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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
I was in second grade ... all the students were herded into the gymnasium to watch Walter Cronkite's broadcast on a B&W TV ... it was the first (and only) time I ever saw the teachers cry ... we were so scared, even though we didn't understand what had happened
I also remember seeing Jack Ruby shoot Oswald live on the news ....
We really haven't come very far, have we?
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For all the things I don't mourn, there's been a loss of hope, of the expectation of better things to come, that I don't think we ever got back. Cynicism rules. And despondency.