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Borogove

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15. I remember that day so vividly.

Fri Nov 22, 2024, 10:46 AM

Nov 2024

I was 9 and in 4th grade. My teacher was also the elementary school principal and had his office right behind the classroom. His office phone rang and he excused himself to go answer it. After a brief period of time, he announced over the PA system that the president had been shot. He then came back to the classroom with tears flowing down his cheeks.

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It is November 22. [View all] TNNurse Nov 2024 OP

I was 9 dweller Nov 2024 #1

There was a post yesterday asking for yorkster Nov 2024 #2

Here is a recent DU post. John1956PA Nov 2024 #3

There's a very interesting thread in the Lounge Mike 03 Nov 2024 #4

I had this up earlier in the week. MrWowWow Nov 2024 #6

Here is the thread in the lounge: John1956PA Nov 2024 #8

Here you go MrWowWow Nov 2024 #5

Etched in my memory... 2naSalit Nov 2024 #7

It's my Dad's 107th birthday today... MiHale Nov 2024 #9

I was in kindergarten LSparkle Nov 2024 #10

I posted a remembrance this morning Marthe48 Nov 2024 #11

I never saw anyone cry, and that night our high school played its regular football game. Ron Green Nov 2024 #12

The 24th was also something. Oswald shot on live TV NoRethugFriends Nov 2024 #52

I was only an infant but I have felt its effects my whole life. Javaman Nov 2024 #13

Amen to that, Javaman. BComplex Nov 2024 #35

I was a Freshman in college. My world changed that day. SharonAnn Nov 2024 #14

I remember that day so vividly. Borogove Nov 2024 #15

The event that initiated our sad decline as a nation Zorro Nov 2024 #16

Yes bdamomma Nov 2024 #17

And it's a Friday, as well. DFW Nov 2024 #18

Oh, wow soandso Nov 2024 #44

I'm sure I met him at one point or another DFW Nov 2024 #47

Pic soandso Nov 2024 #48

It would have been over 60 years ago DFW Nov 2024 #53

i was 8. barbtries Nov 2024 #19

I was 7 Freddie Nov 2024 #26

yes. barbtries Nov 2024 #30

Same soandso Nov 2024 #45

I was 19 and on leave from the military. Ping Tung Nov 2024 #20

I was an 11-year-old 6th grader in Austin. kch22 Nov 2024 #21

I was in Catholic elementary school at the time Farmer-Rick Nov 2024 #22

High school library WmChris Nov 2024 #23

Thank you for remembering. Kid Berwyn Nov 2024 #24

I was in kindergarten AmBlue Nov 2024 #25

I was six months old and I don't remember it, of course SpankMe Nov 2024 #27

I was 14, too. 5th period English class. japple Nov 2024 #28

It was Latin class for me. I remember Mrs. Beard telling us TNNurse Nov 2024 #42

I was in 7th grade and learned about it as the school day was ending. TheRickles Nov 2024 #29

Fifth Grade classroom... PCIntern Nov 2024 #31

I hated my 4th grade teacher. But after she was called out of our classroom, then returned... electric_blue68 Nov 2024 #40

I was 16. OLDMDDEM Nov 2024 #32

I was 12 ... heard it on the radio in our 1 room school house NotHardly Nov 2024 #33

I wasn't born yet, johnnyfins Nov 2024 #34

What a difference a day made! 3825-87867 Nov 2024 #36

I was in grade 10 geometry class leftyladyfrommo Nov 2024 #37

Sorrow will have it's due. Prairie_Seagull Nov 2024 #38

61 years ago today... alterfurz Nov 2024 #39

I was 3 Vegan4life Nov 2024 #41

It's my first memory: my mother throwing a laundry basket downstairs and saying, Scrivener7 Nov 2024 #43

I wouldn't be born for two years, 11 months and 14 days. Xavier Breath Nov 2024 #46

I don't have any memory Meowmee Nov 2024 #49

My second birthday. Mom stopped making my cake as soon as she heard the news. n/t OnlinePoker Nov 2024 #50

Me too. In Miss Weiser's 10th grade English class NoRethugFriends Nov 2024 #51