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I remember quite well where I was on the day of JFK's assassination; I was a junior in high school and was in typing class when an announcement came over the school intercom. There was total silence (probably the first time that had happened in a school of 1600) for several minutes. Everyone was in shock. No one of our generation had experienced such a tragedy before. Little did we know at that time that this was only the beginning--Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., to be followed by the Vietnam War which took the lives of many of our classmates. Of course, since then so many tragedies in our world has occurred. But I will have to say that probably no other world event has had quite as a profound impact on my emotions as that sad day in November, 1963. We sat in front of the tv for days grieving with the family as if it were our own-and I say "we" because everyone around me felt the same. We were cheated out of a leader that was admired-and the admiration grew.. The respect for Jacqueline's courage was a lesson in how to live for us all. When she died just this past year, the sadness was brought back. I have lived "several" years since then--26 of those years have been spent as a teacher and/or librarian--but I still feel the sense of tremendous loss just as much today as I did in 1963. Our world lost a magnificent leader on that fateful day. Edna Major, LMS majore@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us Black Fox Elem. Murfreesboro, TN 37130