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11-22-2014, 8:54pm | #1 | ||||||
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My, How We Forget........
Kennedy assassinated 51 years ago today. I know you younger folks won't identify, but I was in the 10th grade, principal announced over the PA, sent us all home. Sad day.
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I was 3 at the time. Changed our country.
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11-22-2014, 10:54pm | #3 | ||||||
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I was minus 5, but my family was very conservative, no tears were shed, so I'm told.
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I was about 7 weeks old, so i dont remember anything.
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My parents were both from conservative families, and are conservative themselves..my mom was 12, my dad was 13...both vividly remember it as one of those events in your life that you never forget where you were..like 9/11, the Challenger explosion, Discovery breaking up..., Kennedy Assassination, MLK Assassination, Nixons speech, CLintons "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" speech...
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I was 4. I wasn't old enough to know what was up. But I remember the mood. I can remember thinking Santa Claus wasn't gonna come. And that's why people were sad. I'm serious.
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I was 2 so no memory of it but it has been a fascination of mine for years.
I do remember when Bobby was killed though. |
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I was 7 and remember it well. I knew something had happened when my mother met me walking home from the bus stop, I could see it in her face. It was a long slow walk home that day.
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I was alive....just starting to crawl....
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But I was in the 1st grade, principal announced over the PA, sent us all home. Sad day. I cried and didn't even know the man.. At 6 years old I just knew it was something terrible for our President to be killed. I also remember seeing this photo in the news, and felt so sorry for John John having to loose his father, and grow up without him. |
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i was still in Highschool. It was a terrible time.
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I was in my college parking lot replacing my starter when I heard it on the car radio (6 volt)...
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I remember well were I was and what I was doing. A sad day for America.
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You have to wonder, what would 1960's American politics been, had he not been killed?
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At any rate, all those 60's feel good crap great society shit is now proving to be a total waste of time and money, rapidly leading to BK for the nation....as if it wasn't known at the time..... |
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Where were you that day Mr?
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I was walking out of that useless sociology class at univ/Md. about 2 pm and a bunch of kids standing in the hallway, block passage, I noted a radio and figgered it was music, but I had another class to get to and they in my way....needless to say that class was cancelled....went back to the dorm/trailers and watched it all on TV
I grew older right across the golf course from Navy Medical Center in Bethesda Md, easy to see from the street corner back in them daze, today it's all NIH/NLM buildings, it was all open access back then, today, not so much, unless you know things like I do..... |
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I was 8 and home from school when the news broke. I was a sad time in our history.
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I was 17 days old.
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I was two and my dad was stationed in Guam, so I was probably playing with a coconut crab or some old Jap munitions something.
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