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Memories burned forever in one’s mind

Tomorrow is the sixty-first anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas.

Like Pearl Harbor for my parents’ generation, and September 11 for our sons’ and daughters’ generation (an ours, of course), you remember exactly where and when you heard the news: Jeannie Hofer’s mom Ginger told Jeannie and me on the lawn in front of Waitsburg High School when Mrs. Hofer came to pick Jeannie up...