Where were YOU?................in 1972???

[Darth_Kitten]

I was at home, I was a little kid. Wasn't old enough to go to kindergarten yet. :evilgrin:

See, nothing so bad about telling the world where you were. (hint hint Mr. Uh, President?)

;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Grafton, Wisconsin. And I have plenty of people who saw me there...

:hi:

Good to see you DK. Haven't seen you in awhile.

[Darth_Kitten]

6. I'm never far.....thanks!!

Right back at cha!!! :hi: :D

[DRoseDARs]

2. Nine years away from being born.

eom

[Deja Q]

3. Until May of that year, I was

doing somersaults and backflips in mommy's widdle stomach.

But I got tired of the cramped space so I, uh, came out early. 3 months early.

Weighed 2 pounds 15 oz. Then almost immediately afterward I went on a diet. Got down to 2 pounds 1 oz until I realized that that particular time wasn't a good time to start dieting.

[Darth_Kitten]

8. man, that's light for a baby!!!!

glad you pulled through okay!!! :D

[salinen]

4. I was taking Drivers Ed

[skygazer]

5. I was eleven

Riding horses, hiking in the woods, going to school.

Man, that was a long time ago!!

[blue neen]

I was in high school, watching Nixon's ship sink, just like I'm

watching Chimpy's sink now.

[candy331]

11. In Fla waiting for hubby to come home from his 2nd tour in Vietnam

nt

[jukes]

7. Police Academy

then assigned to patrol duties.

[Lovecrafty]

9. Probably sucking my mother's tit!! I was one year old!

[Mojambo]

10. Lounging in my fathers loins. n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. The Republic of Viet Nam, thank you Mr. Bush for keeping

Texas safe.

[Ilsa]

13. Fish in high school. The guys were

wondering if they were going to be drafted in three years. Even after 1973, registering for the draft made them nervous.

[izzie]

14. Trying to get our of So. Car. I was a Yankee and they hated us.

We were called some pretty odd names.

[bigmonkey]

15. 16, in High School.

Thinking, right about this time that year, that I didn't need to do any political work for McGovern, because he seemed so popular. I lived in Massachusetts, the only state he got in the Electoral College. All politics may be local somewhere, but you need to keep the big picture in mind too!

[MuseRider]

16. 1st year of college

learning to do lots of things my parents told me never to do. It was a great year for me!

[medeak]

57. me too

oh this is wierd Muse.

Wasted a year doing everything protective parents wouldn't allow.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose....

[LondonAmerican]

17. In 6th grade

in Cleveland OH

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

18. Elementary school, Lanham, MD.

[amber dog democrat]

19. In Galveston

stationed on a Navy Destroyer for half that year and in Austin returning to school on the GI Bill later that fall.

[knowbody0]

23. 1972

marching protesting resisting helping guys into canada kerry was my hero

[amber dog democrat]

30. I was almost persuaded to desert

on a cruise to New Orleans. Kind of glad I did not, but I did help some one to go AWOL permenantly. Remember calling the cab for him from the quarter deck as messenger of the watch.

I admired the war protesters. Thought they were morally occupying the high ground.

[BrotherBuzz]

20. I was in the Army

taking up the slot Bush* might have filled if he hadn't bought his seat in the TANG. Hell, in effect, my getting drafted and serving makes me an enabler for Bush* to be able to sit it out.

[markdd]

21. Working for McGovern

In Oklahoma as a freshly minted 18 year old voter.

[amber dog democrat]

31. That was the first candidate I voted for

ever. Not that he won, but it made me feel better Awesome.

[gardenista]

49. Me too. 13 yr. old leafleting for McGovern nt

[miss_kitty]

senior year highschool

so i was at home, or driving around with Patty in the 'Young Buck' the blue convertible of hers, buying a quarter's worth of gas, a fiddy cent pack o' smokes and a Hefty Burger, and getting pretty wrecked. and showing up at school to take the tests, and to remind the teachers who i was...

[HEyHEY]

22. I know where Ironflange was! - seeing as how Canada won the WCH tonight..

Ironflange was in Moscow watching the summit series LIVE!!!

[ironflange]

44. Thanks for remembering!

I was gonna post that! It's hard to believe it was so many years ago.



I was 14, skinny little punk, and good ol' Dad got us these all-inclusive 10-day packages: flight, hotel, all meals, games, tours, all for - get this - $900 each. It was a real experience, believe me. We stayed in the Hotel Ukraine, one of those huge pointy Stalin skyscrapers. Corner room on the 29th floor, spectacular view. Even got to see Lenin's Tomb, though we had to stand in line like everybody else. It was a great time, very interesting view of a place that no longer exists.

