Real life thread

[bd popeye]

No politics please, discuss your memories of that day if you respond to this post.....

November 22nd 1963...Most of the members of this forum were not born yet.

I remember that day. It was a Friday. Thanksgiving was near at hand..

I was 10 years old. I was in the fifth grade at South Avondale Elementary School in Cincinnati. It was warm that day for November..I checked and the high was 68F. After lunch at school we all lined up to go back inside and it seemed the teachers were anxious to get us back in class. I remember our math teacher Mr Jackson told us that Pres Kennedy had been shot and turned on our Tv in the classroom. We heard Walter Cronkite voice but did not see him until he announced JFK was dead at the hand of an assassin. In the classroom next to ours a teacher, Mrs Keller, screamed and fainted. She was taken to the hospital. She never returned to school. School did not resume until after the Thanksgiving Holiday.

After the death announcement school was dismissed..I walked home. On the corner of Reading Road and Forrest AV a news person was hawking the Cincinnati Post-Times Star.. he was shouting

"Pooossst Timesss Pap-pur!!..President assassinated in Texas..Extrrey! Extrey! Read all about it President is dead..Pooossst Timesss Pap-pur' Over and over again. The Irony is he was standing in front of a Statue of Pres. Abraham Lincoln.

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I solemnly walked home..things were in a daze. When I reached my home my stepmom was going out to visit my sister in Childrens hospital. She had had her transistor radio with her so she could get the latest news.. She asked did I hear about Pres Kennedy. I told her yes...

The next three days all that was on Tv was news about the assassination of JFK. His funeral was a site to behold. I will never forget that black caisson with his coffin riding atop it. Never ever...That was a long time ago in a World so different than today's..

...in another forum a member posted this..

To be honest the world didn't seem the same afterward. All had changed. JFK, despite his character flaws was so charismatic that everyone loved him and Jackie. I still remember the televised White House tour hosted by Jackie....that was so cool.

100% truth. Amen.

 

[Jeff Head]

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I was 7 years old the day President John F. Kennedy was killed. We lived in Dallas, on the far north side of town, right at the edge of the city. I was in 1st grade. What I remember is that the entire school was put into the equivalent of "lock down" in the early 1960s. We were all gathered into the auditorium, told that school was being let out early, and we waited for our parents to come nad get us.

My Mom came and got me and she was clearly worried. I remember that.

My Dad came home early from work that day. He was a World War II combat vet and he was angry. He and my Mom did not agree with many JFK policies and voted against him, but in that day all of that was set aside. My Dad was fighting mad that anyone would kill a sitting President of the United States and he wanted the guilty to pay.

As I grew older I came to understand and respect my parents actions that day.

Whatever else you may say about JFK, he had fought bravely for his country during the war and everyone knew it. He was an individual that was very well off, and yet went into harm's way there in the Pacific. My Dad had shared that type of experience with him. JFK on PT boats, my Dad on an LCI landing Marines on hostile beaches.

It was also my littlebrother's 4th birthday. Our celebration for him that evening was pretty muted...it was one of the first times I remember my parents being "glued" to the TV and radios.

Fifty years have come and gone...but the impact and seriousness of that day remains. Anyone who was alve in the US and old enough to remember...will likely never forget it. Like 911. It was like Pearl Harbor day for my parents. Riveting, stunning, and very tragic.

 

[B.I.B.]

Two New Zealand fishing boats brave the incredibly rough and dangerous seas of New Zealands Gray River bar at full flood stage. Incredible video.

It would take more than that to get a bunch of Southern fisherman excited Jeff as they breed them tough down thar.The west coast of the South Island is one of the wettest regions in Nz with barely a day going past without a drop of rain somewhere so getting caught with flooded river going out would not be a new experience for long time fishermen, although a huge storm in the Pacific Ocean causing a wave blast might have been the difference.

I guess I would be stating the obvious that the skippers of both boats rode the waves correctly although at one stage one of the boats was poised dangerously sideways.

In case anyone was wondering, there's no regulations preventing boats from crossing in such conditions.However there is a flashing blue light positioned at the breakwater to warnof extremely hazardous conditions and that only the most skilful skipper should make any attempt.

No doubt both skippers would have a story to tell over a few cold beers in the years to come.

 

[B.I.B.]

I ate this for lunch and dinner today! still got some left.. Don't tell my cardiologist!
It's a 14 oz Angus cheeseburger with fried egg, pineapple, onions, BLT jalepeno, with a GIANT side of cheese fries and banana pepper soaked in A1 sauce, ketchup and coleslaw!!!

All I needed was a milkshake and a stogie and I'm sure I would've violated more than a few sins in the good book.

I think I was one bite away from a self induce cardiac arrest

OMG. that's revolting.

I recall reading an article as to the trouble Mcdonalds would take in their advertisements to make it look like their food was prepared by God when actually the food that gets handed over the counter by them and other fast food outlets looks as if someone has gone and sat on it.

And that's what must have happened to yours.

 

[Equation]

OMG. that's revolting.

Say Whaaat?....lol....that looks delicious to me.

 

[Equation]

A couple years back, my sister and her husband came to visit us from AUS. My brother-in-law has been bragging about his tennis skills for ages. Since I also play tennis, we decided to have a match. And I intentionally picked 4pm on a sunny Summer day. The time is still not perfect to my satisfaction because it was only in June (not hot enough), but the temp still got up to 104 oF and 99% humidity. The poor guy walked out onto the court and played only 5 minutes and could not even breathe any more. Just think about 4pm on a sunny day in August, I could have killed him if I wanted to

OMG...I bet it felt like "Two-a-days" (two practices on one day in American football term) in Texas for him.

 

[solarz]

Say Whaaat?....lol....that looks delicious to me.

Nah, it looks revolting on that pic. But I'm sure it looks delicious in person. LOL

A couple years back, my sister and her husband came to visit us from AUS. My brother-in-law has been bragging about his tennis skills for ages. Since I also play tennis, we decided to have a match. And I intentionally picked 4pm on a sunny Summer day. The time is still not perfect to my satisfaction because it was only in June (not hot enough), but the temp still got up to 104 oF and 99% humidity. The poor guy walked out onto the court and played only 5 minutes and could not even breathe any more. Just think about 4pm on a sunny day in August, I could have killed him if I wanted to

What? 40C and 99% humidity? I would not even go outside at those conditions. What are you, adapted to living in a permanent sauna?

 

[Equation]

That's Houston weather for ya in the summer. Heck even at night time it can get 30C with 90% humidity.

 

[vesicles]

Nah, it looks revolting on that pic. But I'm sure it looks delicious in person. LOL



What? 40C and 99% humidity? I would not even go outside at those conditions. What are you, adapted to living in a permanent sauna?

Yes, it's extremely uncomfortable when you first encounter this kind of weather. I do remember how I felt when I first came to Texas. I thought I was having an asthma attack or a heart attack when I first stepped outside of IAH when my dad came to pick me up. And that was at midnight in June. You get the picture. But you will get used to it

About the two-a-days, I think my brother-in-law would rather have the two-a-days than staying one more minute outside in the sun. He said his head was spinning and he was about to throw up, but I think he looked like he was about to pass out...

 

[vesicles]

What is even better than outside in the Texas summer is inside of a car in the Texas summer. It is exactly a sauna. It can get up to 130-140 oF in a car on a hot day in the summer. You simply cannot keep stuff in the car if you still want them. One time in college, I had a plastic cassette case in my car. I made a mistake of parking my car in a parking lot completely exposed to the sun. When I came back to the car 2 hours later, the square cassette case all melted into a ball...