This was sent to me and I decided to share it on an 80's site.

This is for those of you who remember and still dream and climb
trees and wsh that Hans Solo were real and that Chewey were really
that fuzzy and that Gummy Bear juice really made you bounce and that the
world were still as perfect as it was when we were kids! :)
>>
We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first "lost
generation" nor today's lost generation; in fact, we think we know
just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak. We are the ones
who played with Lego Building Blocks when they were just building blocks
and gave Malibu Barbie crewcuts with safety scissors that never really
cut. We collected Garbage Pail Kids and Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little
Ponies and Hot Wheels and He-Man action figures and thought She-Ra looked
just a little bit like I would when I was a woman. Big Wheels and bicycles
with streamers were the way to go, and sidewalk chalk was all you needed
to build a city. Imagination was the key. It made the Ewok Treehouse big enough
for you to be Luke and the kitchen table and an old sheet dark enough to be a tent
in the forest. Your world was the backyard and it was all you
needed. With your pink portable tape player, Debbie Gibson sang back up to
you and everyone wanted a skirt like the Material Girl and a glove like
Michael Jackson's. Today, we are the ones who sing along with Bruce
Stringsteen and The Bangles perfectly and have no idea why. We recite lines with
the Ghostbusters and still look to The Goonies for a great adventure. We
flip through T.V. stations and stop at The A Team and Knight Rider
and Fame and laugh with The Cosby Show and Family Ties and Punky Brewster and
what you talkin' 'bout Willis? We hold strong affections for The Muppets
and The Gummy Bears and why did they take the Smurfs off the air? After
school specials were only about cigarettes and step-families, the Pokka Dot
Door was nothing like Barney, and aren't the Power Rangers just
Voltron reincarnated? We are the ones who still read Nancy Drew and the
Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, Beverly Clearly and Judy Blume, Richard
Scary and the Electric Company. Friendship bracelets were ties you couldn't break
and friendship pins went on shoes - preferably hightop Velcro Reebox - and
pegged jeans were in, as were Units belts and layered socks and jean jackets and jams
and charm necklaces and side pony tails and just tails.
Rave was a girl's best friend; braces with colored rubberbands made you cool.

The backdoor was always open and Mom served only red Kool-Aid to the
neighborhood kids- never drank New Coke. Entertainment was cheap and
lasted for hours. All you needed to be a princess was high heels and
an apron; the Sit'n'Spin always made you dizzy but never made you stop;
Pogoballs were dangerous weapons and Chinese Jump Ropes never failed to trip
someone.
In your Underoos you were Wonder Woman or Spider Man or R2D2 and in your
treehouse you were king. In the Eighties, nothing was wrong. Did you know the
president was shot?
Star Wars was not only a movie. Did you ever play in a bomb shelter?
Did you see the Challenger explode or feed the homeless man? We
forgot Vietnam and watched Tiananman's Square on CNN and bought pieces of
the Berlin Wall at the store. AIDS was not the number one killer in the United
States. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel. In the Eighties, we redefined the
American Dream, and those years defined us. We are the generation inbetween strife and
facing strife and not turning our backs. The Eighties may have made us idealistic, but it's
that idealism that will push us and be passed on to our children - the first children of the
twenty-first century.
Never forget: We are the children of the Eighties.

This is soooo true...There are only a couple more things I can add. Those Friday nights at 10:00 to watch Miami Vice, staying up to watch 'Night Flight' or to watch 'Night Tracks' on TBS...
Watching Dance Party USA on the USA network and begging your parents to buy you that 'really cool outfit with the big pants like that girl dancing has on.' Then, there are the New Kids on the Block, whom I saw in concert in 5th grade.
I remember the Challenger explosion, watching it on TV in school and freaking out. I remember when Ricky Nelson died in like '84 on New Years, etc...Watching chessy videos and wishing I could dance like Jennifer Beals, or singing along into a hairbrush to a Tiffany/Debbie Gibson song!!
There are so many memories I have of the 80's that will come to me as I go, but you listed almost every one of them. Can you remember the Electric Youth Perfume?????
**~~**Lindsay

ps..Ah, to be there again, only older...

...not listening to the '80s music during the '80s!!! In fact, most of the '80s acts I now adore I hadn't the slightest idea about during the decade!!

