Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed.[1]
In between we had another year and a half of Carter and then seven and a half of Reagan. Reagan. The constant Trump! Trump! Trump! media drumbeats suggest that we’ve had another end of history, but I remember Reagan, and Bush.