Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[CMRivdogs]

3 hours ago, romad1 said:

Sadly, the initial foray into Georgia during the W Bush admin happened while we were totally up our own feelings about 9/11 and all the subsequent stuff.  I recall at the time being like..."we have no time for dealing with that" and that was wrong.  The US needed to make a stink about that and not allow him to seize a metaphorical sudetenland. 

As I look back that whole period basically shaped a lot. of my thinking. My wife was part of the management team of an all news radio station in Chicago, I was working a split shift (6-10, 3-7) as a reporter for a traffic reporting service. Our 9 year old was basically a latch key kid. We had just moved there a few months before...

The church we had started to attend had midweek "study groups", nothing similar on weekends. As the Soviet Union began to crumble I received a call from one of the group leaders inviting us to attend. I explained our situation.  His response, "I bet they are eating it all up", meaning what was happening in the news. 

We never returned to that congregation..

Edited 1 hour ago by CMRivdogs

[chasfh]

37 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

As I look back that whole period basically shaped a lot. of my thinking. My wife was part of the management team of an all news radio station in Chicago, I was working a split shift (6-10, 3-7) as a reporter for a traffic reporting service. Our 9 year old was basically a latch key kid. We had just moved there a few months before...

The church we had started to attend had midweek "study groups", nothing similar on weekends. As the Soviet Union began to crumble I received a call from one of the group leaders inviting us to attend. I explained our situation.  His response, "I bet they are eating it all up", meaning what was happening in the news. 

We never returned to that congregation..

I'm interested in more details on this. When was this? What was everyone "eating ... all up"? What was happening? We're basically talking about two time periods: 1989, and post 9-11.

[CMRivdogs]

4 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I'm interested in more details on this. When was this? What was everyone "eating ... all up"? What was happening? We're basically talking about two time periods: 1989, and post 9-11.

Around 1990, basically post Persian Gulf I, but with several repercussions. The Bush I recession was beginning to pick up steam. We lived in Hampton Roads before moving to the Chicago area, It was nearly impossible to sell our old condo, plus pay Chicago area size rent. 

The event that triggered that particular comment was the fall of the Soviet Union. The All News stations were pretty much in constant coverage mode at the time