Greatest Moment in American History?

[Warthog912]

What do you guys think? We were talking about it in my History class this morn, and I was just wondering what some of you history buffs' thought-

BTW-

Our teacher didn't pick a moment, she said the greatest time frame was the end of the civil war.

Later

 

[Ausm]

I don't understand...you mean from 1776 to the end of the civil war or to present date?


Ausm

 

[spaceman]

when they put that dude on that orbiting rock 30 some odd years ago.

 

[edro]

The day Bill Clinton announced on worldwide televisions that he did not have sexual relations with that woman....

 

[brunswickite]

october 19th 1982

 

[Sundog]

How about the start of our country: The start of the revolutionary war!

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
october 19th 1982

You can't use your own birthday!!!!!

 

[PunDogg]

When American was FREE, indepentance day, july 4th, cuz other wise u would not be asking this question

Dogg

 

[Warthog912]

Originally posted by: ausm
I don't understand...you mean from 1776 to the end of the civil war or to present date?


Ausm

from 1776 to present date.

Personally, I believe the men on the moon was our greatest shining moment- but what do I know?

 

[yobarman]

i would have loved to live in the Roaring Twenties running around being a mobster. Not exactly a great moment in history, but still kinda cool.


But i think dropping the nuclear bombs in Japan sent the world the message "don't f**k with us," where we became the world's first Superpower

 

[Graphicd00d]

Originally posted by: Sundog
How about the start of our country: The start of the revolutionary war!

That is the greatest moment in American history. The time our founding fathers fought for their freedom and the freedom for everyone else.

 

[athithi]

But i think dropping the nuclear bombs in Japan sent the world the message "don't f**k with us," where we became the world's first Superpower

I think you are right, but I wish you'd expressed it with a little more tact.

EDIT: IMO it had more to do with ending WWII rather than muscle-flexing...but I'm not American, so pardon my objectivity.

 

[BigSmooth]

The creation and ratification of the Constitution and later the Bill of Rights.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I'll have to agree with Independence Day: July 4, 1776.

Either that or the Emancipation Proclomation

 

[Ausm]

Technological= I would have to say the man on the moon and Living up to President Kennedy's promise to reach the moon before 1970.

I remember watching it to this day and I will never forget it.

Political=The End of the "cold war" and the destruction of the Berlin Wall...


Ausm