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Originally Posted by Yorio
I was in Okinawa going to the Stars and Stripes office from a hotel in Naha. As I caught a taxi, the driver told me that JFK was dead. I shook hand with him at the University of Illinois rally before he became president. There was a big talk that if JFK became president, Pope will run the U.S. Did you believe it? Many did.
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Like Gracie, we have voted for both parties over time......
However, the city we came from in New Jersey was definitely IN LOVE with J.F.K., Jackie and all the Kennedy clan.......back in the early '60s.
We knew no different..............
It wasn't until my husband enlisted in the Army Reserves and was sent for basic training to Fort Knox, Kentucky (where he subsequently went every summer as a drill sargeant in the tanks division) that it dawned upon him that people from other parts of our nation WERE NOT in favor of the Kennedy family at all.............just the opposite. At age 18, it was his first time out of his neighborhood, so to speak.
We both graduated high school at a young 17, having skipped a grade.
Met at our high school senior picnic.......engaged at 19, married at 20, children at 22 and 25.......seems like a long time ago now.
However, those days are not only etched in HISTORY, but in our minds.
All of the assassinations...........