- I've still been thinking about historical events in our life time
I remember:
Kennedy's assassination
The invasion of Czechoslovakia by USSR
Armstrong's moon walk - The fall of Vietnam
Nixon's resignation
The swearing in of President Ford - Bicentennial celebrations
The Challenger Explosion
The Fall of The Berlin Wall
and of course September 11, 2001
As I think of these events, for many of them the events surrounding them in my own world stand out as much as the actual event. Everything from my irritation at Kennedy's funeral preempting Saturday cartoons, to my disgust at my coworkers playing euchre during Ford's swearing in. When the first shock of 9-11 passed one of my thoughts was how my children , especially my youngest, were finding out about the tragedy. I remembered quite clearly my mother's frustration over how the news was handled in our elementary school when Kennedy was assassinated.
Hoping the next historical event he have to remember is a positive one
Shalom
Carol
3 comments:
The bullets have no significance, I'm not sure why they appear only in the places they did.
one very recent, positive historical event: the nomination of a black american as the presidential candidate of a major political party! i had my kids watch his acceptance speech (even olivia, who is bored by most politics) because i felt it was an important milestone in our country.
Are we really that old to have seen that much history?
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