Some Anniversaries Just Plain Suck

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MARCH 27, 2012 2:55PM

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So much venom and hate going on today. I may be showing my age but next week will mark the 44th anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.. The Summer that follwed this event was a tragedy for our entire nation and right now it seems that no one even remembers why it was such a tragedy.

Not long after the horror in Memphis we witnessed another tragedy on live TV, well we didn't see it but we heard the gunfire and we knew what had happened before even an ambulance arrived on the scene. Bobby Kennedy was far from perfect but he actually gave a damn about what poor people had to deal with, he hated racism and after watching the same news that the rest of us did he saw nothing but disaster in Vietnam.

The events of the last month bring to me the memory of the possibilities we lost when those men were gunned down. Take a minute, listen to this and think about what kind of world we want to leave our kids and their kids. Peace.

This one is a bit long but listen closely at the 5:55 minute mark for three sharp pops. Those are the gunshots that ended Bobby Kennedy's life

'nuff sed?

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oh such a powerful reminder!!! thank you!

zanelle

March 27, 2012 03:20 PM

...like it was yesterday. And just as painful.

Lezlie

L in the Southeast

March 27, 2012 04:00 PM

Why do people not remember??? People laugh at me for sending people hugs.. ya know what.. maybe if we had more of it the world would not be such a bad place.
Thanks for this
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Linda Seccaspina

March 27, 2012 04:06 PM

We haven't learned a lot, have we?

jlsathre

March 27, 2012 04:32 PM

No wonder so many of my generation--1965 high school grad--tried so hard to change the world and came out of it with a cynical view of how the world works. I still choke up and fight back tears when I think of those sacrificed.

beauty1947

March 27, 2012 04:35 PM

yeah, that Dion song has always haunted--especially since he had to re-do it after Bobby was asassinated.

Walter Blevins

March 27, 2012 05:33 PM

I still remember....Why don't we ever learn?

Lunchlady 2

March 27, 2012 06:10 PM

Well apparently not 'nuff sed' 'cause it seems we keep having to say it :(. You have however said it - once more and with feeling - very well (as is your usual :).

Rated for looped reels.

Seer

March 27, 2012 06:15 PM

I came back to read the comments, if any, and found my own stupid eyes welling as I listened to the Kennedy assassination. I was there for the event via live television even though it was well after midnight. I sat there stunned as the place went mad. We have been under the thumb of the right wing pretty much ever since. Thanks all, maybe I will be back when I get hold of my emotions.