Is it because fewer of us remember?

[MyOwnPeace]

Going on 4 PM (EST) and I've not seen a single post about 58 years ago today - being sent home from school because President Kennedy had been shot - and died.
One of those things you never forget - where you were, who was there, what was said.

Tragic loss for America - and for the dreams of a fair and just society.

[Tommy Carcetti]

1. A lot of us weren't even alive.

Myself included.

Still a tragic day for America.

[Croney]

2. There have been threads all day.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216076930

[marybourg]

3. There were several, including:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216077522 and https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216077367

[elleng]

4. Sorry you missed this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216076619

[ChazII]

5. I was 5 when this

happened. The news channels' lead story would be a reminder of what happened on this date. This would have been from the 60's through my high school years in the mid '70s.

[Journeyman]

6. Perhaps some of us choose to remember in the quiet of our minds . . .

Saturday was the anniversary of arguably the most important speech ever made on American soil, a speech that remade the nation. What did you do to recognize that momentous event?

[4Q2u2]

7. I was not

But that is what the other side wants. Us to forget the Best of Us. Their constant flame show distracts from the real important stuff.

[wcmagumba]

8. I was in 2nd grade and it was my day to get the little milk cartons for snack time...

I had just come back into the classroom when they told us...

[spanone]

9. I saw a post about it being 58 years ago at 7am this morning. I was 12 years old.

Remember it like it was yesterday.

[Hoyt]

10. Vividly remember-- News announcement, 3 days of TV/radio coverage, funeral, and national mourning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. No. Some of us don't look. There were threads early and running all day. . . . nt

[LoisB]

12. I was 17 and still remember exactly where I was. No one believed it at first, "no one shoots the

President". If only we knew how commonplace shooting anyone would become.

[Caliman73]

13. 10 years before my time.

We all live with the consequences, but many of us were not around when it happened.

[quaint]

14. Most remember.

These are threads I read:

https://democraticunderground.com/100216078106
https://democraticunderground.com/10181586900
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077522
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077398
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077367
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077323
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077165
https://democraticunderground.com/100216077069
https://democraticunderground.com/100216076930

[Ferryboat]

15. Remember it like it happened yesterday

In alot of conversations with people younger than me I feel the need to provide a little backstory to current events.

Iran contra, school of the Americas, Kent state these are things people of a certain age know.

To students these are just something that happened in the past. Rarely taught or discussed, yet these are still having an effect today.

The school of the americas is still ongoing still teaching future strongmen how to be badasses.
This program is a major reason why the southern border is such a mess.

Along with other books The Confessions are an Economic Hitman by John Perkins should be required reading in schools. Fat chance thet ever happening.

Kennedy's assassination, MLK terrible times.

Bobbys especially, I consider his the inflection point where America really went off the rails.

[USALiberal]

16. Did you search for previous threads?? There were many

[MyOwnPeace]

21. No, I did not........

just commenting on what I had seen in the different moments that I scrolled through at different times throughout the day......

Glad to know that others were thinking about it also.......

[hamil]

17. I could never forget

because it happened on my wife's birthday. Recalling either event keys recall of the other.

[MuseRider]

18. 5th grade

yes I remember.

[Torchlight]

19. Aging population is my guess.

For years, I've noticed Dec 7 comes and goes with almost no mention made of its historical relevance outside of more the esoteric channels of daily information.

Though there may be a dropped one-liner here or there, I think its real, measurable impact on a cultural level is being forgotten.

I think that goes for a lot of things, some we ourselves hold dear, others we've forgotten just as easily as the shirt we wore a year ago. My grandfathers's favorite expletive was a quick, loud "John Brown!!!"

[padfun]

20. Things fade as time goes on.

I mean, I'm still upset that people don't remember the volcano at Pompei 2000 years ago.

[MyOwnPeace]

22. Indeed they do........

I'll admit - I pay more attention to the date of the Mt. St. Helen eruption than 'that one' that was not even in our own country.......

[petronius]

26. It still surprises me when my undergrads don't remember Mount St. Helens

Although if I do the math, there's a reasonable chance their parents don't remember it either!

[Tomconroy]

23. I was five when my parents took me to see his motorcade

When he campaigned in New Haven in November 1960. Today I prefer to think of that day and waving to him.

[BlackSkimmer]

24. You know, I've recently read numerous biographies of Jackie.

She HATED the big "anniversary" of his murder.

She always asked, "Why don't they remember him on his birthday?"

Sadly, John Jr.'s birthday was the 25th I think, and Caroline on the 27th.

[sinkingfeeling]

25. I posted a thread this morning, along with several others.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216077165

[MyOwnPeace]

30. VERY nice post......

and some wonderful responses - thanks!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

27. I was 6 years old then

Until that point Kennedy was just someone I saw on TV. Didn't know who or what a president was.

[CJW]

28. JFK

I was in junior high at the time. I remember my teacher crying at her desk.

[Kaleva]

29. I was 4 years old.

[canetoad]

31. JFK assassination

Is as far in the past as the first world war was when I was a kid.