[Vision2020] Remembrances of elections past

[Saundra Lund]

I appreciate the perspective from Mr. Bradberry -- thanks for sharing.

Chas, don't assume that those girls weren't being honest about their
memories of Kennedy's assassination!  I was a little over a month shy of
being three years old, and I have remarkably clear memories of it.  Not
because I had any idea what it really meant, of course, but because it was
the first time I saw my mom collapse in tears.  I don't remember what *I*
was doing, but my mom had her daily soaps on while ironing, and when the
announcement was made, I'll never forget her reaction . . . or the color of
the shirt that got burned when she burst into tears  :-(  All the neighbors
home during the day gathered in the street in our neighborhood in OKC; the
adults were in shock, and the kids were confused.  I can clearly remember
the conversations today . . . 


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Chasuk
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:06 PM
To: brentbradberry at netscape.net
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Remembrances of elections past

Thanks for the great story, Brent.

I was born when Eisenhower was still president, though Kennedy had
been elected.  I was tortured for at least a decade by tearful girls
recounting their memories of Kennedy's assassination, when of course
they remembered nothing of the sort.  This usually occurred during
book reports of Profiles in Courage, which most of them had not read.
I spent most of my years until I was 13 despairing that I was too
young to flee to Canada, because I knew that Johnson was going to get
me killed in Vietnam.

Very little ends up as one expects.  Draw what analogies you will.

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