Kathleen Mary 's posts with tag: assassination
I thought I would write just a word about John F. Kennedy - this is the anniversary of his assassination in Dallas in 1963 - another day that will live in infamy as long as there is an United States. I know my generation won't forget it.
Historically, I am not sure what to think about Kennedy, now. I am a republican/libertarian but I don't see him in the same light as I see a Clinton - either of them - or a Pelosi or any of the modern liberals. They are nearly communists. They are certainly socialists. J.F.K. was neither and was the sworn enemy of communism. I would not fear living in an America run by J.F. K.
I believe he was a brave, honest man - not a great president, but a very good one, he did his best in the dark days of both his personal and professional lives, and that is the most any of us can give or do - our very best.
I admired him as a young girl of 12. My parents just about wept for joy because he was the first Catholic president, something very important to both of them, devote Catholics till death, as they both were. I know now that he cheated on his wife. (What is about democratic presidents and their .... ah... ah... pants?) and that he nearly brought us to the brink of World War III - though, I might defend him, saying that it was Russia's attempt to arm Cuba with missiles that really brought us to that terrible abyss.
Its just, well, as I reading the news, I noticed the date and well, I needed to say SOMETHING.
He was a young man. I don't believe the conspiracy nuts, they are mostly people with far too much time on their hands - I don't have that kind of personality and I don't think it really matters any more, either, the man is dead. Let us mourn his loss, learn from his life and honor his memory. One man, one gun, 2 shots. Its all that takes to kill any man, even a great man and leader.
I was in class this day 44 years ago. I must have been in the 6th grade - not sure about that. Monsignor Vogt entered the class room late that day - it was a Friday, please, remember... He announced the president was shot. He said the 3 other men had been shot and a police officer in Dallas TX. He left. I can't remember what happened, what the teacher said, what we did, walking home... etc. We were dismissed for the day. I went home and turned on the T.V. - for the next few days we watched, wept and with the rest of America tried to understand and comprehend what had happened. I was watching T.V. with my mom when Oswald was shot before God and the cameras of the national news organizations. We had been watching the burial, also.
I shouted - and the deed was done, already.
I still think of the day Kennedy was shot with deep tears that never seem to completely dry up. I think, with 9/11 it was the greatest shock of my life as an American... 9/11 is more horrific but the Kennedy assassination was more - personal. I have lost family members and nearly died once or twice, myself - but the social shocks that millions suffer with me seem far worse.
Politics will only go far, dear people. I can't hate Kennedy like liberals hate Bush. I don't hate Clinton, or the Clintons, either -- but I do think J.F.K. was a greater man than either of the Clintons, though - there was a quality which made him stand out, a nobility of spirit, perhaps. He wasn't perfect but none of us are... he wasn't sordid, either and he didn't drag the country or his wife and family through slime. He was never a joke. I think he respected himself, the office of president and his wife more than Bill Clinton ever did any of those things --- and I think that is why he is now nearly mythic in our imaginations and why I wish to remember him.
I want to remind you today to remember him, also.
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