What I remember is the toys and games I had fun with during the decade, and the TV shows, and (believe it or not) the news! One of my first experiences with a network news broadcast was watching Oliver North get sworn in on ABC News. And I do recall very clearly most of the '80s news-wise.

It sucks that I was just a little girl in the '80s. Even though I had fun with the games and toys of the era, and even though I cannot imagine a childhood without having seen those infamous Garbage Pail Kids cards, I do sincerely wish I was there as a teen so I could've experienced the decade. I identify more with the teens on "The Breakfast Club" than I do with the teens on "Party of Five". And while I may have been a huge Nirvana fan back in the early '90s, I would've wanted more to have been affected by New Wave and New Romantic music in my more formative years.

God how I hope the next decade doesn't suck like this decade has.

Diane

: This was sent to me and I decided to share it on an 80's site.

: This is for those of you who remember and still dream and climb
: trees and wsh that Hans Solo were real and that Chewey were really
: that fuzzy and that Gummy Bear juice really made you bounce and that the
: world were still as perfect as it was when we were kids! :)
: >>
: We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first "lost
: generation" nor today's lost generation; in fact, we think we know
: just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak. We are the ones
: who played with Lego Building Blocks when they were just building blocks
: and gave Malibu Barbie crewcuts with safety scissors that never really
: cut. We collected Garbage Pail Kids and Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little
: Ponies and Hot Wheels and He-Man action figures and thought She-Ra looked
: just a little bit like I would when I was a woman. Big Wheels and bicycles
: with streamers were the way to go, and sidewalk chalk was all you needed
: to build a city. Imagination was the key. It made the Ewok Treehouse big enough
: for you to be Luke and the kitchen table and an old sheet dark enough to be a tent
: in the forest. Your world was the backyard and it was all you
: needed. With your pink portable tape player, Debbie Gibson sang back up to
: you and everyone wanted a skirt like the Material Girl and a glove like
: Michael Jackson's. Today, we are the ones who sing along with Bruce
: Stringsteen and The Bangles perfectly and have no idea why. We recite lines with
: the Ghostbusters and still look to The Goonies for a great adventure. We
: flip through T.V. stations and stop at The A Team and Knight Rider
: and Fame and laugh with The Cosby Show and Family Ties and Punky Brewster and
: what you talkin' 'bout Willis? We hold strong affections for The Muppets
: and The Gummy Bears and why did they take the Smurfs off the air? After
: school specials were only about cigarettes and step-families, the Pokka Dot
: Door was nothing like Barney, and aren't the Power Rangers just
: Voltron reincarnated? We are the ones who still read Nancy Drew and the
: Hardy Boys, the Bobbsey Twins, Beverly Clearly and Judy Blume, Richard
: Scary and the Electric Company. Friendship bracelets were ties you couldn't break
: and friendship pins went on shoes - preferably hightop Velcro Reebox - and
: pegged jeans were in, as were Units belts and layered socks and jean jackets and jams
: and charm necklaces and side pony tails and just tails.
: Rave was a girl's best friend; braces with colored rubberbands made you cool.

: The backdoor was always open and Mom served only red Kool-Aid to the
: neighborhood kids- never drank New Coke. Entertainment was cheap and
: lasted for hours. All you needed to be a princess was high heels and
: an apron; the Sit'n'Spin always made you dizzy but never made you stop;
: Pogoballs were dangerous weapons and Chinese Jump Ropes never failed to trip
: someone.
: In your Underoos you were Wonder Woman or Spider Man or R2D2 and in your
: treehouse you were king. In the Eighties, nothing was wrong. Did you know the
: president was shot?
: Star Wars was not only a movie. Did you ever play in a bomb shelter?
: Did you see the Challenger explode or feed the homeless man? We
: forgot Vietnam and watched Tiananman's Square on CNN and bought pieces of
: the Berlin Wall at the store. AIDS was not the number one killer in the United
: States. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel. In the Eighties, we redefined the
: American Dream, and those years defined us. We are the generation inbetween strife and
: facing strife and not turning our backs. The Eighties may have made us idealistic, but it's
: that idealism that will push us and be passed on to our children - the first children of the
: twenty-first century.
: Never forget: We are the children of the Eighties.

Thank you so much for this,
While reading this I got chills down my spine and a tear in my eye.
Dan

Does make you a bit teary, doesn't it....I know it did me cause those days can never be reclaimed!