<p>I'm sorry for inadvertently hijacking your thread, Tom. I didn't see where it was heading, which I would have if I had been more mindful.</p>
<p>Again, my apologies. </p>
<p>Kennedy's assassination had very little obvious influence on my life, I think because I was a post-Vietnam baby. I had grown up half-expecting to die there, and then suddenly I wasn't. And then Watergate happened, and the SLA kidnapped Patty Hearst, and Jimmy Carter tried to rescue the Iran hostages, and everything moved so fast that I blinked and I was a married man with children, with the tabloids speculating about Big Foot and Roswell, and how many women Kennedy might have had sex with in the White House. By the time I had a chance to think about Kennedy again, the details of his life had been lost in a big circus, and that wasn't even counting the conspiracy theories. </p>
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<div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div>I have absolutely no problem remembering when and where I was at the time of important events.</div><div><br></div><div>September 11, 2001 - I was installing mofifications on a utilities-tracking database at UI Facilities (Office of Utilities and Engineering). I had just stepped outside for a smoking break, joking around with Mike Holthaus (the Facilities water utilities guru), when a news-flash was broadcast from a radio in the HVAC shop (they always had a local radio station on their shop radio) announcing that a commercial jet had crashed into the World Trade Center in New York.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The primary purpose for my starting this thread was to develop a topic that (hopefully) might serve to unite us V-Peeps in discussion, and possibly share some experiences, NOT to provide a platform to question peoples' memories.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I was hoping that the Viz might be open to discussing John F. Kennedy, the impact of his presidency, and the loss (still felt by the USA) resulting from his death . . . realizing that November 22, 2013 (Friday) marks fifty years since his assassination.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I realize now thT I was expecting too much from this listserve.</div><div><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div>
<div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com" target="_blank">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size:medium">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size:medium"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size:medium">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:medium">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br>
</span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Donovan Arnold <<a href="mailto:donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com" target="_blank">donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p dir="ltr">People remember things differently because we are all different. The brain remembers thoughts and feelings too. Usually, when we experience a major event we cannot realize what is happening until afterward. So what we remember are our thoughts and feelings at the time, not always the actual events. When events on 911 occured nobody knew what was happening at that moment. Many people still only remember their thoughts and feelings about the planes crashing into the WTC, nothing else that happened that day and other tragic events. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I was in OKC & was about five weeks shy of my third birthday. I was at home with my mother, who was watching her soaps while ironing. She’d just gotten her bag of sprinkled clothes out of the fridge when the tragedy hit the air. I had absolutely no understanding of the actual event, but my mother’s reaction is something I clearly recall – it was the first time I ever saw her cry – even if I didn’t understand The Bigger Picture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [<a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com" target="_blank">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chasuk<br clear="none">
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</p><p>I was also in California, five days before my 3rd birthday. I don't remember the assassination, but I do remember the countless stories from my chrono-peers who all thought that they did. It was my first lesson on the inaccuracy of human memory. </p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal">On Nov 18, 2013 12:29 PM, "Tom Hansen" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</p><p class="MsoNormal">. . . on November 22, 1963?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">
I was in the 7th grade at Robert Fulton Junior High School in Van Nuys, California.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The news of Kennedy's assassination was received at about 11:00 AM. Some of the teachers were visibly shaken by the news. The school closed down for the day at noon.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">Do you remember where you were when . . .<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Tom Hansen<br clear="none">Moscow, Idaho<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">=======================================================<br clear="none">
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