[PinkTiger]

24. I was in Occoquan Virginia, reeling from Hurricane Agnes and

wishing I could get out of a terrible marriage, wishing I knew how to register to vote so I could cast my ballot for McGovern and wishing I had a decent job.
I'm better now.
LOL

[Darth_Kitten]

25. Wow! What a trip down memory lane......

:hi:

[Bossy Monkey]

26. Fifth grade, squinting a lot

because I waited way too long before getting my first pair of glasses, and not 'cause I was high, coked up or hungover, like certain prodigal sons we could name

[AlFrankenFan]

27. 18 years before I was born n/t

[Darth_Kitten]

28. Wow!

Welcome! ;)

[gospelized]

29. i was about

negative 4.

[RobinA]

32. 9th/10th Grade

Wondering what was the big deal that the VP candidate was treated for depression. My grandmother was treated for depression, and she seemed fine. Might have even made a good VP.

[yvr girl]

33. In the fall, I was just starting kindergarten

On one terrible day, I was 'attacked' by a big dog on my way to school. It is one of the few things I remember. To be fair, I think the dog just wanted to say 'hi' and knocked me down in the process. I wasn't bitten.

[NightTrain]

34. I was 6 years old...

...and looked like this:

[Darth_Kitten]

37. ahhh..........

You look very sweet and cute. ;) :D

[tainted_chimp]

39. Awww!

I was in the 2nd grade and probably had a crush on someone who looked like you.

:silly:

[slutticus]

35. In a sac.

Actually....."In an ovary" would be more accurate, but not as funny.

[Philostopher]

36. Second grade.

I remember watching my cousin open his draft notice and that look on his face, even though he was pretty sure his draft number was fairly safe. He never got called up -- he was right that his lottery number wasn't likely to be called. Still, that's a heavy thing to face when you're 18 years old. He'd have had to go, too, if they'd called him -- working class family, his dad had no high-powered political buddies or strings to pull to get him in the National Guard, and he wasn't planning on going to college at that point because he didn't have the money, he was going to have to work for a couple of years and save to be able to do it.

[fudge stripe cookays]

38. 1st grade.

Mrs. Molly Lou Keeling's class, Wooldridge Elementary School, Austin, Texas.

FSC :-)

[CRK7376]

40. Watching Frank Shorter

(Gold in the Marathon)Mark Spitz(7Golds), Dave Wottle(Gold in the 800m), and Pre kick ass in Munich...Unfortunately Pre placed 4th and I was watching the tube from NC and starting the 8th grade....

[KamaAina]

41. At a McGovern rally in Md.

on Mom's shoulders.

Final tally of the elem. school vote: Nixon 13, McGovern 2. And yes, I do know who the other filthy dirty unpatriotic commie pinko was.

[ikojo]

42. Springfield, Illinois

attending elementary school.

[1monster]

43. Getting my first job in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania... with a 60 something

boss who called me "GIRL!" or dingaling or dumdum or a variety of other demeaning names... anything but my name.

I was so scared of him that I was afraid to quit. So I worked for him for slightly more than two years :eyes: until I moved away from the area to go to college.

Rest in Peace Mr. W.

[Berserker]

46. I was somewhere in

the Atlantic in the fucking canoe club repairing war machines.

[bo44]

45. Little League All Star 3 months after major knee surgery.

Quite proud that I did not let the removal of a chunk of cartilage from my knee in late February deter me from making the all star team as a catcher. First time I was successful at anything. Otherwise a major fuck up.

[hobbit709]

47. 1972

I was getting stoned in Turkey after the Air Farce sent me there from Italy as punishment

[SarahB]

48. I was an infant.

Born February 1972.

[AbbeyRoad]

50. Floating in the ether

I was -3.

[Endangered Specie]

51. I wasnt even a sperm them.

[bleedingheart]

52. I was three...

not much I remember other than having a baby brother...

[UpsideDownFlag]

53. i was a twinkle in my father's eye. nt

[Kat45]

54. I was in high school, going to clubs and getting drunk on weekends.

And hoping McGovern was going to win.

[steely]

55. Finishing 10th grade public school, playing ball, riding bikes,

delivering newspapers, naive as hell.

[Christof]

56. I wasn't even born until ten years later.

:)

[pfitz59]

58. 7th/8th grade.. Cypress, CA....

Stuck in "The OC"! Wasn't too bad. Spent a lot of time sailing, surfing and fishing....

