The 1980 election loomed oddly large in elementary school. Rumor was a teacher (not mine) did a lesson where he had kids reenact being held hostage in Iran. Dad came home on Election Day irritated that the news had called the election for Reagan before the polls even closed.
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Walking a picket line with my mother in the 70s, protesting the school board to get higher wages for teachers like her.
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We lived next to the school do my mom invited the striking teachers into our house for coffee everyday ..
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In fifth grade when my father told me: “The walls, windows, doors—all you see, smell, or feel around you, everything and everywhere—have ears. They can hear your words when you talk about the president, his friends, or politics. They can even hear your whispers.”
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My Dad having me watch Nixon resign due to Watergate. I was 8 years old and remember him saying history was being made.
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MLK’s Mountaintop speech. He was killed the next day. I was 12
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The Cuban Revolution.
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“ I did not have sexual relations with that woman “ Clinton was the first president I remember seeing on TV and my mom quickly changed the channel!
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Third grade class 'vote' for president in '84--the results for Mondale were an unfortunate bellwether of what was to come......
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I voted for Mondale in my 2nd grade class.
I was one of only 3 students in my class to do so. So proud of my 7 year old self.
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