[risk]

Thanks for the ping, Ronnie. For sure our war in Vietnam was poorly led and prosecuted with wavering commitment without JFK's charisma. It's possible that our combat there could have been on a smaller scale if he had lived. And even Oswald acted alone, JFK's murder was still a part of the global communist conspiracy to lock humanity in Marxist chains forever.

Thanks for your generation's service to duty, honor, and country, Ronnie, we are still free. You apparently answered JFK's call:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us we]l or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more.

--JFK's inauguration speech, January 20, 1961

[ALOHA RONNIE]

I am deeply touched, risk, by your insightful wisdom and CLARITY.

In the End JFK inspired us to the Moon ahead of the Communists despite his not being all that we thought he was at the time.