Since Thanksgiving lands on the fouth thursday of Nov

[blues90]

This year it lands rigth on the very day Kennedy was murdered . I had not considered this and for me it does change things a bit .

I will remember JFK and sort of as always pass on the false history book mentality of Thanksgiving .

[yardwork]

1. I was only three years old but I remember that day very well.

[Critters2]

3. I was five.

My little sister and I were playing dolls on the floor, while my mom ironed and watch a soap. I'll always remember the shock on her face when they broke into her show with the news that he'd been shot. She sat down, kind of curled up, and I thought she was hurt somehow. And then there was RFK and Dr. King. To this day, even the "breaking news" banner on CNN sends a chill down my spine.

Of course, more often than not "breaking news" now means missing white suburban woman's douche bag husband has said something stupid. But still....

[yardwork]

4. Yes. And it's no comfort to know that it really was as bad as it seemed - worse, even.

I think that those three assassinations signaled the coup. We are only slowly beginning to recognize the extent of the fascism under which we live.

[Individualist]

2. That was the first thing I thought of when I found out Thanksgiving is on the 22nd this year

I'll also be remembering JFK that day, as I always do on Nov. 22.

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. That was also my parents wedding anniversary

And they still went out to dinner that night
(my dad was an ideological Repug)

[blues90]

6. I was 15 sitting in Gym class

When they called us in to sit on the floor against the lockers when the announcement came over the schools PA system . I can't remember thanks giving that year I think we just had it while watching all the sarrow and horror unfold but it was not the usual thanksgiving at all .

Since then this country has lost the dream , to me it was the end of hope and now I see it really was . My wife said to me this morning since my birthday is Nov 10th that I had just turned 15 , I said yeah 44 years ago thanks for reminding me as if I didn't feel old enough already .

[Desertrose]

15. I was 15 and in HS art class...

the announcement came over the PA system and no one really believed it...


We were sent home and I'll never forget some of the rabid brain washed repub kids cheering....others called them on it and the bus driver had to make everyone "sit down and be quiet!" She was visibly upset..as were most people who had a heart.

The next few days were a nightmare of drums cadences and funeral marches.....a very black time in so many ways......

I still can hear those drums.....and the riderless horse.....will haunt me always.


DR

[blues90]

16. I wish I were in my art class instead of GYM

That made it all the more surreal . I still can see the images of the funeral and the dark cold rainy day on the black and white TV set .

All the study since then of how it happened and we will probably never know . I certainly never bought the single bullet theory .

Something like that day never goes away in many peoples minds , then we were dragged through years of hell after that even though we had the new music and the british invasion things were never quite than same with that haunting memory left .

[lib2DaBone]

20. Exactly.. Me too!

I was in Phys ed class and they called us in and told us to go home. We had to walk 8 Miles. The school buses were not running. It was a cold but sunny day. I stopped at the Phillips-66 Sation on the way home and I got a Grape NeHi out of the vending machine. I walked all the way home and cried... 13 years old at the time. Now, those same people run our country! Isnt that special? I won't be celebrating Thanksgiving. I lost my job last week.(After 3 years of hard work) They are contesting my un-employment compensation, so even the gas money I had hoped for may not be forthcoming. So dont forget folks, vote Republican like the Bible Beaters and Je-a-sus will provide you a juicy Turkey this Holiday. If your tummy growles.. you just ain't Patriotic enough!

[wellstone dem]

7. I was 7

in second grade and was standing in line in our school basement, when a fellow student said, "my dad just called and said President Kennedy was shot." We called the student a liar.

We never had TV until this happened. I remember going to a local abbey with my Dad to watch on Sunday. On Monday, my parents went out and got a television so that we could watch.

Oh, and it was my Dad's birthday, I don't remember celebrating.

[H2O Man]

8. One of

my best friends was killed on 11-22-78. I always think about those things around Thanksgiving time.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

9. I was 15 and a soph in HS

Headed to an orthodontist appt. When I get in the taxi the driver (one I'd had a few times before) said dispatch had just informed him that Pres Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. As we headed out, he called in to see what else they knew and we talk about it on the way. I get to the appt and they have it on the radio. Same cabbie comes back for me about an hour later, I think by then the President was dead. :cry:

[PCIntern]

10. 5th Grade, Quaker School, ..

dismissed Fridays at 2 PM. Late room teacher, not a member of the Society of Friends I must add, involuntarily cheered and smiled when she heard the news. I'll never forget.

Mom came to pick me up a minutes later, was crushed. Had heard early reports on the radio that a "known Communist" was being sought for the assassination.

She knew there'd be a cover-up and she was right. Got me started politically...

[LWolf]

11. Smiled and cheered?

Good God.

:puke:

[PCIntern]

13. Yes...

her relative-by-marriage is presently a long-serving well-known RW Congressman from a state south of the Mason-Dixon Line. A real prick, but not well-known outside his district, so under the radar, as it were.

[LWolf]

14. I can not imagine

smiling and cheering in my classroom, in front of my students, should GWB be assassinated.

I doubt very much that I hold GWB in any greater esteem than your teacher did JFK.

Still, I would not celebrate assassination of any president, or the murder of any individual.

I'm sorry that she left you with that particular legacy of the day.

[PCIntern]

17. Not at all...

I learned an early lesson about RW hatemongering...my generation was too late for McCarthy live on TV.

[Raine]

18. Same thing happened in my school ...

I was in 7th grade only it wasn't the teacher, it was the students. I went to private school that was filthy with repugs and when the principal came into announce what had happened several students began to applaud and cheer. The principal gave them an icy stare and told them to "keep quiet" they immediately shut up, he then went out and lowered the flag. It's something I will never forget, my memory of that horrible day always made worse by my classmate's ugliness.

[Skidmore]

12. It also lands on my birthday...as it does about every

7th year.

[Catchawave]

19. I was just 17, if you know what I mean.....

(couldn't resist, the Beatles arrived 2 months later)

That was the day Boomer Nation began their adulthood....way too early :cry: