Where were you 50 years ago today ?

[depchief]

Ft. Bliss, El Paso, TX. Nike Ajax missile Training base area.

[RoyM]

I had just turned 12, no interest in politics except in the school yard but remember being mildly curious about this young enthusiastic president of a neighbor I didn't know a whole heck of a lot about. November 22 is burned into my brain though.

[JackHammr']

first grade

[ParTheCourse]

On board or just off the troop transport USNS General Simon B. Buckner, in route from Ft. Brag, N.C. to Lee Barracks Mainz, Germany.

[DBOL]

Fixing to turn 15 Austin Texas worried like so many in the South about the religion of the New President and still worried about the Religion of the Present President!

[jodann]

Freezing my tail off at Lowry AFB, Colorado, attending tech school after completing basic training at Lackland AFB in balmy San Antonio, Tx.

[gripper]

I was 23 years old, married, with 2 children and just starting my 2nd. year as a fireman, for the City of Tampa. Will celebrate my 54th wedding anniversary this year.

[two-niner]

Sweating and soldiering down in the Panama Canal Zone.

Read about it the next day in the Stars and Stripes.

Kerry

[wildtoad]

Living in the Canal Zone with my folks (Only 8 at the time). We did spend a good bit of the summers touring Central America in a VW bus "enhanced" to have some camping equipment. My first introduction to RV'ing.

[srrobe]

To all of the folks on this thread who were in our country's armed forces, I thank you for your service and for the freedom your all helped to preserve!

I was nine and remember well "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you ca do for your country."-John F. Kennedy

[sgtjoe]

At North Central High School in Spoken WA.

[Rocket Heart]

16 years old living in Toledo OH. 3 years later on alert with the USAF at Ellsworth AFB Pres. Kennedy had been killed. A year earlier the bay of pigs - pretty scary times.

[Dixieray53]

Getting ready for my 8th birthday. Kankakee Illinois

[Madame Boomer]

Originally Posted by DBOL

Fixing to turn 15 Austin Texas worried like so many in the South about the religion of the New President and still worried about the Religion of the Present President!

DBol -

I had to laugh (not in a critical way) about the first comment in your post...about being 15 and worried about the religion of the new President.........because

I was 11 years old and being brought up in West Texas in a Presbyterian home...I had NEVER met a Catholic. Didn't know what one was! I was also worried about the President's religion because I had heard somewhere that Catholics had to eat fish on Friday...every Friday.....if a person was Catholic, they had to eat fish...period...that was their religion!

I was afraid that when JFK became President that he would make it a law that every American would have to eat fish every Friday

.....and I hate fish!


Sandy