I was 10 years old when #JFK was assassinated, the first stake in the heart of my youthful innocence. Fortunately, my parents ensured that we never turned away from the news of the day. Indeed, their perspective gave me the strength to weather much worse things to come nationally and internationally. I worry, though, that our collective lost innocence is taking a dreadful toll on children - and adults - today.
@cassandra17lina I was 9, & my parents sound just like yours. We disagreed on many things, but the big things - the importance of doing the right thing, of caring about other people, that who someone *was* meant more than what they looked like or how much they had, that voting was a privilege & that we had a duty to participate in the political life of the country - stayed w/ me for life, & I can never be grateful enough for that.