re: Turned 63 years last week and have witnessed dramatic

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If you can't remember something as drastic as an assassination when you're seven years old that says a lot about you.

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Not to mention that everything then was family TV oriented. People weren't desensitized and disinterested due to over saturation of national stories via multiple screens per person. Bombshells were really bombshells then. Im sure when something so momentous occurred the entire family swarmed the family tv in the den and hung on every word....made a lasting impression. Im just speculating on this as I wasnt born until late 70s, but Im going to be close to bullseye Id bet. I definitely remember exactly where I was when the shuttle Challenger exploded, for instance.

OP,
Great summation of my own feelings. These are very difficult times for fair minded people who make proactive effort toward common sense analysis of ALL incoming info, doing one's best to see the issues from all viewpoints and not be at all afraid to mark a point for the opposing team where it's called for.

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Grow up

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RIPMachoMan

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Irony of all ironies considering your posts in this thread.

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At 6 (roughly) you remember that day and where you were? Genuinely? That’s impressive. Most of my memories of that age are from family stories

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I can remember watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon on television. It happened less than two weeks after I turned three years old.

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At 6 (roughly) you remember that day and where you were? Genuinely?

That’s impressive. Most of my memories of that age are from family stories

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You are a fool. Hell, I was seven when Elvis died and I remember that very vividly.

I turned 64 back in February and I can remember one evening standing out in my grandfather's front yard along with the rest of the neighborhood looking up and watching Sputnik going across the sky. That was 1957. When Kennedy was assassinated I was in Mrs. Lay's 3rd grade class when we were told to go home. The country mourned for seven days. I remember it vividly.
To be honest I wish I could turn the clock back and return to the 60's. There was a lot more respect for each other and people actually talked to one another. (No cell phones or internet) A much simpler time.

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So I guess you could say I decided to be a semi-isolationist. I still travel when I want, and to make $ to get by on... but I mostly avoid people. I find life to be much better being around my pack of dogs, focusing on my faith, and being a Watchman on this American mess from afar.

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And then you come to a public message board and read the comments by that dumb@ss machoman and realize that you made the correct decision

Thank you.

Oddly enough I cannot locate the Cuban missile crisis in the deep recesses of my memories and have tried, particularly when listening to others share their recollections.

My father-in-law served in WW II and he would share, albeit few, of those days - European theater.

Have a class reunion coming up and am looking forward to rekindling some of those days.

Take good care.

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At 6 (roughly) you remember that day and where you were? Genuinely? That’s impressive. Most of my memories of that age are from family stories

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Something that big, not uncommon at all. I was 8 when Reagan was shot and I remember it very well.

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when MLK was shot,

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I was a Nike Hercules battery commander in Florida. We went on full alert, probably as much for possible "locals retaliating against anything governmental" as anything internationally.

We had no incidents. The big thing we had were the dogs. No one wanted to mess around there they were.

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At 6 (roughly) you remember that day and where you were?

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He was 7 and a half.