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Originally Posted by spdrun
rs899: There's a difference in scale between one murder and several thousand deaths...
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He was there. You weren't.
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Plus, 9/11 was different to me since I had close family working two blocks away.
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Which has little to do with his description of the country's reaction.
I was in first grade when they announced the JFK shooting over the PA. I don't recall having a strong reaction beyond, "Wow, didn't see that coming." It was a big deal with my Irish Catholic family. Everybody was glued to the TV for his funeral. The image that sticks with me from the funeral is the riderless horse with the boots backwards in the stirrups.
There were three big assassinations in relatively short order when I was a kid - JFK, MLK, and RFK. I didn't appreciate at the time how crazy that was.