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[Maria Winslow <maria.winslow AT windows-linux.com>]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:43 am, Sil Greene wrote:
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>
> Most people my age would remember the Challenger explosion but maybe not
> Libya, Beirut, and all the other Middle Eastern fun during the early 80's.
> Who remembers the Yom Kippur War?  The assassination of Anwar Saddat?

I especially remember the Iranian hostage crisis. I was in junior high, and 
my 
friend and I convinced the health teacher (also the track coach) that her 
brother was one of the hostages. [I also convinced him that I had a special 
kind of bladder infection that required me to leave class to go to the 
bathroom for about 20 minutes every day at exactly 11:15, so you see it was 
an easy sell.]

Anyway, the lesson is that if, as a child, you can incorporate world events 
into your schoolkid pranks, you are more likely to remember them.

Maria