Editorial: Gigs and garlands - Opinion - The Ledger - Lakeland, FL

Editorial: Gigs and garlands - Opinion - The Ledger - Lakeland, FL: Forty years ago today America endured one of the most humiliating moments in its history.Student protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Iran and eventually took 52 Americans hostage. The embassy personnel were held for 444 days, until Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 1981. The attack poisoned America’s relationship with a former ally ever since, and arguably was the beginning of the U.S. becoming mired in the violent sectarian politics of the Middle East, from which we