Name a time (historical event) in which you were most proud of our nation

[gopiscrap]

during your lifetime

[gopiscrap]

1. Barack Obama's election

[csziggy]

5. I was thinking of his inauguration - but then rememberd how Roberts screwed that up

So I will go with his election, also

Historical note - Barack Obama was sworn in as President four times. The first was when Roberts messed up the words. Because of that, Roberts swore him in again in a private ceremony. In 2013, January 20 was on a Sunday so the public ceremony was held on January 21 but Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2013, to agree with the Constitutional requirement, then sworn in a second time that term on the 21st.

[yuiyoshida]

15. I agree with this

however losing all those seats later on was not good.

[Vinca]

2. Moon landing. I loved the whole space program back then. It was so exciting.

[csziggy]

6. That was momentous - but the country had been working so hard for it

The actual event was almost an anticlimax.

[Vinca]

8. It's odd to look at the old grainy footage. Imagine what a picture we'd have today.

[csziggy]

11. Yes, it would be a lot better picture but not as amazing!

And just for laughs, here is a version of the moon landing:

I was thinking just the other day that up until this generation, all the people who have lived since photography - or possibly imagery including art - have been able to roughly judge the time frame for photos and video by the texture, color and quality of the images.

As I was growing up, I knew by the images about how old they were and that in itself put a photo or film in an historical time frame. For the last thirty or so years, though photo and video quality are pretty much at the peak of what people can discern. Television footage from the end of Ronald Reagan's term is hard to tell from footage from today. Photos from film taken in the 80s is hard to tell from current digital photos - if the scanning quality is as good.

There is no longer that built in clue as to the age of media imagery that we had most of of our lives. Add to that the ease of photoshopping images and video - and soon software to do the same to voices will be readily available. We can no longer believe our eyes or our ears!

[physioex]

3. Supreme Court Same Sex Marriage Ruling. EOM

[gopiscrap]

7. that ranks up there also

[skylucy]

4. That is an easy one. When we elected President Obama.

[crazycatlady]

9. Obama's election

Naive me thought that racism was behind us.

[Doreen]

10. Election of president Obama and legal marriage of gay people.

This is not a big history but when Obama got in the next day he gave the people in Lewis County Washington the money they needed to recover from the flood we had. Bush would only give to the BIG businesses.

[BeyondGeography]

12. Nixon's resignation and everything that led up to it

Giants on both sides of the aisle. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide but it didn't taint the process. It was pretty amazing to watch as a teenager who was looking for something to believe in.

[Nevernose]

13. Never

I don't understand the concept of patriotism and never did.

But am I THANKFUL to live here? Hell, yes. Despite all of our many problems, we've got it better than most people.

[fescuerescue]

14. Moon Landing by far

In 1,000 years. It, along with WW II will be the only things in common memory from the 20th century.