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CTyankee

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4. I remember I was preparing some food for dinner and my husband calling me

Reply to lastlib (Original post)

Fri Jun 30, 2017, 05:09 PM

Jun 2017

and just saying "Turn on the tv. Kennedy has been shot." I remember thinking that it couldn't be that bad, maybe somebody just wounded him..."

Well, dinner that night never happened. What a sad and horrible time.

So when we get all bunched up over Trump, remember that we were there before as a nation, united in shock and disbelief...

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I remember I was preparing some food for dinner and my husband calling me CTyankee Jun 2017 #4