{"id":12853,"date":"2020-11-22T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12853"},"modified":"2020-11-22T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T16:18:07","slug":"a-sad-anniversary-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12853","title":{"rendered":"A sad anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

So: How often have you heard it remarked today that this is the 57th<\/sup> anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?<\/p>\n

Not once, I’m guessing.<\/p>\n

I mention this because it’s a pointer to how time rolls on. It wasn’t that long ago — 10-years? — that this date could not pass without at least a mention of it, perhaps a broadcast snippet of the infamous Zapruder film, a flash of the image of a scowling Oswald. For decades, there were books written in futile attempts to sort-out the botched investigation. But searching just now, I find less than a half-dozen allusions to the assassination on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Those who were middle-aged at the time are now gone. Those who were young adults are … going, by the thousands, every single day. To we who were young schoolchildren it’s now just a dramatic childhood memory whose outlines are fuzzy.<\/p>\n

The stoics had an expression: memento mori<\/i> — remember that you will die. The Kennedy assassination is a good example of what they meant: Keep things in perspective, because time rolls on and the day is not far off when nobody, anywhere, will care about today’s events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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