Reply #40: Shock is a weird thing...some people will go to "odd" places [View All]

[rasputin1952]

when very disturbing news hits. Most of those you ran into were most likely unable to cope w/the immediacy of the situation. But there are those who really were "dancing" in the street". I recall reading that after Lincoln was carried from Ford's Theater, and individual made the incredibly stupid remark, in a crowd of highly emotional people, that he was "glad the bastard was dying". It took more than 20 DC police officers to drag people off of him, he was nearly beaten to death.

Kennedy was not universally liked. I never liked Reagan, but I gave out and "Oh Shit!" when he was shot. I can still picture the news clips of the women and girls looking shocked, there they were, horn-rimmed glasses, babushka's and tears, covering their faces, their mouths and looking like the world had just come to and end.

For me, it's as if a cloud went over the nation, and only on the rarest of occasions has the sun broken though. I'm looking at Obama as a break in that cloud, a return to something we lost 45 years ago...a future.