I believe I was in 5th grade at a catholic school. Nuns were balling like babies. We were sent home early. Saw Mom cry for the first time that day. Remember watching the funeral procession and the cason with the riderless horse and the boots on backwards in the saddle. People were crying and the world seemed to stand still for those few days. Then remember when Ruby shot Oswald right there on TV. Unbelieveable....what's the world coming to?! I asked my Dad why God let these things happen and he said their work was done on earth, God had greater things for them in Heaven. Then in 1968, when ML King and Bobby Kennedy were shot, my dad passed suddenly in Nov. same year. All I could remember was his words, God had greater things for these great people in Heaven...including my Dad.
Mom passed in Nov. 1997, same year as Mother Teresa and Princess Diana.