History

For a while now I've been looking for something to blog about, and I guess this would have to qualify as something to write about. I've seen "history" made in my lifetime, not all of it good, in fact most bad, or at best just sad.

July 20, 1969 man lands on the moon, I didn't really see it I don't think, but I was alive. This was good. August 9, 1974 Nixon resigns. April 30, 1975 last choppers out of Saigon, the end of the Vietnam War. 4 November 1979 Iran takes US Embassy, hostage crisis begins. 8 December 1980 John Lennon shot. March 30, 1981 an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, and on December 25, 1991 the Soviet Union dissolved.On December 19, 1998 Bill Clinton was impeached and acquitted narrowly of the charges on February 12, 1999. September 11, 2001 is hard to think about even today. I could go on with the Iraq War, the War in Afghanistan, but I think enough time has been spent dwelling on the past.

Tonight, at 11:30 John McCain gave his concession speech, and another moment in history, one I can say I'm proud to have seen, occurred, an African American, a black man if you want, was elected President of the United States of American. September 22, 1862 the Abolition of Slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, was issued. 146 years later Barack Obama is our President Elect.