What's your favorite moment in history

i would be willing to bet that you are right.i just don't see it happening to the extent of forty years ago.perhaps i don't interact with younger people about world events.talk enough with soldiers getting back from overseas duty.but i'm sure it's similar to when we were going through it.many of us comeing back joined the ranks of students and others in demonstrations dedicated to peace.things seem differant now at least in the united states where i live.i don't see the passion that once seemed to permeate....i think without a draft many people have gotten complacent.there isn't that immediate sense of danger there once was.local t.v. crews cover unit deployments and military funerals as human interest stories instead of news..sorry i don't express myself very well when i write or talk but these are just random thoughts on the suject....another turning point in protesting the vietnam war besides the vets getting involved were the older folks joining the ranks.maybe we need to get our voices heard instead of just leaveing it up to the younger people.maybe i need to..

 

I think a lot of people joined the happenings and fun just for well, the fun and the happenings back then
Not saying they were not into peace and love but peace and love was kind of the symbol for the hippie subculture which was one of the big things to be into at the time. When it got populair and the media was on it because it was new and all it may be looked like everyone was aware but my guess is it's not spectaculair more then nowadays, perhaps even less!

 

I'm not saying that there isn't as many people that believe in peace these days as there were in the 1960's. I meant that the late 60's were perhaps the first moment in history that such a large amount of people joined together with the same peaceful philosophies and sense of love and acceptance for one another. It's not called the "love generation" for nothing.

That being said, I do believe that now days there's millions of people that believe in the same things that we came to realize in the 60's. However, it's much more subtle. Things have changed. A huge amount of cultural innocence has been lost, and now violence is apparent everywhere (including music and "entertainment"). For this reason, I definitely do not agree that the sense of love and peace are just a spectacular as they were in the 60's, by any stretch of the imagination.

 

autumn to me is cross country time.the sport they say started in england and i usually associate with that country.distances are between 5-10 kms over various terrain.it is a team sport although runners can run independanly also.i'm glad it's cross country season again.

 

Well, There is no hesitation when I say this. The sixties, all of it is my favorite moment in history. If you guys want specifics though I would end up saying Woodstock as much as it hurts me to pick a favorite moment from the sixties.

 

around 1920 the formation of the national football leaugue.the green bay packers are one of the oldest teams still in existance from that era...the 60's were interesting.like any decade there are many aspects of life to be considered.the more diversified the study the better understanding can be had.

 

My first day of highschool.

 

Clovis uniting the Frankish tribes in Gaul. That deeply affected history up until current times. In fact, it's hard to imagine how much different the world would be if he hadn't done that.

 

It's at least as meaningful that he converted to christianity which in the future served to gain support from for instance the pope for expanding the frankish territory by invading that from the heathens. I'm not sure the franks would have been so influencal in the early medieval age without that, united or not.

 

When King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans held the Persians at Thermopylae and gave their lives for Greece and the fledgling idea of democracy.
A truly pivotal point in history.

Zen

 

The history of marijuana repression from start to finish.

 

When Albert Hoffman made the key.

 

Reconstruction in the United States after the Civil War.

 

I find WW2 to be very interesting also the years immediately after.Maybe because its still kind of living history.But there was some serious shit happening,at no other time was one person so close to taking over the whole world.And never had there been such a massive movement of forces to save freedom for people.I just find it very fascinating.

 

Be here now.

 

when that one fool was all like, Im king and shit.. then he dies... Jesus! I think he got
mad baked too.. he had long hair and a beard.

 

Many issues of the sixties were interesting and long lasting- - However the WW2 era did produce The Greatest Generation as chronicled by TomBrokaw in his best seller. Just an amazing generation when it came to self sacrafice. Really up until that point the USA was not close to being the power it is today. Dont forget these people,s parants had just come out of a major economic depression in the late 20,s to the late 30,s- - then a World War- - Truley an amazing time in US history

If the question is "What was my favorite moment(s)"- -I would go with the energy that the 60,s and when I got home > the early 70,s that this country had. We believed we could make positve lasting changes, and in some ways we did!!!

 

World War 1, followed by World War 2, Imperial Britain, Ancient Greeks and the Aztecs.

Bear in mind in Britain, on top of the economic depression, there was still 4 million World War 1 veterens in Britain (Our costliest war ever with close to one million dead) or the 'War to End All Wars' as it was known, as well as countless families who had endured the loss of a loved one through war. They must truly have lost faith in humanity to see the world desolve into war once again. Plus Britain was in World War 2 right from the beginning and had to endure the Blitz. I have the utmost respect for anyone who lived through it.

 

Your absolutley right- I see your a 18 yr old from Liverpool - I hope you know enuff people or relitatives that can really speak to you about that time- ask questions ! WW2 in Briton went thru an amazing pc of History- hopefully never to be repeated. Think about kids your age- - would they give up all they have to do what thier elders did??? I know not too many18 yr old Americans would- - Hell, I cant even get my old kid to take out the fuckin garbage

 

Agreed. I know most people my age just wouldn't be able to hack it. I like to think I could (I have considered joining the army and may still do it), and I like to think others would but I am not so sure.

My two Granddads are the only people who ever really told me about the war. One of them was a Royal Navyman (As I mentioned in the other thread) and told me quite a few stories- both good and bad. He's dead now however, and when he told me those stories I was quite young and didn't fully appreciate them. I would love to hear them all over again.

My other Granddad is quite a bit younger and tells me stories about his childhood during the Blitz right here in Liverpool. Whenever we drive past certain area's he's always coming out with stories about how that area was bombed into the ground, or how he and his mates found a box of grenades. He lost an uncle and a cousin in the merchant Navy, and he had quite a few other reletives in the Merchant Navy who survived (The British Merchant Navy actually had the highest casualty rate out of all the service branches with 1 in 4 dying).


I get quite annoyed when I think about how bloody useless my generation is so I honestly try not to think about it too much.