He was young and handsome, he had a beautiful wife, who we all wanted to look like for many years. He was a "Dirty Dog" when it came to women. I truly believe he would not have left us in Vietnam. Somehow we would have pulled us out before so many young men lost their lives in such an unpopular war...... The rest of them came home with a few screws loose......
Growing up after WW2, no one had a lot, we certainly didn't have much. My mom did the best she could and my dad did the best he could.
We were all going along "fat, dumb and happy" and that fateful day while I was sitting in Home Economics when the the principal, Robert Klink, of Mountain View High School, Kingsley Pennsylvania, announced that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and was in critical condition, and a couple hours later we heard he had died from his injuries. That was one Thanksgiving weekend I will never forget, just cried and cried, we loved him........
It wasn't that we didn't "Like Ike" it was just that JFK was so young, his wife was so pretty and she was pregnant.
I truly believe that fateful day changed everything ......
It certainly was a big change for me........
Our Senior class trip consisted of going to Washingon DC, one of things we were looking forward to was visiting the white house and JFK may well have been there, instead we saw a grave and an Eternal Light, still surrounded by dirt in Arlington Cemetery, I went to Washington DC 20 years to the day that I was there first and saw the Eternal light and it was surrounded by stone, just didn't look the same.
I will never, never forget that day in my life as long as I live.... When I see it on TV now I have that same heart wrenching feeling that I felt then.
I have felt that heart ache a couple times since, when my mom died and when my husband died. It is one of the most horrible feelings you can ever feel.
You just cry until the tears just burn............