No one remembers 11/22/'63 ?

[monbla256]

One of the saddest days in US history. The third president ever to be assassinated and no one here has said anything! Guess there wasn't an APP for it on the "phone"

 

[tarheel7734]

Just watched JFK the other day. It was all before my time so it is hard to remember. Watched the new X men last night with wife and they mentioned it also but from a fictional perspective.

No matter the man, it is a shame and disgrace when the leader of a country in the free world is assassinated by one of its people..

I dont care for Obama, but would still put my life on the line for the office.

 

[Briar Spirit]

I'm not so sure many folk here in Blighty would be all that concerned if our Prime Minister were to meet an unhappy demise but if any one were to harm our Queen, well now that's a different story entirely. I'm NOT a Royalist by any stretch of the imagination but there is still something ancient within me which tells me to protect Her Majesty and protect her I would with my very life. If I even hear someone utter a threat to our Queen I punch them squarely in the face, there may be aspects of Leadership we dislike but once 'the people' lose respect for the Leader of their Country, well, let's face it, it wont end well will it. We have Government here so our Queen isn't strictly speaking our Leader but I still consider the Queen to be our Sovereign Leader and will not stand for bad things being said about her, if someone hurt her and I got my hands on that person it would NOT end well for that person.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I was busy trying not to forget the Alamo, the War of 1812, The Hundred Years War, the
Three Hundred And Thirty-Five Year War...  

...there needs to be an app, Monbla.   It'll have every significant event in history on timer-alarm, the moment its anniversary hits.  

We shall never forget!  

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PS... Playin' around, JFK was a cool dude.   My father calls it "...the day the last reasonable Democrat died...."...totally serious.   He hates politics, especially these days.

 

[Richard Burley]

Quick now, no cheating--when was Lincoln assassinated? I don't remember any caterwauling on the anniversary of that date either. Tsk, tsk!

 

[pepesdad1]

........ Guess there wasn't an APP for it on the "phone"

Nope, too busy with the atrocities of today.  

Those of us who were young adults at the time, remember it all too well......all too well.

 

[RDPipes]

I remember most vividly but, don't see a good reason to bring it up every year.
Sorta like someone reminding you of the deaths in your family every year.

 

[riff raff]

Wow, I can't believe there was zero on this in our paper,MSN news page, etc. I completely missed it. That would have been unthinkable 20 years ago (heck maybe even 10?). I remember last year when Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day barely had a few lines in page 3-4 of our paper, that also made me sad.

 

[monbla256]

Wow, I can't believe there was zero on this in our paper,MSN news page, etc.  I completely missed it.  That would have been unthinkable 20 years ago (heck maybe even 10?).  I remember last year when Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day barely had a few lines in page 3-4 of our paper, that also made me sad.

Just points out that "people who forget history are doomed to repeat it" :twisted:

 

[daveinlax]

Last year's 50th anniversary was an overload. I watched several hours of the coverage. :shock:

 

[MisterE]

I guess we're seeing how stuff begins to fade from the public consciousness. Smartphone people probably remember 9/11 like the landline/snail-mail folk remember 11/22 or 7/12. In 2050 they'll laugh that we actually drove cars and depended on fossil fuels. George Bush will just be a picture and sidebar on the US History app.

 

[puros_bran]

If it bothered you so much why didn't you post something about it!!  Guess there wasn't any condescension in that

 

[Richard Burley]

If it bothered you so much why didn't you post something about it!!  Guess there wasn't any condescension in that

:lol!:

 

[monbla256]

If it bothered you so much why didn't you post something about it!!  Guess there wasn't any condescension in that

I did. Your answering it. :twisted: :twisted:

 

[DrT999]

One of the saddest days in US history. The third president ever to be assassinated and no one here has said anything! Guess there wasn't an APP for it on the "phone"

4th (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley). The Bob Edwards (Radio) Weekend show had this:

What if John F. Kennedy had taken the advice of some of his aids and left the top of his car on that fateful day in Dallas? Journalist Jeff Greenfield explores how America and the world might have been different in his book If Kennedy Lived. Greenfield also worked as a speechwriter for Robert Kennedy.

 

[ftrplt]

I remembered!! Still remember our HS principal coming over the intercom and telling us the awful news. We were released early, heading home to watch the TV coverage (Walter Cronkite on CBS or Chet & David on NBC) in black and white!!! TV was on dang near 24/7. The funeral procession, John Jr's salute, the cortege, the music, the great black horse with the reversed boots; yeah, I remembered Awful time FTRPLT

 

[Kyle Weiss]

So if we forget the good stuff in history, that gets repeated too, right? :cheers:

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[docwatson]

I shall never forget that date. I was in History Class Junior year in High School. The whole weekend was spent watching every moment of the tragedy unfold and funeral procession. And to this day I still believe that it was a conspiracy.

 

[Mad Philosopher]

One of the saddest days in US history. The third president ever to be assassinated and no one here has said anything! Guess there wasn't an APP for it on the "phone"

4th (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley).  The Bob Edwards (Radio) Weekend show had this:

What if John F. Kennedy had taken the advice of some of his aids and left the top of his car on that fateful day in Dallas?   Journalist Jeff Greenfield explores how America and the world might have been different in his book If Kennedy Lived. Greenfield also worked as a speechwriter for Robert Kennedy.

Damn, beat me to it. I guess the role of fact checker is already taken. Though I should probably expect as much of a professor of history.

Cheers

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Every clown on this board the Internets thinks of themselves as a fact-checker. Welcome to 2014. :lol: We do sometimes have contests of cantankerousness and grouch-fests for no reason, which makes us more real. Some of us are even nice. :heart:

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