I don't think I'm the only one.

[cali]

I don't participate in the JFK assassination threads because basically, I find it just too painful. 50 years on, and it still radiates raw tragedy and the attendant pain. Same goes for RFK and MLK. I enjoy threads about their lives, it's just the assassination stuff that I just can't get into.

[monmouth3]

1. I'm with you Cali. I'm sitting here with the tv off. I lived through it the first time

and don't want to go there again..

[B Calm]

2. It was a painful day. As a young 12 year old boy and watching my

tough WW2 veteran dad in tears. .

[ananda]

3. I've already been saturated with JFK stuff to the hilt.

It's time to move on.

[Demeter]

4. That's what made "The Butler" so difficult to watch

the nation has PTSD still. I had flashbacks...and I was only 8 at the time.

[Laelth]

5. No, you're not alone.

I don't participate in such threads, either.



-Laelth

[lame54]

12. except this one of course...

[Laelth]

15. Touche. n/t

-Laelth

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. I was not even born, and I don't think you are alone

I do participate in the threads, but so many times the actuality of what happened on that day gets lost in the argument.

There was a great program with Kennedy home movies on the History channel last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[djean111]

7. I also find it really strange that some get so vehement and angry about those who

do not believe the official version of the events - just don't read that stuff, MYOB, etc.
Hurts no one to believe a different version of 9/11, JFK, whatever.
It seems to me that some things, like not believing the moon landing, are just laughed at, but 9/11 and JFK alternate theory thinking provokes a sort of over the top outrage.
Thought police?

Anyway, I just assume that our government can, and will, lie about anything and/or conceal anything if it deems it necessary, so not worth getting all excited about either "conspiracy theories" (actually, alternate explanations, but to label something as a conspiracy theory is sooo much more marginalizing) or Official Explanations.
I do sort of feel that the more rabid the outrage about an alternate explanation, the more likely it is that there is something to hide. Then again, given all the human experiments and torture, I doubt the government even thinks about blushing any more.
Bottom line - why do some get so damned sputteringly upset when people do not believe the government version of stuff? What harm does it do? It is like there is a Correct Thought Patrol.

[cali]

9. I'm not criticizing ANYONE in this thread and that wasn't its intent

though I was pretty sure it would inspire umbrage.

I posted a personal take on why I don't engage in those threads or dwell on that moment in history: I find it too painful. I'm not criticizing those who feel differently.

[djean111]

10. I am not criticizing so much as expressing bewilderment - I just find the whole thing strange.

I do not engage on those threads either, or dwell on the moment.

[Puzzledtraveller]

8. I was born in 1973

it's like something that happened a long long time ago in my frame of reference. I try to imagine being one who can say they were alive when a US president was assasinated and it seems surreal. For that reason I have always felt disconnected from it, I know this would be different had I lived though it.

[scheming daemons]

11. past is prologue

Know who killed jfk... And why... Helps explain why the past 50 years have gone the way they did.

In 2051, we will look back at all the damaging things that occurred because of 9/11 too.

It was an event that changed the trajectory of history... Dramatically.

[Lex]

13. I was 2 years from being born and it is so painful to watch. In fact,

I can't bear to watch the footage from that day any more.

[hedgehog]

14. ABC this morning - laughing and joking, then switching to the solemn faces

for the Kennedy story - hardly appropriate.

[ladyVet]

16. No, not alone.

I don't like to look at that footage, so I'll be keeping my TV on channels that won't show it. I was only five, so I don't remember it in real time, but have read about the day and the way things happened over the years.

RFK and MLK get to me worse, though. I still remember how my mother cried during coverage of Bobby's death. Can't watch any of that stuff either.

[Myrina]

17. Very Painful, yes, like a tear in the fabric of "what's supposed to be" ...

....I wasn't born until 1966 but when I got to be a teenager & started researching JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X ... it was like something purposely stopped the trajectory of society and now, in my late 40's, looking back on all that -- it seems like we fell off a cliff.

And when we lost John Jr ... I was sick. And so sad for Teddy. The pain that man endured in his life. The weight he carried on his shoulders. Seeing him out on the Coast Guard ship identifying the plane ... I just wanted to hug him.

So no, I don't watch these things.