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What Were You Doing 57 Years Ago Today?
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Posted on 11/22/2020 8:53:24 AM PST by JBW1949

November 22, 1963


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: dallas; hugh; jfk; missingmycartoons; newmath; series
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I was thinking it was 75, which makes me just beginning to learn to walk that was 1945.


261 posted on 11/22/2020 3:09:29 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: William Tell

I also was in an 8th grade math class. Edison Jr. High School in Port Arthur, Texas. My head was down on my desk as tears rolled down face and I cried silently. Times have changed. I’m closer to my death than my birth and my country is about to begin it’s swan song. I still feel like putting my head down on that desk and weeping.


262 posted on 11/22/2020 3:41:08 PM PST by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly reccomend private school.)
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To: Bonemaker
Roger that.

I think I keep Lowe's and Home Depot afloat some times.

263 posted on 11/22/2020 4:37:13 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: Jim W N
Nobody back then at 15 years of age was into politics.

What struck me later in life was the nonchalance in notifying the student body during after school announcements on the public address system...not even breaking into classes to tell us Pres. Kennedy had been assassinated.

These were Franciscan priest who taught us, not Commie Jesuits, so yes, it was a shock to my system.

264 posted on 11/22/2020 4:46:08 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: JBW1949
I was in Southbridge, Massachusetts on my first job after graduating from a French-Canadian Catholic high school in 1962. The man in the next office was on his phone in a state of shock and disbelief that the President had been shot. Later another call came in that the President was dead.

That whole weekend was like a bad dream that wouldn't end. Even my father, who was a rock-ribbed Republican, was sad.

265 posted on 11/22/2020 4:47:27 PM PST by Inspectorette
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To: JBW1949

I was boxing up books in the 5th floor of the Texas Book Depository.


266 posted on 11/22/2020 5:50:32 PM PST by Old Yeller (Release the Kraken..)
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To: HotHunt
As in carpentry, measure twice, cut once.

Or measure once, and cuss twice.
267 posted on 11/22/2020 5:51:35 PM PST by Old Yeller (Release the Kraken..)
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To: SubMareener

Syslexlics Untie!

Yeah I am one of htem.


268 posted on 11/22/2020 6:00:03 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden and Kamala are China's bitches)
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To: Old Yeller

😂


269 posted on 11/22/2020 6:02:38 PM PST by HotHunt
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To: JBW1949

I was years from even being a gleam in my daddy’s eye.


270 posted on 11/22/2020 6:11:12 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: JBW1949

I was just about to step into a better job than the one I had.


271 posted on 11/22/2020 9:43:59 PM PST by oldtech
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To: JBW1949

Maintenance work on the 01 deck of the USS Vulcan, homeported in NOB NORVA.


272 posted on 11/22/2020 10:00:24 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JBW1949

LOL! My first reaction was “HOW old am I?” I do sometimes forget these days!


273 posted on 11/23/2020 11:19:48 AM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: FrdmLvr

The moderator changed the title for me from “75 years” to “57 years”...

As you probably read, everyone got a good charge out of my mistake...

It was pretty funny...


274 posted on 11/23/2020 11:24:20 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Texas resident

“...Syslexlics Untie!

Yeah I am one of htem...”

ROFLMAO!!!!!!! That was good...Evry good!!!!


275 posted on 11/23/2020 11:27:23 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: JBW1949

Learning to walk


276 posted on 11/23/2020 11:33:36 AM PST by EBH (God Save the Republic. God is in Control. God knows what He is doing. )
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To: blam

Thank you for your service.


277 posted on 11/23/2020 3:45:06 PM PST by ScholarWarrior
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To: JBW1949
I was in Fifth Grade. The Principal came in and with the teacher broke the news. It was a shock to all of us, regardless of party. IIRC, we were released early.

My uncle was career Navy stationed in the Washington area, or maybe Norfolk. Later, he showed the family home movies he made of the funeral procession.

278 posted on 11/23/2020 3:57:01 PM PST by colorado tanker
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