Friday, November 22, 2013

You'll forgive me …

if I use today's post as an opportunity to pay tribute to President Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of his death.

America changed that day. We trusted government less and turned our televisions on. We who were young when it happened will not forget where we were when we heard the news. President Kennedy's assassination was our generation's 9/11. He had his faults, as humans do. But he gave us hope.

As humans do.

Our most basic common link 

is that we all inhabit this planet.

We all breathe the same air.

We all cherish our children's future.

And we are all mortal.

~ John F. Kennedy

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