My Thought Processes

I remember things like "the day the music died"- the deaths of Richie Valenz, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper- at my age- I was born in 1952- that was a major event. But I would say the real major event had to be the assassination of John F. Kennedy- just 2 days after my 11th birthday. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was sitting in my sixth grade classroom. A teacher in another room had a television on for her class, and Walter Cronkite broke in with the news from Dallas. She called my teacher and told him, and then he broke the news to us. They sent us all home early, and it was just like the entire world came to an awful stop. What a terrible weekend that was. Some things you just do not forget.