DEATH OF INNOCENCE

There are not many of us left who saw the assassination of John Kennedy, 

but only those of us who were alive before that awful weekend can really know how much it changed America.

We had been a confident nation. 

We had won World War II. We believed in our leaders. We came to see our presidents as all but invincible. 

Because of television, we had come to know John Kennedy and his family more intimately than any of his predecessors.

 Then, in a matter of seconds, he was killed 

by a madman. 

The entire nation watched in horror and shock as the events of that weekend unfolded on television in real time 

-- the FIRST time that had ever happened -- 

our national confidence was shaken to the core. 

 That weekend began one of the most violent decades in our country's history

 -- more assassinations, Vietnam, 

the beginning of Watergate -- 

a time Americans came to question almost everything we had once taken for granted.

 Now, as I look at the current political scene, America seems to have fallen into nightmare.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?