The Berlin Wall came down during my senior year of college, and the Challenger exploded during my senior year of high school. It was very odd realizing at Readercon that someone born when I was old enough to drink is now old enough to vote (and of course the same is true reversing drink/vote).
As an Army brat, my big memory of late 1989 was the invasion of Panama since my father had been transferred to SOUTHCOM less than two weeks beforehand; that was after he'd been at a conference at the Presidio, and standing at the airline counter at SFO when the Loma Prieta quake hit. We were wondering what might happen to Boston when he came for my graduation....
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Date: 2009-08-19 08:45 pm (UTC)As an Army brat, my big memory of late 1989 was the invasion of Panama since my father had been transferred to SOUTHCOM less than two weeks beforehand; that was after he'd been at a conference at the Presidio, and standing at the airline counter at SFO when the Loma Prieta quake hit. We were wondering what might happen to Boston when he came for my graduation....