Piddingworth Greg Benton |
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| 'Piddingworth...where St. George's Cross is not yet banned.' --Mark Steyn |
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| A DEFINING MOMENT IN HISTORY |
| It was forty-four years ago yet the memory remains fresh to many of us who lived through those dramatic days following the assassination of President John Kennedy. It seems everyone remembers precisely where they were when they heard the news. I was in high school in a mathematics class and sitting by the window. Looking at the unfolding television coverage, we inevitably felt that we were in some way a part of the history that was changing the course of the future. The images and sounds remain haunting and emotional. The President of the United States, at age 46, was dead and with him, the mythological 'innocence' of the post-war decade-the '50s. For many, the 'hope' that they embraced was lost. Within mere months, the world 'exploded' with a cacophany in rapid succession of noise, music, violence, war, creativity and change. All those years now past. |