Remembering 1968

[Bluerthanblue]

The author of this piece articulates her reasons as to why Hillary's comment was recieved by many of us, in the way it was:

I am a child of the Sixties, I may have been young but I remember watching all of it. The Excitement, The Hope on people's faces, and how it all shifted in the Spring of 1968. I used to go visit my Great Aunt May in Downtown Baltimore and I was at her big Old Brownstone when Martin Luther King was assassinated, and we listened to Bobby Kennedy on the radio that night.And my great Aunt, a child of the Civil War lit candles and sang Amazing Grace and cried. And I rode home with my grandmother and we shared Kleenex and the Peppermint lifesavers were salty from the tears. My Aunt May was in her Nineties, she had lived in her Brownstone since the 1930's. She paid for it herself. She was a retired Opera Singer, dancer, model and performer. She lived in that house and that Neighborhood was her neighborhood, and her people. She knew everybody and they knew her, she was Missy May. She said when Martin was killed " There will be Trouble, This should not have happened".

And that Spring it started to feel tense when we would go see Aunt May on Thursdays to pick up laundry and bring the groceries. There were less smiles and less singing on the street and less jumping rope. Something had changed. "The Hope has Shifted" My Aunt May said.

By June the Hope would indeed Shift. Bobby Kennedy was Killed the first week of June , 1968 on a night that should have brought Hope and Optimism.He was brutally murdered on a Night of Victory in front of those who loved him. We went down to see my Aunt May, she lived in ..............
please continue reading here:http://thepeacetree.blogspot.com/2008/05/remembering-1968.html

Intentional or not- innocent or tinged with innuendo, our words have power. Hillary knows that. Obama knows that. We all know that.

68 was a painful year for our nation. Those of us who lived through it can't forget. Shouldn't forget.
We are who we are today -in part- as a result of what we have endured.

I wish us all

Peace, comfort and healing~

blu

[HockeyMom]

1. We lost our innocence

and those years changed the course of history. I have always thought that had Bobby lived, we would never be where we are today.