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In school - we were told the President was shot and to prepare to leave school in an orderly manner. A little while later we were told he was dead and to go home.

People were crying openly in the streets and yes I do remember it, but I also vividly remember many things of significance in my life. The day MLK was shot, the day RFK was shot. The attempted assasination of President Reagan and even Moscone/Milk killings.

All in the name of Kennedy mystique and a foggy notion of Camelot there is an almost worshipful way the media discusses Kennedy's murder; it seems an attempt to relegate the others to less importance.

Kennedy memories pale in comparison to the vividness of 9/11. Yes, some will say that is only because not enough time has not passed to put things into perspective. The three thousand people who were murdered that day will always be a vivid memory and truthfully a memory of more significance and pain to me than JFK.