Thank You

Today is an anniversary I find it important to acknowledge. Not a happy one. But one that changed all of our perspectives on life. A national loss of innocence, a cultural blow. Today, forty-two years ago at the moment of this post, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas. His work and thoughts and flaws gave us all hope. And his death was a marker of the end of our youth as a country. His was followed by Dr. King's, and then Bobby's. Three men. Three Humans. Three souls who fought their best for all of us.

I think it is important to remember those who have given us their best. Especially when they accomplished so much. And especially when violence and anger ends their work before its' time.

Today I would like to remind myself that good men do roam this earth and do make a difference.



I leave you with an excerpt from Cardinal Richard Cushing's Eulogy of President Kennedy:

...John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America, has fought the good fight for the God-given rights of his fellow man and for a world where peace and freedom shall prevail.

He has finished the race at home and in foreign lands alerting all men to the dangers and the hopes of the future, pledging aid in every form to those who attempted to misinterpret his words, to misunderstand his country, to become discouraged and to abandon themselves to false prophets.

He has fulfilled unto death a privilege he made on the day of his inauguration--a privilege in the form of a pledge--I shall not shrink from my responsibilities.

Far more would he have accomplished for America and the world if it were not for his assassination here in the land that he loved and for which he dedicated and gave his life.

May his noble soul rest in peace. May his memory be perpetuated in our hearts as a symbol of love for God, country and all mankind, the foundation upon which a new world must be built if our civilization is to survive.

Eternal peace grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him...