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Sorry for another re-run but after spending half of the day getting my neck checked out following the injury I sustained during the PTSD nightmare that I wrote about Monday. I also had very little sleep last night, and since coming home have been working on the revision of the chapter for my Gettysburg text. It has taken on an interesting twist as I deal with the probable effects of PTSD and Moral Injury in the life of the Hero of Little Round Top, Major General Gouverneur Kemble Warren. I am having Judy do some edits before I post it here, so I decided to re-post an article from last year about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Last year was the 50th anniversary of this tragic event, but it seems that this year little has been written or posted about it. Kennedy is a hero to me, an imperfect one, but a hero to be sure. I had feet of clay, did not always make the right decisions, but I go back to his service as a young Naval Officer in World War Two, serving on PT Boats in the Solomon Islands. Someday I will do a more detailed article on JFK’s Naval service.
So have a great night,
Peace
Padre Steve+
President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas on a sunny November afternoon 50 years ago. The images of the event and its aftermath in photos and film still haunt us and find themselves etched in our individual and collective memory. The two shots that killed the President were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald according to the Warren Commission and subsequent inquiries although there are a host of conspiracy theories regarding the assassination. My purpose is not to prove or disprove the official version or any alternative explanation. I personally believe that Oswald was the lone gunman, but I have to wonder if there were others involved in the plot and at times if there was a second shooter.
However today my purpose is to remember Kennedy’s assassination, a horrible event in the life of our nation and to reflect on how easily something similar could happen again.
Kennedy in…
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