to Sutter: as you suspected, I was in fact glued to technology all day Inauguration Day (online, C-Span, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, even Fox! for demented dittohead factor) ... brief interludes of walking around the back yard in the windy cold to grok what was happening (a friend said she "kept feeling like Europe must have felt at the end of WWII as their countries were liberated by the Allies" :) ...
and remembering:
1960
JFK Inaugural I was ten
1963
June Medgar Evers assassination he was my father's age
September Birmingham bombings I was their age
November JFK assassination I cried in the cloakroom and a classmate laughed at me
1964
June Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner the laughing men who murdered them haunt me to this day
1965
February Malcolm X assassination
1967
October Che assassination
1968
April MLK assassination
June RFK assassination
August Chicago
1969
December Draft lottery
Fred Hampton assassination I had just met him
1970
May Kent State
1972
McGovern/Nixon my first vote
1973
September 11 Salvador Allende
September 23 Pablo Neruda
1980
December 8 John Lennon
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i fell in love ... a daughter and a son
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1999
my father died
2000
Gore/Bush
2001
September 9/11 I was getting ready for work
October 12-26 Patriot Act
2002
Paul Wellstone former professor
2003
Invasion of Iraq
2006
my lover, the father of my children, died
2007
obama
i return to college
2008
obama
Unjust Deserts
by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
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