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izmeinaYou definitely know you are getting old when you find it harder and harder to get answers to the question
"Where were you when JFK was assassinated?"
I'm also one of those pesky people who was not around at the time but now we are most certainly in the majority.
The "Where were you when...." question moved on to the Apollo moon landing, the Yom Kippur war,the fall of the Berlin Wall, Princess Di's death in a car crash,
the attack on the Twin Towers in New York and probably also the Hamas massacre on 7th October.
Billy Joel even wrote a song ticking most of those boxes.
For most of my childhood, the Kennedy assassination was a giant signpost and the major magnet for conspiracy theories.
In hindsight, such speculation seems almost so sweet and innocent compared to the horrors that have happened since.
I remember the 50th anniversary vividly.
Like the original 1963 event, it too was on a Friday.
After work, I spent a few hours at a write in for Nanowrimo and at some point one of my characters - a petty politician with delusions of grandeur took to channeling some of the more famous Kennedy speeches.
The conspiracy theorists had their moment in the spotlight before the anniversary fuss faded away.
There are much bigger fish for them to fry these days.
It will be weird to watch as the other anniversaries turn up in the spotlight and how the passing of time changes each one.
These days even the Berlin Wall and Tienamin Square are almost ancient history.
(I'm still not back on the Big Mac since it's not a good idea in the middle of a heat wave. But at some point I will catch up and maybe even do a bit of a squiggling blitz)
"Where were you when JFK was assassinated?"
I'm also one of those pesky people who was not around at the time but now we are most certainly in the majority.
The "Where were you when...." question moved on to the Apollo moon landing, the Yom Kippur war,the fall of the Berlin Wall, Princess Di's death in a car crash,
the attack on the Twin Towers in New York and probably also the Hamas massacre on 7th October.
Billy Joel even wrote a song ticking most of those boxes.
For most of my childhood, the Kennedy assassination was a giant signpost and the major magnet for conspiracy theories.
In hindsight, such speculation seems almost so sweet and innocent compared to the horrors that have happened since.
I remember the 50th anniversary vividly.
Like the original 1963 event, it too was on a Friday.
After work, I spent a few hours at a write in for Nanowrimo and at some point one of my characters - a petty politician with delusions of grandeur took to channeling some of the more famous Kennedy speeches.
The conspiracy theorists had their moment in the spotlight before the anniversary fuss faded away.
There are much bigger fish for them to fry these days.
It will be weird to watch as the other anniversaries turn up in the spotlight and how the passing of time changes each one.
These days even the Berlin Wall and Tienamin Square are almost ancient history.
(I'm still not back on the Big Mac since it's not a good idea in the middle of a heat wave. But at some point I will catch up and maybe even do a bit of a squiggling blitz)
