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January 20, 2011 at 11:40 pm #597686
JoBParticipanti listened to every word of this
and believed it.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkinaugural2.htm
I still do.
January 21, 2011 at 3:21 am #714573
DPMemberTruly stirring. Poetic even.
It shouldn’t surprise us that no less a wordsmith than Robert Frost also spoke on that occasion.
Ah . . . if only JFK had done a better job of living up to the rhetoric. (Let’s not forget the Bay of Pigs and Vietnam!)
Perhaps he would have lived up to it, if only . . .
Anyway, thanks JoB — for reminding us that great beauty and great power may coexist.
January 21, 2011 at 4:09 am #714574
miwsParticipantI wish I was old enough to JFK on my own.
According to those that know such things, I should be able to remember the assassination, considering I was five years, and nearly two months old, but I don’t.
Remembering JFK’s Inauguration Speech would have been quite the feat, what with my having been only two years plus nearly four months old at the time.
Mike
January 21, 2011 at 4:21 am #714575
JoBParticipantmiws…
i was walking between my classroom and the restroom at Roosevelt High School in Portland Oregon when the news of his assassination was broadcast over the loud speakers.
There was a deafening silence that seemed to last forever before the doors opened and everyone spilled into the halls crying.
everyone. teachers and all.
Reading his inauguration speech still fills me with wonder..
but to have heard it at the most ideological point in my life set a lifetime of political standards that unfortunately have never been reached.
DP…
he was a man in a bad situation. I’d like to think that if he had ever found his feet he would have done much more.
As it was, his presidency set so many things in motion that ultimately changed the way we viewed our world…
at least for a little while.
January 21, 2011 at 4:49 am #714576
DPMember—He got the Peace Corps rolling for one thing.
—Boosted the space program into high gear for another. (Without which, no WSB Mars Colony!)
—Dated Marilyn Monroe.
Oh. Guess that last one depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? Personally, I always thought it was an inspired move. Now, in retrospect, people are second-guessing.
January 21, 2011 at 5:29 am #714577
JanSParticipantI remember that day. I was in my German class in high school. My teacher was a concentration camp survivor (including # tattooed on her wrist)…and the Germans revered JFK. She broke down in front of the class..lasting memory…
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