Reply #10: I posted this to ask that very question: [View All]

[EFerrari]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2795105&mesg_id=2795105

I only have two earlier memories. I remember going up some stairs with my grandmother to pay the rent and asking for candy from the landlady when I was told NOT to do that. And I have a memory of when my grandfather died, fuzzy and mostly aural. I remember screaming and crying -- he died in my room while I was napping and my poor family found him there.

So, JFK and the Kennedys were instrumental in how I learned to think about all of us. It was a sort of cocky, optimistic but respectful take on who we were. There was a sense of possibility and of being able to take on challenges.