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Post by Joan on Sept 4, 2007 15:45:26 GMT -5
After thinking about where I was on 9/11, I started remembering when JFK was assasinated and what I was doing.
I was working in the City then at the RCA Building - 30 Rockefeller Plaza. A co-worker and I were just coming back from lunch when we saw crowds outside the Associated Press Building next to the RCA Building. Everyone was saying "the President was shot"! We couldn't believe it. We returned to our office after lunch only to find out a half hour later, JFK had been shot and was dead.
I remember going home that Friday night stunned. The entire weekend, I sat in front of the TV. I believe everyone did the same thing. I think I just got up to grab something to eat. Watching it was unbelievable. Saw Ruby kill Oswald right on TV. Watched the funeral and everything that went on that weekend.
I will never forget John John saluting his father when the coffin went by. That really stands out in my mind. Also, how brave Jackie was going through that ordeal. I don't think I could have behaved so well during that time if I had been her. I always admired her.
I think 9/11 and the assasination of JFK stand out the most in my mind in American History.
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Post by Lenny on Sept 4, 2007 16:39:55 GMT -5
I was at Camp LeJeune North Carolina running wire for teletype training operations when my platoon sargeant came out of the communications hut in tears to tell us that our Commander In Chief had just been assassinated. He ordered us to secure all equipment and report to the barracks for the rest of the day until further orders. Our generation sure had it's share of tragedy huh?
JFK
Bobby Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Korea
Viet Nam
Reagan Shot
Pop John Paul Shot
9/11
Gulf War 1991
War on Terror
Stop The World.....I want to Get Off
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Post by Joan on Sept 4, 2007 16:50:17 GMT -5
Lenny.......................were you in the Viet Nam War? My husband was a Marine and went to Viet Nam for a year - 1966. He had been stationed at Camp Pendleton in California.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 17:19:17 GMT -5
Pretty much the same scenario that weekend at our house..went to Mass Sunday morning but Was back home when Jack Ruby shot Oswald in the garage.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 17:20:53 GMT -5
Lenny- I know this board is famous for being able to say what you want, but if you keep it up with the Devil Rays stuff, I will tell everybody that you really grew up in Brooklyn and have no Bronx roots!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 17:22:06 GMT -5
Lenny, I suspect that picture is the closest you have ever been to the inside of Tropicana Field!  |
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Post by Lenny on Sept 4, 2007 17:37:29 GMT -5
You got that right Mike. I've driven passed Tropicana Field many times but have never been to a game in my life. B O O R I N G !
Never had any interest in sports of any kind although as a kid I did play curb ball on Bathgate & 178th st and stickball.
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Post by Lenny on Sept 4, 2007 17:38:53 GMT -5
Joan.....I was in Viet Nam 1964-1965.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 17:41:01 GMT -5
You got that right Mike. I've driven past Torpicana Field many times but have never been to a game in my life. B O O R I N G ! Never had any interest in sports of any kind although as a kid I did play curb ball on Bathgate & 178th st and stickball. Lenny, all kidding aside....try it, you'll like it! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 17:48:23 GMT -5
i was in manhattan working -- was on 8th ave and 38 or 39 st and i heard it near the newstand that was on the corner
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2007 18:51:31 GMT -5
Once again I was in my house and cleaning up and had the TV on watching the President in Dallas when it all happened. My neighbor was running around our development crying and telling everyone about this terrible news.
I also saw Ruby shoot Oswald.
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Post by Preacher Mike on Sept 4, 2007 19:02:49 GMT -5
I was in Germany with a tank unit training near the Fulder Gap on the boarder. They got us up to load up on the tanks and Wait for orders to come through. We waited for three days before we got the order to stand down. The Germany armies units were right there with us. We all knew we would be at war, thank God we were not.
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Post by Fran Gyomory on Sept 4, 2007 19:14:05 GMT -5
I was a teletype operator for P. Lorrillard Company in NY. It came across the teletype and my world stopped when everyone elses's did. The girls went into the file room and cried, me along with them. It wasn't that it was JFK, it was that our PRESIDENT could be murdered!
I remember being glued to the television that weekend and going to work on Monday only to be met in the lobby of the Lorillard Building by the VP of the company and being told to go home, it was a paid day off for the day of mourning.
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Post by Joan on Sept 4, 2007 19:14:06 GMT -5
Lenny.....................thank God, you came home too!!!
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