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...exactly 53 years ago today at the Presidents Parade in Dallas. School was out so we all could go see the President.
He went by with the Governor and we all screamed and waved. It was a big deal for all of us to see the President. He had a big smile I could see and he waved at all of us.
Dad threw all us kids in the back of the truck and we went home.
We got home and Mom was in the living room crying and told us somebody shot him.
 
The Only Sarge said:
...exactly 53 years ago today at the Presidents Parade in Dallas. School was out so we all could go see the President.
He went by with the Governor and we all screamed and waved. It was a big deal for all of us to see the President. He had a big smile I could see and he waved at all of us.
Dad threw all us kids in the back of the truck and we went home.
We got home and Mom was in the living room crying and told us somebody shot him.
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Sarge, you're only a kid....I was serving in Gitmo with VU8 on Leeward Point....
had a squadron party that day.....heard on my short wave that my CIC had be assassinated....no crying but we were put on alert, got planes ready to fly
and our marine brothers headed for the fence line, just in case....
 
I was enrolled in a one room school house and we were decorating for Thanksgiving day.
The teacher came into the room, asked everyone to quiet down, told us the President had been shot, and she was sending everyone home.
She was crying.
I remember all of us that lived in our direction, were very quiet going home.
When we walked in the back door, we could hear the TV on in the living room.
Our mom was sitting there, watching the news, and she was crying also.
Our dad came home early.
The rest of the evening and the entire weekend was spent watching the news reports.
 
“The stories of past courage can define that ingredient– they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.” President John F. Kennedy

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The Only Sarge said:
...exactly 53 years ago today at the Presidents Parade in Dallas. School was out so we all could go see the President.
He went by with the Governor and we all screamed and waved. It was a big deal for all of us to see the President. He had a big smile I could see and he waved at all of us.
Dad threw all us kids in the back of the truck and we went home.
We got home and Mom was in the living room crying and told us somebody shot him.
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I told a similar story on the anniversary of the moon landing. My brother, cousin and I watched the media scrum in front of Neil Armstrongs parents house.
 
The Only Sarge said:
...exactly 53 years ago today at the Presidents Parade in Dallas. School was out so we all could go see the President.
He went by with the Governor and we all screamed and waved. It was a big deal for all of us to see the President. He had a big smile I could see and he waved at all of us.
Dad threw all us kids in the back of the truck and we went home.
We got home and Mom was in the living room crying and told us somebody shot him.
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you were in Dallas?? wow.
I was in 3rd grade -catholic parish school and funeral bells started ringing - funerals are in the morning not mid afternoon.

They just kept ringing and ringing.....the announcement finally came over the PA system and we were let out.
 
It will be nice when history can simply judge JFK on his accomplishments and character, without the interference of the star power that he exuded upon everyone.
 
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Funny how we all know exactly where we were that day......same with 9/11.....
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not just when I heard it, but afterwards running home and seeing the people crying on the street.
I was watching Oswald get transferred from the police station when he got shot etc..

The funeral ..i'll never forget the riderless horse with the backward boots..etc.
 
anatta said:
not just when I heard it, but afterwards running home and seeing the people crying on the street.
I was watching Oswald get transferred from the police station when he got shot etc..

The funeral ..i'll never forget the riderless horse with the backward boots..etc.
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and who can forget his little son saluting the hearse as it passed....
 
Threedee said:
It will be nice when history can simply judge JFK on his accomplishments and character, without the interference of the star power that he exuded upon everyone.
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JFK almost got us into WWIII. Nothing great about that. He also gave us the fiasco called the Bay of Pigs.

While his policies were correctly conservative and he had served in WWII; his political policies were nearly disastrous and hoisting him up to folk lore status is about as moronic as claiming BillyBob Clinton was a great President.
 
I was in 4th grade. Our teacher (Mrs. Castor) was called out of the room.
She re-entered with tears on her face...explained that our President had been shot.
She told us all we needed to go home and hugged each one of us on the way out.
That was the longest walk home I ever had.

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anatta said:
not just when I heard it, but afterwards running home and seeing the people crying on the street.
I was watching Oswald get transferred from the police station when he got shot etc..

The funeral ..i'll never forget the riderless horse with the backward boots..etc.
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The one thing I'll always remember, is John Boy saluting his fathers casket.

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How sad.
 
Truth Detector said:
JFK almost got us into WWIII. Nothing great about that. He also gave us the fiasco called the Bay of Pigs.

While his policies were correctly conservative and he had served in WWII; his political policies were nearly disastrous and hoisting him up to folk lore status is about as moronic as claiming BillyBob Clinton was a great President.
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That's what I meant by his policies and character. The former were disastrous; the latter, nonexistent.
 
Define "all of you". Lets narrow this down. I now you hate entire demographics while accusing others of the same thing but can you please be a little more specific in your hate?
 
Truth Detector said:
JFK almost got us into WWIII. Nothing great about that. He also gave us the fiasco called the Bay of Pigs.

While his policies were correctly conservative and he had served in WWII; his political policies were nearly disastrous and hoisting him up to folk lore status is about as moronic as claiming BillyBob Clinton was a great President.
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So,,,,I take it that you would have been in agreement with Russia setting up tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba, 90 miles from the US....
when I was stationed at Leeward Point, I could see from the barracks roof, the migs parked on the tarmac on fields a mile of two from our base....
not a pretty sight at the time...Castro with Russian Migs was not something I was happy about.

....the Bay of Pigs was a fiasco, I agree....not JFK at his best by any stretch....
 
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