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

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That’s impressive.

Most of my memories of that age are from family stories

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I was also born in 1956, in Mrs. Bell's second grade class when the principal came over the intercom and announced that the President had been assassinated. I remember it like it was yesterday.

There were a few instances in my childhood where the country and the world stood still that i remember well.
Was seven when the first space flight took place and everyone in the country stopped as did the world to watch and listen.
I was nine when Kennedy was shot and remember again the entire country and the world stopped.
Another was when we went to the moon. We did not have many channels in BR but it was wall to wall coverage for days. The entire world just parked in front of a tv or even radios in parts of the first world as well as the third world and held their breath at every step.

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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. Many will downvote my approach, but it works well for me. Haven't slept this great since I was an infant. There's alot to be said for hunting, fishing, gardening, and praying whenever I want...

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That^ Works for me also.

OK, I am a little older than the OP but I do recall the day John Kennedy got shot. The entire country was in shock. I recall the day of the first moon landing, 9/11, worrying about the draft, and Watergate.

Civil rights days were different from the current protests. I guess that the issues in the 60's were more clearly about right and wrong. Some of the protests today seem to be more contrived and most people have a "who really gives a damn" about them. I think that the Vietnam protests changed the country forever. Calling draftees baby killers was pretty drastic, and that same sort of attitude seems to be the normal political position that a lot of folks take today.

I am very concerned for my grandchildren, as the entitlement attitude seems to be taking over the country and I know it will be hard to change that before the country collapses in on itself.

It is, isn't it

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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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You my friend should watch the 8 part mini-series 11.22.63 by Stephen King. One of the best walks down memory road I've had in a long time. Definitely worth your time for nostalgic folks like us...

ETA: I wasn't alive on that day but came along before his brother was murdered. The 11.22.63 storyline from Stephen King is about traveling back in time to stop Oswald, so it's not about alternate theories. How messing with the past causes so many more other issues... mostly bad. Great series, even better book. Watch the series first.

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Do I think your brother remembered a newsreel when he was 6?

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I remember playing with my cousin who died before I was 7.

LBJ left office before I was 8, but I remember seeing him on TV.

I remember the house we lived in in Lafayette, and we moved away when I was 5.

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Vietnam War, Woodstock, Civil Rights movement, assassination of JFK, Watergate, mankind on the moon,





Your voting years started in the late 70s. All those historic events you remember because you read about them... jfk assassination

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I am only 4 years older than the poster. I remember Vietnam because I registered for the draft. My brother volunteered and served. I was in Mrs. Blackwell's 6th grade class when she told us JFK had been assassinated. I saw the movie Woodstock the year that it came out and a year after the actual event. I lived in the South. Civil Rights movement was very real. I went to 3 different high schools my Senior year because of mandatory desegregation. I was at my girlfriends house on July 20, 1969, the night we landed on the moon. I watched tons of tv during the Watergate hearings under Sam Ervin, Chairman of the Watergate Committee.

You are a fool. I am of the same vintage as OP. And Yes, I remember I was in 3rd grade. Mrs. Weight's class. The principal came into our class to break the news of JFK's assassination. Clear as day.

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You are a fool.

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Well he admitted that he was young so there's that. Don't you just love how people who haven't experienced what you have in life know more about life than you do?