I just now saw your post

[fadedrose]

and was glad to see it. I thought about JFK many times today and thought I'd see more about him tonight on DU. Disappointing...

[flvegan]

1. Who said what now?

[jobycom]

2. What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Probably one of those misplaced responses, where you try to reply in a thread, hit enter one too many times, and start a thread by mistake.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I think FR sorta misdireced a post here, starting a new thread by accident.

There are some very touching threads out there today and tonight about JFK & all that, so I assume that's what this is about.

[fadedrose]

6. You're 300 % correct....

I meant to post this under the post that was ongoing and somehow got mine separated....

Sorry...

[liberalmuse]

4. I was 5 months old when he was murdered.

Even so, it's too painful, even to someone who wasn't really there. This morning when I signed on, there were a lot of posts here about JFK.

[marauding liberal]

5. Yeah, I'm remembering too.

Eighth grade, Catholic school, Sister Stephan breaking the news, everyone sent home. Mom crying, disbelief, shock.

[SharonRB]

8. I was in 9th grade

First heard rumblings in the hall between classes, then a teacher came into my social studies class to tell us before the announcement came over the loudspeaker. We were all asking him what happened and our teacher (who was a bit of a loon) made us all write 100 times "I will not ask Mr. Baskin what happened to President Kennedy," or some such thing.

We were dismissed early, went home and saw my mother (who just passed away this past April) sitting on a chair in the corner of her bedroom crying and watching the TV.

We had recently moved into a new house and didn't yet have furniture in the living room. I grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home and wasn't allowed to go out on Friday nights. A bunch of my friends came over and we all sat around on the floor in the dark in the empty living room talking about what happened. I can remember it all as if it were yesterday.

Two days later, on Sunday, I was in Sunday school and Jack Ruby's niece and nephew who were in my Sunday school class were absent. That, of course, was the day their uncle shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald. It was all over the TV when I got home.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. You know what?

For those of us who were old enough to remember exactly what it was like - those of us who were in college, say - it's become too painful to talk about now. The years seem to make it all worse.

So, for me, anyway, it's better just to let the day go by.