Remembrance

Greetings to all!!! I pray the day is treating you well. Today is November 24th and for the past several days there has been show after show celebrating the life and remembering the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. He was a son, a brother, a father, a husband, a friend and a President. His untimely death left a nation mourning. The unthinkable act of assassination left a nation praying for answers. So many of the shows on television are stories from those who knew him, clips of his life, what's left of his legacy and many.....many people who remember where they were and what they were doing the very moment our President was shot. There are few events that happen in life that allow us to remember, as if it were yesterday, what we were doing and where we were. Those events are driven by extreme tragedy or pleasurable life moments. We have a need as humans to somehow connect ourselves to tragic events in history. For every history changing event that occurs, we read about it or experienced it. The same will be for every generation to come. I was not alive when John F. Kennedy was killed. I was not alive when Malcolm X was killed. I was not alive during the race riots, March on Washington or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I have read about these events and I have talked to others who were alive and do remember, as if it were yesterday, where they were and what they were doing. I however do remember where I was and what I was doing when the OKC Murrah Building was bombed, 9/11, the O.J. Simpson verdict was read, the Rodney King verdict and the riots that ensued afterward. Those are moments in history my son will read about and ask me for a firsthand account. Connecting ourselves to these events allow us to be part of history. To be part of something bigger than ourselves and something that unites us with others. Events that in one way or another touch us and bind us. These events may or may not shape our individual futures but they do in one way or another shape the world we live in. Our need to remember allows us to cope, to deal with difficult situations. It allows us to mourn for others, for a nation, for a group of people or it angers us to fight for change, stop injustices, serve a greater good. Whatever the case may be, we remember. Our memories and our feelings are our own...No one can take them from us. We remember so we don't forget, we remember so we don't repeat, we remember to give honor.....do these things in remembrance of ....... Love you all!!!