76 Granada to drive, slutty girlfriend to bang, buds with weed, other buds that could "buy", buncha concerts that year too. I only remember the good parts.
1/31/2011 2:02:37 PM EDT
[#17]
Good time to be born
1/31/2011 2:02:42 PM EDT
[#18]
My wife was born in 1983.
1/31/2011 2:02:50 PM EDT
[#19]



Quoted:





Quoted:

Graduated from high school.




 


Me too

 
1/31/2011 2:03:19 PM EDT
[#20]
Plenty of safe poon.
1/31/2011 2:03:29 PM EDT
[#21]
Let's see:

The beginning of my existence, plus some of my favorite stuff:



1/31/2011 2:03:48 PM EDT
[#22]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Orson Wells was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"


Orson Wells?


Straight from the Ministry of Truth!
1/31/2011 2:04:18 PM EDT
[#23]
I got my EIB and went to NTC for the first time in 1983.
1/31/2011 2:04:34 PM EDT
[#24]





The topic is "1983" and you post a current picture of site staff?

 
1/31/2011 2:05:58 PM EDT
[#25]
Damn thread makes me feel old.   I was 33 and had been railroading 10 yrs.

––IS
1/31/2011 2:06:02 PM EDT
[#26]
A Great Tune from Electric Ladyland.

1983
1/31/2011 2:06:47 PM EDT
[#27]



Quoted:





Quoted:




Quoted:

Graduated from high school.




 


Me too  







 
1/31/2011 2:08:15 PM EDT
[#28]



Quoted:





Quoted:




Quoted:

Graduated from high school.




 


Me too  


+1



Good times.



 
1/31/2011 2:08:15 PM EDT
[#29]
Quoted:
Graduated from high school.



Same here !


1/31/2011 2:08:32 PM EDT
[#30]
I was already talking to recruiters and planning on taking the ASVAB and I was jamming out pretty damned hard to Hank Jr , "A Country Boy Can Survive" IIRC
 
1/31/2011 2:09:40 PM EDT
[#31]
Marine Barracks in Beirut were bombed on October 23rd. This year marks the 28th anniversary.

When I was a young PFC our Company Gunny was a Beirut vet. God help the soul that didn't now the significance of Oct 28th 1983 if he asked you.


1/31/2011 2:09:59 PM EDT
[#32]
We all almost died during Able Archer.

Grenada.

Barracks Bombing.  The absolute low-point of the Reagan Presidency.  We should have leveled Hizbullah.
1/31/2011 2:10:20 PM EDT
[#33]
Violation of constitutional rights under color of law.
1/31/2011 2:12:37 PM EDT
[#34]
I was 2, so I don't remember much.

When I look back, it makes me think of a time that I wish that I could have experienced as an older child.
1/31/2011 2:12:40 PM EDT
[#35]
Freshman in HS.

Got my DL.

First serious girlfriend.

Endless hours of making out and watching MTV.
1/31/2011 2:13:55 PM EDT
[#36]
Got my first "real" job as a technical writer, which was the first step on a career path that I'm still on.
1/31/2011 2:14:13 PM EDT
[#37]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Orson Wells was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"


Orson Wells?


George Orwell.......now i feel like an idiot!
1/31/2011 2:14:56 PM EDT
[#38]



Quoted:



Quoted:

Orson Wells was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"




Orson Wells?
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pear Harbor?



Forget it, he's on a roll!





 
1/31/2011 2:14:58 PM EDT
[#39]
I was 15.
1/31/2011 2:15:04 PM EDT
[#40]
This,







this







This







This







And plenty of others... you know, pretty much the greatest era of metal to ever exist.  Oh, and the fact that I could jerk it like 20 times a day and STILL chase my girlfriend around....



-V
1/31/2011 2:16:16 PM EDT
[#41]



Quoted:


Graduated from high school.






 
1/31/2011 2:18:10 PM EDT
[#42]




Quoted:





Quoted:





Quoted:

Graduated from high school.






Me too


Me three...

1/31/2011 2:18:51 PM EDT
[#43]
Quoted:
George Orwell was thinking...."Well crap. Unless all hell breaks loose in the next few months, I got my book all wrong!"


Who now?

1/31/2011 2:20:45 PM EDT
[#44]
I got married and pie would not kill you
1/31/2011 2:22:13 PM EDT
[#45]
U.S. became a debtor nation.
1/31/2011 2:22:27 PM EDT
[#46]
yr i was born.
1/31/2011 2:22:55 PM EDT
[#47]
Quoted:
The year that I discoverd the Clash, and the year that my parents took me to see Johnny Cash.


You lucky Bastard.
1/31/2011 2:23:34 PM EDT
[#48]



Quoted:


Whats it mean to you?


1983 is the year I graduated.



 
1/31/2011 2:23:53 PM EDT
[#49]







1/31/2011 2:24:51 PM EDT
[#50]





Quoted:



We all almost died during Able Archer.





Grenada.





Barracks Bombing.  The absolute low-point of the Reagan Presidency.  We should have leveled Hizbullah.



This.





At this point I had been on active duty since 1980.
 
 
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