What major historical events do you remember?
Probably not in perfect chronological order are the major historical events that I remember, some vividly.
The first event I mention may be the most vivid in my mind. I remember my teacher standing before the class looking so very human and vulnerable to tell us carefully that the President of the United States had been shot. At first, I didn’t know what to think, but I know I had lots of questions, but didn’t know if I should.
Years later, I was the teacher standing before a classroom of students who had just watched a teacher, Christa McAuliffe and six other crew members disappear in the smoke and debris of the Space Shuttle Challenger. I knew they had questions, so I assured them not to be afraid to ask, but try not to be disappointed if we fellow humans cannot answer them adequately.
I grew from child to adolescent teen watching space travel grow from orbiting unmanned to manned to landing on the moon to building and inhabiting space stations to private businessmen building and launching their own rockets to SpaceX.
I remember Viet Nam, the Democratic National Convention of 1968, Civil Rights Marches, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, Sr. I watched the Watergate hearings, Clinton/Lewinski, two Impeachments of Donald Trump, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, the Iran hostage crisis, and the end of the USSR.
I also heard about the first color TV and the first portable phone and eventually both came to our house, one as a kid, the other as a purchaser. I heard about the first electric car, but have yet to own one.
I’m just scratching the surface of the historical things I remember, most of them hitting close to home. If I don’t stop now, I’ll start recalling Mandela’s experiences, Israeli wars, the formation of European Union, and of course COVID.
When I think about my seventy-five years, I recall a lot and I would guess have forgotten or tucked away overshadowed by more direct and vivid recollections so much more history making memories.
Everything in the recall or retreated events contribute to the formation of my current fleshly mindset. They can fester there as disturbances to or factor as learning and growing towards a full rich life. That choice is up to me. To know the way I’m choosing, read Romans 12: 1,2.
Categories: Personal Insight
Douglas Knight
I have the rich life full of a sinner wounded by misunderstanding and punishment but blessed by mercy and forgiveness.
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