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What were you doing Nov, 22 1963?
penguin
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Attending class at Penn State DuBois.
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Brad Steele
In Catholic grammar school. When the world we knew changed.
Me, too, in 6th grade. School dismissed early so we could mourn with our families. I had never seen priests and nuns crying and hugging. It was a sad day.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
The Middle School Principle came over the school system speaker system to tell us all that there had been an incident/accident in Dallas w the President.
We were sent home with in the hour and found out what had happened later that evening when Walter C. told us all on the evening CBS News broadcast.
School VERY VERY quite , all day on the next Monday....
Standing behind some shrubs on a grassy knoll.
That's not very nice, Don.
Playing then watching mom cry.
Yup. She was crying her eyes out. It made me scared so I cried too.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I also subscribed to the Sunday edition of the Beaumont Enterprise newspaper, and I still have it rolled and wrapped in its original brown shipping cover. Was thinking of opening it up for the first time this Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Moulder came back into the classroom looking distressed and told us the President had been shot. We forgot all about the spelling test.
The grownups didn't like Kennedy, but we were still very respectful. Democrat or Republican didn't matter much to little kids, he was still the President of our country and in class, we said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning.
In my best Forrest Gump manner, I asked why somebody would shoot the President? No one knew.
It has been said America lost it's innocence that day and everyone who was alive that day can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. I have found that to be a true statement.
Later that week we got to see Walter Cronkite cry and the shooting in a Dallas garage of Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin, by bar owner Jack Ruby.
It all happened on a day in November, 1963. I think every generation has an event that defines them. The last century had the Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Kennedy, the Berlin Wall coming down, and then 9/11. I think all of those events are burned into the psyche of the people that lived them.
I love this life. It's the most exciting I've ever had.
but at least it was taught to me in school
To Lower the Flag To 1/2 Mast We Were Flag tenders
For the Big Flag Outside in the Main Yard.
Never Forget The Sadness In the Area
Damn Shame lose A Good Man to Some Clowns That wanted to Keep the War In
Vietnam Going To make More Money in Munitions[:0]
Stood on the curb on Broadway Blvd in Houston and watched Kennedy's motorcade leaving Hobby Airport.
We lived just one block off Broadway and walked across the field to watch.
I still have the 8mm film my Dad shot as the motorcade went by in open top vehicles,the last time a President rode in an open top.
I was 6 at the time.
crapping my diapers. I was two months old. Born September 7th, 1963. Oakie
I am in about this same boat born 6/5/62