[LiberalManiacfromOC]

59. I have no idea

at that point, I was probably a piece of food. maybe a plant. I wasn't even sprem yet. Unless sperm sicks around for 15+ years.

[grace0418]

60. I was two

So most likely I was in diapers.

[Ron Green]

61. On the road playing ROCK & ROLL, three years out of the Army. n/t

[Wapsie B]

62. 9th Grade,

just entering high school.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

63. Graduating from college in May, and then going off

to Cornell University to study Japanese ten days later.

I have photos to prove it, not to mention a dated diploma and my student i.d. from Cornell. :-)

[AwakeAtLast]

64. I was 2, still in diapers. eom

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

65. Going to art school, working at a hospital, voting for McGovern

In the interest of full disclosure, my mom helped me get the job. She was a nurse at the same hospital.

There was probably more going on, but um...I don't remember it all.

:bounce: :party: :smoke: :beer: :bounce:

[expatriot]

66. I was scattered all over the place...

The molecules that ended up being me were scattered across the plains and seas of this great world, as they were four years from accumulating and intersecting together in the bodies of my two respective parents to be converted into biological mass that would join in sexual union to create the all-to-present ME.

[JSJ]

67. doin' junior's toot nt

[maveric]

68. High School in Salem NH

Hoping that George McGovern would dethrone Tricky Dick and end the damn war.

[Moderator]

69. In a parking garage, blowing the whistle on the Nixon Administration

They called me Deep Throat.

[yardwork]

70. LOL! Love it!

I was twelve, talking to college students who were going to Vietnam and might not come back.

[LiberalVoice]

74. An itch in my daddys pants!

;)

[Emboldened Chimp]

71. In my mother's womb till September...

[Gore1FL]

72. Fall of '72

I was learning to read in the 1st grade. I remember showing up, and could name names!

[OldEurope]

73. I was in Munich, and there were the Olympic games.

I was 14.
Our summer holidays were extended for two weeks, because our classrooms were used as youth hostel (the school is right beside the Olympic sites).
We were so happy, we had fun and new friends from all over the world.
And then there came those terrorists.
In this year, I grew up, I think.

[Gothic Sponge]

75. 1972.........I was starting kindergarten, or was that 1973.....not sure.

[auburngrad82]

76. Baumholder High School, Baumholder Germany.

I was an Army brat.

[trigz]

77. I wasn't even produced at that stage...

come 1976 and I popped out. Indicentally, the same year Elvis Presley died. Coindidence? I doubt it. There's not enough space for the both of us :)

[dancing kali]

78. Practicing witchcraft

and becoming a feminist... doing street theatre... recovering from being dumped by my drummer boyfriend... mourning the death of my mother... taking my first unaccompanied trip to New York... wrecking my best friends car two hours after he bought it while he was attempting to teach me to drive... speeding my little brains out in an attempt to turn myself into a Balanchine body type (bulimic dancer)... dealing with being raped... attempting suicide... refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in school... establishing the jaded, humourless, cynic I am today... months away from meeting the love of my life (whom I'm still with - we met on 31 Dec. 1972).

For the most part, 1972 really sucked as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately, life improved from that point on.

[Maestro]

79. I was 4

Probably watching Sesame Street.

[ze_dscherman]

80. Elemantary school

A slightly nerdy kid, reading books under the table, because school lessons were boooring. Still had all the answers to my teachers questions, so I got away with it.

A pretty odd childhood as well, because my parents were Jehovah's Witnesses, and Armageddon was only three years away ...

[GOPisEvil]

81. I was 4 years old!

And I didn't take that kid's Tonka truck, no matter what he says!

Oh, we moved that year, from Fulda, Germany to Blytheville, Arkansas. Yeeha!

[NoPasaran]

82. I was in high school

Wishing I was old enough to vote for George McGovern in November.

[gollygee]

83. I was a toddler. LOL

[sus]

84. Kansas.

I was born in June.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

85. 6 years before i was born

[peacefreak]

86. I was living in my purple hippie apartment

seeing the Grateful Dead & working at Ma Bell.

[ronnykmarshall]

87. In the 6th grade.

Not a year I look back on fondly.

[greeneyedpookie]

88. I was a soul without

a body at that time. I didn't become a soul with a body until 1975.


GEP

:bounce:

[Quahog]

89. 7th grade

Emerald Junior High School, in El Cajon CA.

[regularguy]

90. In marlboro, New Jersey, living for little league.

[bif]

91. On a bender with George Bush