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In reply to the discussion: Generation JKF About to Re-Live the 60's in Their 60's: Are You Experienced? [View all]2naSalit
(86,872 posts)then we were all sent home. We were almost all military kids and the school was close to a large military housing complex where we lived. My dad came home and watched the teevee and cried. My mom was really upset.
We had recently returned to New England from Key West where we lived during the Bay of Pigs/missile crisis thing... my family was an open political family where politics were openly discussed at any time. And my dad's family were personally acquainted with the Kennedy family, the family estate was not far down the shore from the K-Compound in Hyannis. I grew up with politics and can recall the Kennedy/Nixon teevee debate as well as a couple broadcasts of Ike while he was in office. I knew what nuclear bombs were and did the "duck&cover" crap at every school until I was in 6th grade, I think.
Yeah, getting older has some benefits, I guess they balance out the stuff we can no longer do.