Re: Anybody here, see my old friend John ?
I was in 5th grade and coming back to class from the lavatory when another class mate told me about President Kennedy being shot. I walked into my class and spoke quietly to a kid named Craig Rifle( really) where upon he called me a liar real loud disrupting the class. The teacher asked what was going on and when Craig told her what I'd said, she took me by the ear out into the hall to square away my lying. After a trip to the principals office and her discovery that I was in fact telling the truth, we returned to the class room where she told my class mates what had happened. We spent the rest of the day watching the closed circuit T.V. in the room. The teacher never apologized to me for dragging me out into the hall by my ear. I'll never forget that day or the events following.
there wasn't a kid in the neighborhood that was outside playing for days afterwards.
Life did change.
Walt
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