[A knight without armor]

My childhood fish I can't buy anywhere now is carp. They would be huge like 60 lbs. out of the Mississippi River and my parents fed me the fried rib pieces because you can easily pull out the long rib bones. The rest of the world considers carp a trash fish but I love it and so did everyone where I'm from.

When I was in the first grade on Fridays I'd go home for lunch and I'd have fish sticks, catsup, and chocolate milk. I still love that combination. I was eating that when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated. When I went back to school the kids were all abuzz about it.

[IIntense]

Though I don't think I've had carp, my grandfather caught blowfish at the New Jersey shore. Good eating!

Those of us old enough to remember at the time recall what we were doing when the news reported that John F. Kennedy, president of the U.S., had been shot. While my two children, 17 mos and 2 mos old napped, I was watching TV while ironing in my living room. My husband had just been told that the big company layoff included him. At the age of 25, my world rocked badly.