Nov 222019
It’s another busy day, here in the CatBox and I’m rushing to finish before my cardiologist appointment. Congrats Pat. TGIF Hugs to all!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:31 (average 4:38). To do it, click here. How dis you do?
Cartoon:
Short Take:
From YouTube (a blast from the past, as reminded by a friend): Gordon Lightfoot Sundown
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
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Cartoon: Gawd, it’s been 56 years ago today that this happened. I was in grade school, and the Mother Superior got on the intercom, and announced the news of JFK’s death. She came back into the classroom crying. So horribly sad. I didn’t understand, but knew that it was very, very serious.
Some things that happen in the course of one’s life stands out. This is one of them.
I have been to Arlington Cemetery several times, and always go to the President’s grave, and also stand at attention at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier too. Rain, sleet, snow or hail, I always make a point of stopping and visiting when driving through. A solemn and sacred land, etched with history. I have never left there with a dry eye either. May he rest in Eternal Peace.
Here is his funeral of November 25th 1963, it’s 43 minutes long. Video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJQkn6zUvM&feature=emb_logo
Thanks, Tom…it was touch & go there for a while !! Hope that your appointment goes well, to & fro, and that you can rest when you get home. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
The slaying of President Kennedy is one of those events that sticks in the mind so people remember where they were and what they were doing when they first got the news. Or, at least they think they do. Somebody did a study related to people’s memories of the Challenger tragedy. It’s worth perusing.
Hugs!!
4:04 Enjoy the fishing.
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Cartoon – Yes. I remember. C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley also both died that day, both of natural causes, but both men were notable and widely known. I didn’t know for years about either of them – the death of Kennedy dominated the media and the public mind so much there was no room for anything else.
Past – I remember this one too.
2:32 Looks like a lovely place to stay.
Cartoon: I have no recollection of the event itself – I was nearly seven, we didn’t have TV yet and living in a country far away from the US – but I do vividly remember my mother getting terribly upset after hearing of it on the radio. All memories of that horrible day have been built up on information gathered by my brain later in in my life.
BFTP: Thanks, TomCat.
Cartoon: I too was in grade school when this dreadful slaying happened. I remember watching it shown on the news with my parents and my brother. It certainly was a day we wish never happened.
BFTP: Great tune.
Hope everything went well at your cardiologist appointment.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Cartoon — Even this Canuck Sasquatch remembers the day down to where I was, what I was wearing and my utter shock. I was in school (grade 6) when the assassination was announced by the teacher (no PA system in our small school). I was wearing a blue jumper and blouse. We just sat in our seats absolutely stunned. For us, we could not believe that someone would murder another person, especially the president of the US. Guns were not a part of our culture then and now like they are in the US. In the days following, emotions were all over the place. I remember watching the funeral cortège and seeing 3 years old John John salute his father’s casket as it passed by. Talk about tears!
YouTube — Your friend has excellent tastes, not only in music but also in friends Puddy Tat! Lightfoot was and is one of, if not my all time favourite. Thanks for the memories. I was able to sing along I know it so well. I guess I get nostalgic sometimes because I hear the phrase “sneaking ’round my backstairs” quite often.
Here is another one that I really liked and to which I was able to sing along.
If you could read my mind
And another one The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, is about an American freighter (the largest freighter on the Great Lakes) which sank in Lake Superior on 10 November 1975.
Sorry, they did not want to imbed for me but I have set them to open on a new page.
I hope your appointment went without a hitch.
Hope your “ticker” doc appointment went well.
I was a sophomore in HS when JFK’s assassination was announced over the PA system. It was my English class and our teacher was an All-State basketball player when he was in high school – big, brawny guy. It’s indelibly etched in my mind – he just put his head down on the desk and openly wept.
Here’s my list of those seminal “Where Were You When …” moments. (Not necessarily chronological) I’d be interested in what you guys would add – or delete:
JFK assassination
Bobby Kennedy & Dr. Martin Luther King assassinations
First man on the moon
Nixon Resigns
Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion
OJ Simpson Bronco Chase
Columbine HS Massacre
9/11 attacks 2001
Pres. Obama Elected
Boy, Nameless, you have far more memories than I do. Of course I remember all of those events, but the only two of which I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing are the two when where I was and what I was doing were completely outside my normal routines/the normal progress of my life. (Some people say they also remember what they were wearing – I don’t, for either of them.
When Kennedy was shot, I was a sophomore in college, and ailing physically due to a gas leak (I didn’t find out that was the cause until Christmas, or I would have done things differently.) Not feeling good, I had stayed home (with the gas leak) and was work*ing on designing and silk screening my own Christmas cards.
On 9/11, I was employed by USAA, but that day was my day off so I was sleeping in. The phone woke me and it was a friend from the military who IIRC just said “Go turn on the TV right now!” and hung up. I turned on the TV in time to see the second tower go. I called USAA’s HR and told them if anyone had relatives there and wanted to go home, I could come in and cover for one person anyway. I was declined.
‘Toon: I heard about it while in college, after Dr. Varma’s economics class let out. I was coming down in the elevator when I first heard about it, and we listened to the newscast from someone’s convertible parked outside the main building. The book, “Rush to Judgement,” was written by Mark Lane, who had previously graduated from Long Island University, in Brooklyn, himself.
As I recall, I had watched his inauguration from a TV set in the window of 666 Fifth Ave., in NYC. Yes, Nameless, it was a world changing horrid thing.
TC, I am also hoping that your cardio. visit went well.
Thanks and tired hugs to all.