November 21-23

The weather has turned sharply colder the last few days, I doubt anybody is heartbroken that street hockey season is over. Morning errand runs were about all that happened on Thursday and Friday, the evenings were spent in the warmth and comfort of home. Friday was the 50th anniversary of a horrible day in American history, the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. There were a number of documentary retrospectives about it on TV. It's been said that anyone who was alive then remembers where they were when they heard the news, I was six years old in 1963 and I remember it as well. I was in the second grade, we were in class and the school principal came on the intercom to tell us he had heard on radio that President Kennedy had been shot. He put the microphone by the radio so we could hear the report as it aired. Over the next few days the aftermath was all that was on television from morning sign-on until late-night sign-off (back in the days when TV stations actually left the air overnight). At my age then I didn't fully understand everything but I knew that something truly terrible had happened. There has always been speculation about what happened that day in Dallas, fifty years later it is still debated and I imagine it will still be talked about in 2063. Saturday was another lunch day for me and Jenny, in the evening I was at the Lancaster Ice Rink. Millersville hosted Rutgers (the well-known university from New Jersey) in what was billed as a Salute To The Troops, a current serviceman and MU graduate dropped the ceremonial first puck. MU fell behind 3-0, rallied to get within one but ultimately lost 4-2. Take care, thanks for reading.