Don’t you understand? He slumbers still, but only because of society’s shared belief. Should people forget, or should they learn he is undead-
Oh crap.
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kennedy R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
Is this like Camelot again, with Jack being the Once and Future President? :eek:
Too soon.
It’s minorly annoying, I’ll agree, but 50 years is sort of an understandable time for such things, due to how insane we humans are about certain numbers. So long as they don’t make a big deal of the 51st anniversary, I’m a’ight.
Now perhaps we can get some TV documentaries of how Kennedy wasn’t the absolute perfect president, and how his decisions were not always the best ones.
I have never enjoyed the whitewashing and putting on pedestals of public figures when they are dead.
I don’t have any issue with commemorating the assassination. But it’s been a week of talk about it. Too much. There are other things happening in the world. Those things just might matter.
Two reasons:
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Conspiracy theories.
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It’s like a funeral; it’s more for the living than for the dead. This was a traumatizing event for multiple generations, and so it’s still of intense interest to those who lived through it. So yes, this is yet another thing you can blame on the Baby Boomers.
I wish this thread would drop off the front page of the forum. Every time I see it, I think it’s an announcement of my fate today. It’s very disconcerting.
The difference between Thanksgiving and Assassination Day, is that on Thanksgiving Mom doesn’t poison the turkey.
So, leave it to those of us who stood agap with tears in our eyes for days.
In the years since, we’ve been told about his feet of clay, but then, that day, the world stopped, held it’s breath, then cried.
I was 16 and in Civics class.
When I see the news footage, It all comes rushing back, just like it does every 9/11.