I was in first grade, Irving Texas, just next door to Dallas, I had been in school 2 months. The principle turned on the loud speaker with direct radio, the teachers started crying, we started crying, and all went home about an hour early when it was explained what had happened. A lifetime ago.
What? Ann Dunham was giving birth to Barry Soetoro in Parkland Hospital?
“I was in first grade, Irving Texas, just next door to Dallas, I had been in school 2 months. The principle turned on the loud speaker with direct radio, the teachers started crying, we started crying, and all went home about an hour early when it was explained what had happened. A lifetime ago.”
Our junior high school on Long Island was being built, so for that year we had to go to the high school till it was complete.
We were sent home early and on my way up the stairs to my locker all I heard was the older kids crying and lockers slamming. No talking at all. Only young, I still remember being struck it was like Lincoln, as far as the love the country had for that man and the effect it was having.
Still hurts me to think of it.
I was in North Richland Hills, a few miles away and was a couple of years younger than you. Remember some details vividly, especially the mono-chromatic live TV feed of the funeral.