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Paladin

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19. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Reply to William Gustafson (Reply #14)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 07:45 AM

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I was in 8th grade at the time. Decades later I went to a reunion at my junior high, and I was still able to find the exact spot in the cafeteria where I was standing, when a schoolmate came up to me and told me that JFK and Connolly had been shot. I had school friends whose parents were planning on attending a JFK speech that night in Austin. The cadence of those muffled drums at the funeral service the following week still echoes in my memory. Way too profound and sad to forget.

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