Comments on: Martin, Bobby and John http://southernmaledemocrat.com/2008/04/19/martin-bobby-and-john/ (There are more of us than you think...) Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:40:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Sammy Kent http://southernmaledemocrat.com/2008/04/19/martin-bobby-and-john/#comment-193 Sammy Kent Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:44:32 +0000 http://southernmaledemocrat.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-193 I'm not sure many people remember very much about their life's fifth year, but to this day my most vivid memory is, at the age of five years and six months hearing the words "President Kennedy is dead." over the car radio, and my mother's reaction to it. I can take you to the very spot the car was travelling on Fleming Avenue in Marion when the news broke. Jack Kennedy was my childhood hero. We share the same birthday, May 29th. I'm a Republican now, but he remains, in my mind the second greatest President of my lifetime....and until Ronald Reagan he was the greatest. When I won the NC High School public speaking championship in the Declamation division (historical speech from memory without notes), I gave Jack Kennedy's Inaugural Address. I can still recite most of it today. Neither time, nor partisanship, nor his political mistakes, nor the revelations of his personal indescretions will ever diminish the very high regard I have for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I’m not sure many people remember very much about their life’s fifth year, but to this day my most vivid memory is, at the age of five years and six months hearing the words “President Kennedy is dead.” over the car radio, and my mother’s reaction to it. I can take you to the very spot the car was travelling on Fleming Avenue in Marion when the news broke.

Jack Kennedy was my childhood hero. We share the same birthday, May 29th. I’m a Republican now, but he remains, in my mind the second greatest President of my lifetime….and until Ronald Reagan he was the greatest. When I won the NC High School public speaking championship in the Declamation division (historical speech from memory without notes), I gave Jack Kennedy’s Inaugural Address. I can still recite most of it today.

Neither time, nor partisanship, nor his political mistakes, nor the revelations of his personal indescretions will ever diminish the very high regard I have for President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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