I was in high school...I remember cutting an entire day of classes to protest. They put TVs in school too, in the cafeteria, in the lounge outside the library and the front hallway. Plus the TV that was always in the Commons.
Funny thought...teachers were allowed to give us double cut slips for that day, and I got none. My parents said nothing about my cutting an entire day of classes either. Mom just reminded me to make sure I dressed warmly enough and didn't get arrested.
I found out I was pregnant the day we announced we were invading. I was stuck in this amazing surreal mental fuck as I pondered the new life growing inside of me and the fact that we were going to war. Still strange to think about that. /val
I was in my Junior year of college. Everyone would crowd into my little dorm room to watch the evening news on my TV. Reactions varied from "yeah! get 'em!" to outright "what the hell are we doing there?" horror.
Even though we actually declared... well, whatever it was we declared... on January 16th, the newspaper headlines that screamed "WAR!!!" were on January 17, 1991.
For those of you that can subtract and know my age... yup. That was my 18th birthday. I still have the newspaper squirreled away somewhere, commemorating my 18th birthday worldwide as the first American war of my lifetime. :/
Bleh. You do feel old when what you still think of as "current events" (or at least "that stuff that happened a couple of years ago) is what younger people consider "history".
My dad was in UW-Madison having a quadruple heart bypass. I remember sitting in the waiting room after his surgery and his 'almost-death' (they had a hard time restarting his heart).
The conflict in the gulf was the backdrop to my life. I remember Stone Phillips giving daily reports and the stir he caused because he was so cute.
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Re: Gah
Date: 2002-11-13 12:23 pm (UTC)Funny thought...teachers were allowed to give us double cut slips for that day, and I got none. My parents said nothing about my cutting an entire day of classes either. Mom just reminded me to make sure I dressed warmly enough and didn't get arrested.
War and babies
Date: 2002-11-13 12:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-13 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-13 02:36 pm (UTC)For those of you that can subtract and know my age... yup. That was my 18th birthday. I still have the newspaper squirreled away somewhere, commemorating my 18th birthday worldwide as the first American war of my lifetime. :/
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Date: 2002-11-13 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-11-14 06:16 am (UTC)The conflict in the gulf was the backdrop to my life. I remember Stone Phillips giving daily reports and the stir he caused because he was so cute.