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strawberry
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1449
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 4:45 pm: | 
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not born..
"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2466
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 4:50 pm: |
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I was just a small pre-schooler, but I remember seeing my mother crying about something on the television, and not knowing why. |
SoOrLady
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Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 167
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 5:12 pm: |
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8th grade math class - they broadcast the inital event, but waited until the end of the day to tell us JFK was dead. A very sad day. |
cody
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Username: Cody
Post Number: 438
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 8:23 pm: |
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9th grade Spanish class - I remember the announcement coming over the loudspeaker and everyone being so shocked. There was a sense of unreality, this couldn't possibly be happening. Sadly, that wasn't the case for long - it really did shatter the sense of security for many of us.
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spw784
Citizen
Username: Spw784
Post Number: 402
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 9:27 pm: |
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not born yet either... but I can tell you where I was when Reagan got shot (entering the public library after school), or the Space shuttle w/ Christa Macauliffe on board exploded (entering the school office as a 9th grader, arriving to tutor some local elem school kids) |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10460
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:12 pm: |
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I was on the grassy knoll.
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NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1093
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:46 pm: |
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Almost 60% of Americans alive today were not alive on 11/22/63. That 45 year old adult in the next cubicle wouldn't have the foggiest idea where s/he was on that day.
Me, 3rd grade listen to a radio show with my class. We tuned in late and heard talk about the presidential assasination. Theought they were talking about Lincoln but when it tuned out that they were refering to Kennedy, my teacher ran out of the room to the principal's office leaving the classroom unsupervised. Next thing you know, the Principal in on the PA telling everyone to just go home. We all left the building, everyone walking home to houses where mommy was waiting. I still can see in my minds eye small knots of people on the sidewalk, with the women crying and everyone talking low. I walked into the apt. to see my mom and brothers glued to the set. We all were for the next 4 days.
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1538
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 10:58 pm: |
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Kindergarten. I remember being disappointed that none of my shows were on tv all weekend.
I'm 45, and I understand why some of us wouldn't remember. |
anon
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Username: Anon
Post Number: 841
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 11:14 pm: |
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Spanish Class - College |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1161
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 7:44 am: |
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I was 34 months old, so I don't remember it. I do, however remember, somehow, remember saying "predident Kennedy" at that age. I don't know what brings that memory to me.
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 201
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 8:15 am: |
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On the school bus coming home from 2nd grade. One of the parents picking up her kid was crying and told us the President has been shot. |
ken (the other one)
Citizen
Username: Ken
Post Number: 146
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 8:32 am: |
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vaguely remember the funeral procesion on the old B&W.
There's nothing like being on the bottom of the Ocean!
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sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 738
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 9:15 am: |
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Wasn't born yet....
Was coming in from baseball practice in 10th grade when Reagan was shot and was watching the space shuttle launch while eating lunch as a junior in college |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1547
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 - 11:41 pm: |
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Here's a thoughtful message
quote:"John F. Kennedy has been gone nearly as long as he lived, yet the memory of him still brings pride to our nation and a feeling of loss that defies the passing of years.
"We remember a man who welcomed great responsibilities and had a gift for awakening the idealism and sense of duty in others, We remember a leader who called our nation to high purpose, and saw America through grave dangers with calm, discernment and personal courage."
Good words, and hats off to President Bush for delivering them today. |
kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 257
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:25 am: |
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I was 2 1/2 years old, my mother was very pregnant (with her third!) We lived in the midwest and we were very Catholic. All the chaos got mom to go into labor on the 25th - a little early. She watched the funeral procession on the hospital TV while she was had contractions.
My brother was born -they named him John. |
kathy
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Username: Kathy
Post Number: 667
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 7:57 pm: |
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9th grade, in Earth Science class, the last period of the day--they made the announcement over the loudspeaker. One of my friends who idolized the Kennedys cried all the way home on the bus. Another friend cynically remarked that he guessed Vaughn Meader would be out of a job.... |
Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 1095
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 9:31 pm: |
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I was running the quarter mile in gym, in tenth grade, worrying that I had no idea of what to finally get my folks as a present for their eighteenth anniversary that day.
As I turned the bend heading for the straightaway that led to the finish, I noticed a small crowd of kids forming around one of the Driver Ed cars in the parking lot up the hill from the track. They seemed upset. When I finished the run, I jogged up the hill and around the tennis courts to the lot, where the crowd of kids had grown to about thirty. Most of the girls were crying; some of the boys were cursing angrily; some girls I knew were hugging each other, sobbing quietly; some others were just wandering around with blank expressions; many were huddled around the car, clearly straining to listen to its radio. As I approached, a kid in my home room yelled to me, "The President's been shot!"
School was dismissed early, at the end of the next period, and I never bought my folks a present. My parents are both gone now, but I'll always remember their anniversary.
