Opinions and Perspectives ~ What are Some Historic Events You Lived Through?

I am an old lady with a Tumblr account, and I can tell the Tumblr community has a lot of young people. I stumbled across a post, and the person was saying they were very upset about living through a historic event RIGHT NOW. It was a reference to our 2024 presidential elections.  Trump won!

But then I thought to myself:  How many historic events have I lived through?

At the time, those events were also upsetting.

Let me think. I've lived through:

1. Introduction of new technology: Television (50s) and Internet (90s)
2. 3 assassinations – John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
3. 3 POTUS Impeachments – Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump (impeached twice)
4. The passage of the Civil Rights Act
5. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon
6. Richard Speck - 1st serial killer or mass murderer I knew about
7. The Vietnam War and “Flower Power”
8. Iran-Contra Affair
9. Fall of the Berlin Wall
10. Oklahoma City Bombing
11. Sept 11th Attack
12. Death of Osama bin Laden and several other high-profile terrorists
13. COVID-19 Pandemic
14. January 6 Capitol Riot
15. Yom Kippur War in 1973 & 50 years later same conflict, same people, on Yom Kippur AGAIN!
16. Several Landmark Supreme Court Decisions from Roe v. Wade to the overturning of Roe V Wade
17. MASS SHOOTINGS – 1960s at the University of Texas; 1980s at a McDonald's in California; 1990s at Luby's Cafeteria in Texas and at Columbine High School … It's 2024, and NOW there are so many mass shootings that we maintain a database of the incidents.

There are more. On my various social media accounts (Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter) [**], etc.), I have "marked" other historic events after Trump took office. It's grueling and tiresome.

These events are memorable. But so far, I lived through them.

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 [**] [NOTE: My X account is set for my posts to be publicly visible for public viewing. But for some reason, people who aren’t signed in to the platform can NOT see my account activity. The appropriate box in MY privacy and security settings is unchecked, which means the posts should be publicly visible, But they are not! If you are not signed in and you visit my profile page, it shows “@cmoneypinner hasn't posted”. THAT'S A BIG OLD LIE! I post plenty! Anyway! It's a free social media account. Elon Musk, the owner of X, who claims he promotes and protects free speech, can likely blame technology for not allowing MY public posts to reach a public audience.]