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Showing Original Post only (View all)When you see today's date on a calendar or printed or online [View all]
and you do not stop and pause for a moment, I just cannot understand.
If you are too young to remember, it would be good for you to learn why we remember. I was 14, I had already lost my father and grandfathers, so I knew what that meant to those children and to the country as well.
I do not mind admitting, that I cried while typing this.
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The victors write history and determine what is in the History books...well, Texas School Board too
Tommymac
Nov 2021
#38
I couldn't think up a more stereotypical response if I sat down for an hour and tried.
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2021
#39
I am not sure how the Viking raid influenced my life. Or of very many Americans,
TNNurse
Nov 2021
#81
I was very, very young, but it's the first thing I thought about when I noticed the date. nt
BlackSkimmer
Nov 2021
#8
My son was four when he saw the live news reports of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.
yardwork
Nov 2021
#111
All my classmates were in the hallways, going to their lockers at the end of the day at Jr. High
TheRickles
Nov 2021
#27
I remember who told me....It was a guy known to lie and tell stories about everything...
Stuart G
Nov 2021
#34
I was in the Band room. We were practicing for the Thanksgiving Day football game.
Fla Dem
Nov 2021
#36
I was in school, tenth grade I believe, and they announced it over the PA system to the classes.
demigoddess
Nov 2021
#44
I was too shocked to cry that day (age 11) but during the funeral, when John John saluted...
FailureToCommunicate
Nov 2021
#92