--Soda |
emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 163
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:18 pm: |
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I was in Dallas. I was going to college in Fort Worth, a stones throw away from Dallas. It was Friday and we had no classes so we went to Dallas to party for the weekend. We came off the interstate ramp to hit the main drag...where it all happened, and it was major gridlock. We were ticked with the traffic jam and had no clue. Then the news came on the radio. We must have sat there for three hours. Needless to say, there was no fun going on that night, particularly in Dallas! Okay, so I gave away my *approximate* age. |
Copihue
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Username: Cop
Post Number: 146
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:22 pm: |
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Our school principal came into our class to tell us that President Kennedy had been shot. She hardly ever interrupted class for any reason, and she never really spoke of anything which was not directly school related. It was odd for her to talk to us like this, as if we were adults. Though she showed no emotion, she expressed something through the very unusual behavior of interrupting class. It was nearly summer, and I was in elementary school in Chile. In my memory she is forever frozen by the doorway in that warm early summer day.
Pack your own chute.
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jet
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Username: Jet
Post Number: 311
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 9:56 am: |
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Hey , Library Lady, I'm 45 . At home , in Grandmother's living room. She was yelling in Italian at the TV , that they should kill whoever did this to JFK , at the same time expressing sympathy for his wife & children. I was at home after the morning session of kindergarden , back in the day that 32 kids went in the morning 32 in the afternoon, cyrstal clear. |
bobk
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 3918
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 10:40 am: |
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I was a college freshman lying on my bed after lunch listening to the radio and thinking deep college freshman thoughts when the announcement came over the air. I went to class, which the professor dismissed early because no one, including himself, was concentrating. I spent the rest of Thanksgiving week at school and then at home glued to the TV, with just about everyone else in the country. A horrible tragedy both for the Kennedy family and for the country, since with all his faults JFK had gotten the attention of the country and the first true TV news event with non-stop coverage for days. |
Jackie Day
Citizen
Username: Zoesky1
Post Number: 201
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 1:44 pm: |
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not born yet...but as pointed out above, the Reagan assassination attempt seemed huge to me (I was 13)...I vividly remember listening to the radio and feeling very frightened. The space shuttle was horrible; was in college then. But none of this compares to Sept 11. I was pregnant with my 2nd child, one month from having her, and the idea of the world as we know it changing forever while I was about to bring a new baby into it really shook me, in addition, of course, to the deaths of 2900 people -- two of whom I knew. I believe that for my generation (those of born in the late 60s/early 70s), that will be our version of the Kennedy assassination. Even now, on crisp blue-sky days, I remember Sept 11. I can never forget the sense of terror, the ringing phones from frantic relatives (my husband worked nearby and usually walked through the WTC plaza on his way to work precisely at 8:45) , and so on. It seemed like that day darkened, despite the sunshine, and immediately faded to black. |
mrosner
Citizen
Username: Mrosner
Post Number: 800
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 2:08 pm: |
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fifth grade - at P.S. 6 in NYC |
shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 311
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 2:46 pm: |
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With my mother in the beatuy parlor on Avenue X in Brooklyn. Someone ran in to the shop screaming and crying, then all the ladies in the chairs and under the helmet dryers began to scream and cry. In my concrete, four-year-old mind I couldn't imagine why everyone was upset about the death of someone they had never met. |
strawberry
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1460
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 3:31 pm: |
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Emmie,
That's pretty amazing. What did you end up doing that night in Dallas? Were all the bars and Restaurants closed? Was it like a police state? etc.
"That moment has directly affected my foreign policy. See, it changed the nature of the presidency. It changed the security arrangements of the United States of America. I vowed to the American people I would never forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001."
--President George W. Bush
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Jason & John
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Username: Johnh91011
Post Number: 99
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 4:05 pm: |
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Was 6 yrs old. Remember having a knock out fight with my sister (3 years older) that day. To pacify me my mother spent an entire evening telling me about what had happened and helped me get a scrapbook together of the Kennedy's. Pretty much every article published in the next month went into this scrapbook. Wish I still had it.
John |
SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 173
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 4:20 pm: |
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Straw - the entire nation went into shock. Unlike Sept. 11th, where there was inital shock and then mobilization - feeling the need to do something, donating water & food, donating blood, people from across the country taking a trip to NY to show support for the city, etc., etc. There was nothing anyone could do but watch the events unfold on TV. |
emmie
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Username: Emmie
Post Number: 164
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 7:03 pm: |
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Straw,
All the bars that we knew of were closed. But at that point who wanted to party? We stayed glued to the TV at my friend's appartment. The thing is, I was really in the mood to celebrate that night because that A.M. I had gotten a call from my mom saying that a letter had come to their house that day stating I had passed the state board exams for nursing, which was a very big deal. So, for me it is two anniversaries, Kennedy and the beginning of my career. BTW, it was as hard getting out of Dallas the next day as it was getting in. Everyone in Texas, it seemed, had converged to Dallas to drive by the book depository and the what is now known as the "grassy knoll." |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1094
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 9:27 pm: |
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Jet, I meant to say your average 41 year old. 45 was a typo. I wonder what is the youngest age people would remember such a traumatic event. 4 yrs old.3.. I wonder.
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it.
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shoshannah
Citizen
Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 313
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 9:47 am: |
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I was four. I remember what was going on around me, but I did not experience the emotional impact. |
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