I just posted on Facebook

[TNNurse]

I watched local and national news. I looked at newspapers and other sites online.

There are forest fires, horrible bus wrecks nearby, weather emergencies and shootings and they require immediate attention.

However, I see nowhere a reference to today's date in history...November 22. Just saying the date makes me sad and remember how this 14 yo girl felt.

Do we really forget history that easily???

[geomon666]

1. Yes we do n/t

[redstateblues]

2. I will never forget the incredible sadness

That permeated everything.

[Maeve]

3. My earliest political memory was in kindergarten

We had a vote for president. My family was Republican, but I was first in line for Kennedy and that's who won in our class. (to tell the truth, I chose it because I COULD be first in line! but hey, I was 5)
And I remember my teacher being very upset and I believe we were sent home early. It wasn't real until sometime later.

[Martin Eden]

7. In 1968 my 6th grade class had a presidential vote

The tally:
2 for Humphrey (including me)
6 for Nixon
18 for Wallace

I lived in a blue collar neighborhood on the southwest edge of Chicago, near Midway Airport. Earlier that year I came downstairs for breakfast one morning and found my Aunt Kate weeping. She had just heard the news that MLK had been assassinated. The kids in the playground at school that day were celebrating; the elders in their family had a different view than mine.

I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of the kids I grew up with voted for Trump.

[Ilsa]

4. I was doing paperwork this morning and that was

when I realized the date. I remember the funeral, people talking, etc, but I didn't quite understand the whole significance of it.

[Martin Eden]

6. I remember the funeral. I was 6.

All my favorite cartoons were preempted.

[randr]

5. Our country lost its innocense that day

and we have never recovered the loss.

[barbtries]

9. when i did remember JFK's assassination today,

i did connect it to what's happening now. destruction of the republic playing out slow.

sorry, not having a good day

[KatyMan]

11. Like this is the ultimate result

of the coup that day...

[barbtries]

12. yeah.

[barbtries]

8. i remembered.

but i did not commemorate. too upset over current events i guess.

[bdamomma]

10. I remembered

Nov 22 is etched in my mind.

[2naSalit]

13. I remember it well

as my father was personally acquainted with the family. And we were military at the time, my father being one of the VPs who followed those missiles from Russia to Cuba.