milehiiu Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 15 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: @tdhoosier Mask wars of 1918 I believe this is the one. I find it interesting that the Red Cross was the entity making the masks for the Seattle police officers. Not saying they are not now. But so many average citizens are or have been making masks during our current pandemic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdhoosier Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 20 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: @tdhoosier Mask wars of 1918 I believe this is the one. Thanks. Good article. The interview I linked above goes into it a bit further too, if you're interested in checking it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegrassIU Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 49 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said: @tdhoosier Mask wars of 1918 I believe this is the one. Fascinating. The more things change..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 I wonder how pervasive the mask mandate was in 1918 though? The cited article mentions mostly the west coast...I wonder if there's any article that defines what states/counties/cities/towns mandated that masks be worn.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 When Al Gore invented the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 2 hours ago, milehiiu said: Certainly was a defining moment in my life. I did a daily news show on my high school radio station. It was rip an read off a teletype. And I was allowed to leave study hall to prepare and do the show. One day (Nov.22) the study hall teacher comes up to me and tells me to get down to station, well before the normal time. I get there and the teacher/station manager tells me that President Kennedy has been shot. Get on right now ! As I am reading.... the teacher/station manager hands me a fresh teletype. I read it on the air.... not knowing what it was about. Kennedy was dead ! I had just turned six and remember our first grade class was coming from lunch or recess. My Mom worked in the school cafeteria, and I saw her leaning up against a wall, one foot on the ground, and one on the wall, crying. I broke out of line and asked her what was wrong. "They shot the president." Not many indelible images from that long ago in my childhood, but that's damn sure one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steubenhoosier Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 1954 Brown v the Board of Education Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoosierFaithful Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 3 hours ago, milehiiu said: How the Louisiana Purchase Changed the World Great addition. Hard to argue with Civil War, Depression, WWII though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 18 minutes ago, HoosierFaithful said: Great addition. Hard to argue with Civil War, Depression, WWII though. Thanks HF. Agree with you on the others, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 1 hour ago, IUFLA said: I had just turned six and remember our first grade class was coming from lunch or recess. My Mom worked in the school cafeteria, and I saw her leaning up against a wall, one foot on the ground, and one on the wall, crying. I broke out of line and asked her what was wrong. "They shot the president." Not many indelible images from that long ago in my childhood, but that's damn sure one... Another memory of Nov. 22. My high school radio station broadcast our basketball games. We had a game scheduled for that night. Question, then became... would there be a game that night. Answer : Yes... because that's what he would have wanted. I did not do the broadcast that night. I was the engineer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 Signing of The Declaration of Independence Creation of The Constitution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reacher Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 5 hours ago, milehiiu said: How the Louisiana Purchase Changed the World This article doesn't really explain why and how the LP changed the world. The two articles below discuss the importance of the MS river basin to the growth of the US and what led to our inevitable superpower status. For that reason, the LP deserves to be in the top 5 defining moments IMO. Short version-https://peakygeopolitic.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/the-importance-of-rivers/ https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-united-states-part-1-inevitable-empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrflynn03 Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 1968: The Year That Changed America Forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IU Scott Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 September 6th 1970 I was born LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 2 hours ago, HoosierFaithful said: Great addition. Hard to argue with Civil War, Depression, WWII though. One could argue The treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo combined with the Louisiana Purchase and Sewards Folly are huge in this conversation! Especially when you consider more than half of the US lands and resources came about because of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IUFLA Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 45 minutes ago, IU Scott said: September 6th 1970 I was born LOL! And baseball metrics were invented on September 7th, 1970! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 8 minutes ago, Drroogh said: One could argue The treaty-of-guadalupe-hidalgo combined with the Louisiana Purchase and Sewards Folly are huge in this conversation! Especially when you consider more than half of the US lands and resources came about because of them! Especially when you add in this to consider about the Civil War! Mexican-American War: Aftermath Although Polk’s war was successful, he lost public support after nearly two bloody and costly years of fighting. Additionally, the controversial war reignited the slavery extension debate that would ultimately result in the American Civil War in the 1860s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierhoopster Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 8 hours ago, IUFLA said: The Revolutionary War? Seems to me that would be THE defining moment... Minor oversight 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Hoosierhoopster said: Minor oversight 😁 I saw you had posted and expected to see 'Paul George's NBA debut'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierhoopster Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 7 hours ago, rico said: Roe v. Wade anyone? Brown v Board of education - desegregation, is clearly one of the defining moments in our history. Roe is up there The Moon Landing Vietnam 9/11 Fouls 5th divorce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierhoopster Posted August 25, 2020 Report Share Posted August 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, 5fouls said: I saw you had posted and expected to see 'Paul George's NBA debut'. Paul George’s birth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 So all you American History Buffs, you really want to go out and learn about history! Go out and experience history through the eyes of other countries! I know people from Mexico that really don’t think the peasant victory of Cinco De Mayo is near the importance as Mexico’s Independence! Turns out Cinco De Mayo may have been more important to America‘a history! Do some research! Can remember a business trip to Reynosa Mexico, my friend and I stop in a small bar to get a drink. The guy next to my friend asks who that is behind him? We look around to see a life size picture on the wall.I simply reply that’s Pancho Villa. He bought us a round! Can tell you about my friends from Europe especially my best friend in Russia if you want to hear a different perspective on History! And yes I know many people from the former Soviet Union that hate Russia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 2 minutes ago, Drroogh said: So all you American History Buffs, you really want to go out and learn about history! Go out and experience history through the eyes of other countries! I know people from Mexico that really don’t think the peasant victory of Cinco De Mayo is near the importance as Mexico’s Independence! Turns out Cinco De Mayo may have been more important to America‘s history! Do some research! Can remember a business trip to Reynosa Mexico, my friend and I stop in a small bar to get a drink. The guy next to my friend asks who that is behind him? We look around to see a life size picture on the wall.I simply reply that’s Pancho Villa. He bought us a round! Can tell you about my friends from Europe especially my best friend in Russia if you want to hear a different perspective on History! And yes I know many people from the former Soviet Union that hate Russia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drroogh Posted August 26, 2020 Report Share Posted August 26, 2020 And my apologies a simple edit ended up with a double blast! Just going to end with if you live in a small world then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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