Opinion Stories from November 18, 2013 (Change date)
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A dark time in our nation’s historyNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - To put it succinctly, “It was the best of times it was the worst of times.” I was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and was a senior in high school at the time. The C...
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‘Presidents don’t get shot nowadays, do they?’Nov 18, 2013 4:00 am - A small town in New Jersey, outdoor PE class on a warm November afternoon, sixth grade, 11 years old — and as we filed back into the building, one of our classmates had ...
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Sadly, many focus on JFK’s character flawsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - In the fall of 1956 I was in the Augustinian Seminary and wrote on the blackboard that JFK would be elected president in 1960, though most didn’t even know who he was. B...
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Story of JFK told to next generationNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 22, 1963, I was in first grade attending Bateman Elementary School in Chicago. I had gone to the White House six months earlier on a tour with my family. As a li...
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One goodbye to JFK isn’t enoughNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I have been to Brookline to celebrate his birth. I have been to Dallas to feel anger at his murder. I have been to Arlington to mourn his death. And I have been to his l...
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Co-workers told of news after lunch hourNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I had returned to my office early after lunch. Most others in the department were still at lunch. I received a telephone call from a girl who was in the hospital. She wa...
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Day to celebrate turned to day of mourningNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - On Nov. 22, 1963, I was a college sophomore and postulant studying to be a School Sister of Notre Dame at the motherhouse in Mequon, Wis. It was the feast day of Saint C...
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It’s been downhill ever since for our nationNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - I was in a small downstate high school science class when we got the word that the president had been shot. All classes were canceled, and everyone listened for further ...
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A scary, puzzling time for a first-graderNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The lunch bell rang, and we lined up at the door of our first-grade classroom. “Bring all your books with you. You’re all going home,” Sister Francis Marie said with a c...
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Gym teacher had to bear the bad newsNov 18, 2013 4:00 am - The day Kennedy was assisinated, I was a physical education teacher in Ocala, Fla. I taught in a unique school setup where we had all the seventh graders in the county. ...
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