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Where Were You When...
Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2013 | Rich Galen

Posted on 11/22/2013 10:10:12 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/22/2013 10:10:12 AM PST by Kaslin
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I really hate all this crap about JFK, trying to make him some sort of pagan Saint or something


2 posted on 11/22/2013 10:11:36 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Kaslin

I was in my mother’s womb.


3 posted on 11/22/2013 10:12:14 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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"I was in my mother’s womb."

So was I.

4 posted on 11/22/2013 10:15:43 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Kaslin

My 3rd grade class was missing out on recess because they had to practice for a choral performance. I, on the other hand, was out enjoying my recess because I was excused from choral due to not being able to sing on key. (What’s a key?) A classmate suffering the same affliction came up to me with the news. I responded that she was lying and after a bit of a scuffle we were all called into class and given the official word.


5 posted on 11/22/2013 10:16:13 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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“Where were you when you heard the news?” We all know exactly where we were.”

I was in school changing class when it came over the loudspeaker. The cheers were deafening.

To say he was unpopular in Florida would be an understatement.

6 posted on 11/22/2013 10:16:22 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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It was during the lunch break at high school. I was a sophomore. A kid came up to me and said he had just returned from home and had heard that Kennedy had been shot.

Within seconds it was all over school but we didn’t know he was dead at that time. I do remember the mood kept getting more and more somber as the day went on. The Principal came on the av system during our first class after lunch. He simply told us that the president was dead.


7 posted on 11/22/2013 10:18:40 AM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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In elementary school class, when it was announced over the classroom speakers and the teacher started crying. When she stopped crying, she said what had happened, and asked, “children, what will happen now?” We all replied, “the Soviets will take over.”


8 posted on 11/22/2013 10:19:30 AM PST by kaehurowing
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>> “I was in my mother’s womb.”
>> So was I.

You were in Wayne’s mom’s womb? Freaky.


9 posted on 11/22/2013 10:19:54 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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I was almost 4 1/2 years old. I remember my parents were recovering a hide-a-bed in the back bedroom. All day event. Late in the afternoon as they were cleaning up the mess of scrap material.... my dad said.."kenny, go turn the tv on and see what's going on in the world" (a phrase he often used both before and after). I turned on the black and white TV and the reporting was going on about his death.

Honestly... my dad being a very conservative person... wasn't cheering, but he wasn't all that sad either.

10 posted on 11/22/2013 10:20:51 AM PST by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: PghBaldy

“”I was in my mother’s womb.”

So was I.”

I was doing back flips in the womb!


11 posted on 11/22/2013 10:21:28 AM PST by 9422WMR (: " Tolerance is the virtue of a man who has no convictions".)
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To: Kaslin

I was in Dallas, but in school at the time. When it happened, the school piped in a radio station over the PA system and that’s all we did for the rest of the school day.

After school I went home and my mother hadn’t heard about it. She was shocked when I told her. I then went on my paper route for the Dallas Times Herald (no longer there) and they already had it for the a afternoon papers - in a big headline. People were stopping their cars on the street, when I was out on the route, offering to buy a paper from me, but I couldn’t sell them, as I was given the precise number for delivery.

That was quite a day. AND ... from then on, for the next three days there was just about nothing else on the news. The entire country just stopped dead - at that point in time and for the next three days.


12 posted on 11/22/2013 10:22:09 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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I just heard some commentator on fox news say we should be greatful to JFK for getting us out of the Cuban Missile crisis. No mention of who CAUSED the Cuban missile crisis. Turned the TV off......


13 posted on 11/22/2013 10:22:53 AM PST by Mom MD
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>> I really hate all this crap about JFK

I don’t hate it per se... I’m just tired of it. “Where were you when JFK was shot?” At this point, what difference does it make??!?

Anyway, what I really wish is that I could have an opportunity to remember where I was when a different president bought the farm. ;-)


14 posted on 11/22/2013 10:23:07 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: PghBaldy

Does this mean we’re twins?


15 posted on 11/22/2013 10:24:07 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: Nervous Tick

Loading my aircraft in Japan for a flight to Vietnam to help the “Advisers” deal with Kennedy’s war!


16 posted on 11/22/2013 10:25:17 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Where was I? IN A FREE COUNTRY! that’s where....


17 posted on 11/22/2013 10:25:18 AM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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I was in school, a Catholic grammar school, so you can imagine how it was. Only the Pope being shot would have been a bigger deal. They herded us all into the church next door to the school so we could all pray for the President. Nuns were crying. Finally one of the priests stood in front of us and said, “I’m sorry to tell you, our beloved President has died.”


18 posted on 11/22/2013 10:25:56 AM PST by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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I was standing on a grassy knoll in Dallas “cleaning my rifle”.

Actually, I was 5 so I was in kindergarten.


19 posted on 11/22/2013 10:26:22 AM PST by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: PghBaldy

I was still in God’s imagination, but had I been alive, I would like to think that I would be mourning the death of the great C.S. Lewis who died that same day.


20 posted on 11/22/2013 10:26:31 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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