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USMC 2571
11-22-17, 05:15 AM
Today is the anniversary of the JFK assassination. November 22, 1963. Everyone who is of age remembers what he or she was doing when that happened.
What about you folks?
I was on the drill field at Parris Island when the DIs made the announcement. Had been there about 3 weeks.
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Mongoose
11-22-17, 07:35 AM
I was in High School when they announced it over the loud speakers. Then we all stood in prayer......

Old Marine
11-22-17, 08:20 AM
I was a Sgt. working in the 1st Marine Division Ordinance Office,Building 14-B-10, Camp Pendleton.

gkmoz
11-22-17, 08:27 AM
I had just left the H.S. cafeteria and noticed teachers and female students crying, asked what was going on and was told about him being shot.

Zulu 36
11-22-17, 10:07 AM
I was in 5th grade at a Catholic school in Detroit listening to a lecture from the Monseigneur when Mother Superior announced the news over the PA. The Monseigneur went absolutely white (scaring the crap out of the Sister who thought he was going to pass out), led a brief prayer, and left. Turned out earlier in his career as a priest, he had been assigned to the Kennedy family's parish and he knew the family, including JFK, well.

USMC 2571
11-22-17, 11:19 AM
It was a sad and shocking day, even though there had been 3 prior presidents assassinated, it had been a long time since that happened. No one was even remotely "prepared" for 11-22-63.

USMC 2571
11-22-17, 11:26 AM
(The previous assassination of a president happened 62 years before that day in 1963.)

FoxtrotOscar
11-22-17, 03:11 PM
I was just returning from a swim meet in school when we heard about it, spent the rest of the day watching the events unfold on tv at school...

Mongoose
11-22-17, 03:38 PM
Me and my best friend skipped school the next Friday and drove to Dallas (80 miles away), to see in person where it took place. You couldn't get close to the spot, because they still had it sealed off.

silverdollar
11-23-17, 04:54 AM
I was at anacostia NAS aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia .

USMC 2571
11-23-17, 06:43 AM
George, I always thought you were one of the folks helping to build the Ark.

Mongoose
11-23-17, 07:34 AM
Dave.......George was Noah's foreman

radio relay
11-23-17, 07:46 AM
When JFK was killed, I was in 8th grade algebra2 at Ft Riley Jr High, at Fort Riley, Kansas. The principal announced on the intercom that classes were cancelled, and we were sent home. The entire base was on alert. My Dad was a Sergeant Major with the 1st Infantry Division, and did come not home for several days. Watched the funeral on black and white TV.
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RFK was killed when I was in boot camp. Our meanest Drill Instructor (SSgt Sigmon) called the platoon onto the "company street" in front of the quonsets and told us. It was the only time he seemed like a normal human being.

I hope President Trump finally gets the truth out!!!!

USMC 2571
11-23-17, 12:39 PM
Amazing---those really strong impressions we remember, so long ago. And we can't even tell what we did three weeks ago.

Mongoose
11-23-17, 03:28 PM
Dave.....three weeks ago, I was trying to remember what I did the previous three weeks.

Zulu 36
11-23-17, 03:33 PM
I can't even remember if I pooped in the last three weeks or not. :sick:

m14ed
11-23-17, 05:12 PM
Blah blah-

then there was the assassination of his brother
Robert-many years later .........

Don't you sorta wish they had started with
BROTHER TEDDY /
youngest first....

waitress sandwich-
Teddy Knew how to live,
didn't he..................
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MaryJoeKopeckniWho

Heybut-
we got two wars out of that deal-
One on Vietnam
and One on poverty.........

FistFu68
11-25-17, 09:59 AM
I was 13 at the time my father was a career Soldier never knew about politics when President Kennedy took that headshot it really pi$$ed my young a$$ oFF !