What were some other important historical events of your lifetime? What do you recall about them? Where were you when they occurred?
The introduction of the space shuttle program has also been very significant since it was a very important part of the continuing space program. Ships could now go into space and then return, land and go up again. However I was at work at Signetics when the space shuttle Discovery exploded shortly after takeoff and was a setback in the program as they searched for evidence of what went wrong. I was in the Fab 9 area when the front office people came in and told us what had happened, we then went to the offices and watched the news reports of the event.
It was the second major problem for the space program. The Apollo 13 failed mission of 1970 was the first major one to hit the news where the crew had to abort their mission to walk on the moon and only orbited the moon then returned. It was a very major testimony to me that our Heavenly Father is involved in everything that occurs in this life of ours.
Another major event in the last few years was the flying of planes into the Pentagon, and the twin towers in New York. It was on 9/11/2001. I was at work in a cabinet shop and we stopped everything as we listened to the radio reports as the events continued to unfold. I remember the sickening feelings that I had as I thought about the lives being lost not only in the planes but the buildings as well. There was also a fourth place that went down in a Pennsylvania field due to some very selfless men on board who tried to stop the pilots that were trying to fly that plane into the nations capitol building.
Well there been many notable events including Vietnam and Iraq wars, earthquakes and other natural disasters, etc. that have happened during my life and they have been in direct fulfillment of prophesies concerning the latter days.
