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45 Years Ago!?
I was a little RedStatesMan back then, only two years old but growing up in the RedStatesHouse I do remember Dad saying, on that day, 'oh, well, sh*t happens"!
Just kidding! Sorry sometimes I can not hold back my true feelings for a Kennedy or a democrat. It's just a joke everyone! Lighten up!
Actually it was a very bad day for our nation, very sad, a terrible thing....
posted by
RedStatesMan
on November 22, 2008 at 6:55 PM
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My sons were just babies and we were making a trip to visit relatives. We had about 50 miles still to drive when we first heard the news on the car radio and couldn't believe what we had heard. We couldn't wait to get to our destination to check it out on their TV. We arrived to a very somber family who had the TV on and it wasn't much of a joyous family gathering.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM
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Next came the Beatles, drugs and VietNAm. I wonder if a part of America died after that?
posted by
mordent
on November 22, 2008 at 9:13 AM
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Watching the President's Funeral was almost overwhelming......
this was supposed to have happened.....not here, in America. I can still hear the cadence of the drums......
bump, bump, bump, dlllllllllllllllll,
bump, bump, bump, dlllllllllllllllll,
bump, bump, bump, dlllllllllllllllll,
bump, bump, da dump.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 22, 2008 at 7:38 AM
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It's one of thse things that you retain......
so vividly in your mind.....so easily remembered ...like clicking on a YouTube video.....
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on November 22, 2008 at 7:31 AM
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Corbin
I remember it well. I walked home from school for lunch and my mother was riveted to the TV. Only 7 at the time, I didn’t fully understand (at least not at first) what had happened but I sat down beside my mother and watched the tragedy unfold. School was shut down for the rest of the day….
posted by
Troosha
on November 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM
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Reading you I relived the moment , which strangely enough I have never forgotten. Like you I was in school, but I was 9 and we were practicing with the music teacher for our Christmas party ( yes Christmas party, in Montana...Christmas was a big thing in the public schools as I remember it) and the director came in and told the teacher something that made her cry.. She told us to get our coats on because our parents would be picking us up. I remember thinking there had been a nuclear attack, in those days , remember, we were all afraid of that. When my mom picked me up she told me the president was dead. I felt sad for the gorgeous tall blonde man that I barely knew and for his pretty wife. Father came and gave us a speech about this beautiful country we lived on and how everything would be OK. Everything was, though in hindsight I agree that nothing was ever the same.
posted by
Sinome
on November 22, 2008 at 7:13 AM
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