i joined teach for america. that's the reason i'm here. 1979 was a really long time ago. this was an suv. this was how basketball players wore their shorts. this was a nice stereo. this was the collection of the greatest white guy hair on earth and if your computer machine in 1979 needed to be seen by your eyes, you had to hook it up to your tv to use as a monitor. 1979 was a very, very different time. i am old and i can barely remember 1979. i'm not even really sure that i can, but 1979 is the last time that there was direct contact between the leader of our country and the leader of iran. 1979 was the year of the revolution in iran which brought to power a new religious radical cod ray and when they took americans hostage for more than 14 months, relations between our