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November 22, 2012 at 3:09 pm #605663
“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.”
― John F. Kennedy
November 22, 2012 at 4:17 pm #778095Nov. 22, 1963 I was in Mr. Voris’s Mechanical Drawing class, 3rd Hall Denny Junior High, when all the class room phones rang informing the teachers who then informed the classroom that the President of the United States has just been shot.
November 22, 2012 at 4:19 pm #778096November 22, 2012 at 4:44 pm #778097Jan: I’ve never, ever seen this quote before. Thank you so much for sharing it. I’m a little misty now. Going to print that out and have it up on the wall.
November 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm #778098November 22, 2012 at 4:54 pm #778099To a President who will live in hearts and minds of meany who remember this day in dallas as I do RIP…..
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/visitorinformation/monumentmemorials/jfk.aspx
November 22, 2012 at 5:11 pm #778100Amen.
This quote is a profound reminder of what is so lacking in politics today: intelligence.
November 22, 2012 at 6:48 pm #778101Thanks for the visual.Mike. Just a mere 49 YEARS ago! Maybe what could have been. Gone too soon at the time…but not.
November 22, 2012 at 6:58 pm #778102I was but a twinkle in Mom’s eye when he was killed. I have always had a fascination with him and his life and have done a lot of reading and watching of documentaries of his life.
November 23, 2012 at 5:12 am #778103I was watching it on TV and holding my son, my youngest of 4, and he turned 50 last June. He now has silver hair. Where’d the time go?
November 23, 2012 at 5:38 am #778104Betty T
better question
what did we do with all of that time?
sometimes i think nothing
then i look around me and realize how very far we have come
we have come so far that my granddaughters take for granted
that which i fought for
November 23, 2012 at 9:37 pm #778105We have 2 ladies where I live who did advocacy work for women’s rights..Demonstrated did sit ins. One even got arrested. Strong women, now elderly. Alot of work weent into where we are now.
November 24, 2012 at 5:11 am #778106“I was out in the yard, taking down the bed sheets, when the neighbor yelled across, ‘The President’s been shot!’. I remember where I was, just exactly where I was, in the yard out back.” – Sondheim, Assassins
November 24, 2012 at 8:30 am #778107At Denny also not sure what class maybe math or history but it was definitely on the upper lever
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