The Call of Service: What JFK Wrought
My bellwether, my life-changing day—like that of so many others of my generation—will always be November 22, 1963. I was a third-grade student sitting in a classroom in the peaceful splendor of the Cherry Lane School in Great Neck, New York, when we heard of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The very word “assassination”—it was terrifyingly new vocabulary to an eight-year old—summoned the attention of everyone. …
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