Posted on 11/22/2020 8:53:24 AM PST by JBW1949
November 22, 1963
“I was filling out my mail in ballot for Joe biden.”
You win.
I was still an infant in 1945.
Interesting question. I know at least 50% of me was in my mother, and the other 50% was not yet created by my father. My youngest older brother was a mere 4 month old. My other sibs were in grade school.
CS Lewis, however, one of my heroes, would be taking his final breaths. And I think some philandering commie Massachusetts hill billy would be meeting his maker in Texas...
What about your mother. You’re a part of her too.
A woman is born with all the eggs she’s going to have. Part of you was there, you just didn’t know it.
Anyway....I was in first grade. I usually walked to and from school, but the weather was bad that day and a neighbor lady who came to pick up her daughter gave me a ride home. My teacher hadn’t said anything about Kennedy, but the neighbor told us. I wasn’t exactly sure who Kennedy was, except for a memory that my father had seen him at McDonnell Aircraft when he visited in 1962, but I found out plenty in the days and weeks ahead. I can still picture all of the TV coverage. It was after that that I first started paying attention to politics and government. I watched the party conventions in 1964. I was a Goldwater man.
One thing that strikes me funny is that this flub-up on the year has probably gotten more responses than if I had gotten the year right...ROFL...
I was in high school drafting class when the announcement came over the intercom in the classroom. I was a sophomore. Classes were dismissed for the rest of the day.
I also remember I was upset because they decided to cancel the last football game of the season, a game I was scheduled to play in with the varsity team for the first time as a sophomore. Funny where your priorities are at that age.
But I was fascinated with the events surrounding the assassination. I rushed home from Sunday School and turned on our B&W TV to watch live as Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas police station parking garage. I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't tell anyone because no one else in my family was home from church yet.
I’ll assume you transposed the figures.
I was in the fifth grade. I cannot remember how I heard that JFK had been shot, but I remember playing touch football during recess. On our way back in to school, one of the teachers told no one in particular that he had died.
We were on split sessions. I was in the afternoon group. I got home at about 4:00. Mom was crying. It was the first time I ever saw my Mom cry.
We watched TV for most of the rest of the weekend. I think I saw LH Oswald get shot on live TV, but memory is a little fuzzy.
I was doing the same thing on that Sunday...I yelled out to my mom and dad when Ruby shot....
Was a junior in HS on my way from PE to a math class (57 years ago BTW) and on the outside basketball court, lower level, was passing Larry Peoples and he asked if I had heard the news (had not). He informed me Kennedy had been shot.
Dyslexia was perfected. Was it 57 or 75?
What was I doing? Trying to figure out how to treat my dyslexia.
Walking down the hall on the way to the locker room for 6th grade PE class, when Coach Cesarek sent us all back to our classrooms after telling us the news. The nuns were all crying and they sent us home for the rest of the day.
It’s funny how events like that are seared in our collective memories forever.
Think he was involved in it!
Did you ever get it solved???LOL
57 years ago I was in high school about to turn 15...Where I lived it was Saturday morning and my cheeky kid brother woke me up boasting I know something you dont know I know something you dont know and then told me that the American president, Kennedy had been assassinated...
it was the day before my birthday. Pretty rotten day back then.
Little known fact was that it was also the day that C. S. Lewis died. I’ve read every religious and thought book he’s written (i. e., not the Narnia chronicles) and they’re great, thought provoking books.
Oh please no change! It's like moths to flame.
Say Phinneous, you ever notice that the name "Jack" [ג'ק] appears nowhere in the Tanach... meaning that no gimel-kuf string appears within a word anywhere, even separated by other letters. There are a few occurrances where words join (2 forward; 6 in reverse order), but back to this word situation in particular:
There is one lone word containing both a gimel and a kuf, and they appear reversed, and are separated by a letter.
Ziklag. Where David rescued the captives and got word about the death of Saul. Thus David was near becoming king over all Israel.
A place of great timing in the historical documents.
You can see then that "Jack" (which contains a geresh) is hidden deep cover within Ziklag [זקלג] as
kuf-lamed-gimel, which is the numeral 133, same as the sum of Boston (which is Je-bus-town, New Jerusalem), where Jack was from, the subject of this thread about the 75 years.
As the Boston tourist slogans say (in the present tense):
"The Revolution Happens Here"
Naturally, there is a song (Psalm) for that:
133
1. A Song of Maalot of David; Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity:
2. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that runs down upon the beard, Aaron's beard, that runs down to the hem of his garments:
3. Like the dew of Hermon descending upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life for evermore:
Exactly.
An Irishman and a Jew walks into a bar...
Isn't that the whole Point? Drink! There's even a blessing that goes with it, "L'Chaim!"
Fits right in with the tradition that Rikva was the gilgul of Eve, the mother of all the living. She was the creative soul who made the very first Purim costume, dressing Jacob in Esau's Sunday best. Smelled like a field.
Talk about a woman way ahead of her time.
swimming in my dads ballsack LOL
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