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I wasn't intending to post today but this bears mention.
I was reminded by Good Morning America that it's been ten years to the day (July 16, 1999) since John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane went down in Nantucket Sound. John died with his wife and sister-in-law.
I recall the shock and horror of a promising young life abbreviated at age thirty-nine.
John was first, last, and always a gentleman.
He was tremendously easy on the eyes and made everyone around him immediately comfortable - ever (apprently) unaware of his physical presence. His sister Caroline has that same affect on people. I think too, now as I'm thinking back over the decade, how difficult it must be on Caroline to be the lone surviving member of a family who once represented the term "Camelot".
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has been called many things by many people but the one thing she never gets called is a "lousy mother". I think she did an incredible job teaching both her children values of the REAL variety and humility... That legacy I hope will be carried down through Caroline's Schlossberg children.
My family (until my own generation) have been staunch Republicans and despised everything Kennedy. My dad and I used to get very heated over the Kennedy topic. But when John Jr. died ten years ago today it was the end of an era to many here in New England.
I have too many emotions floating around in my mind to go on much more about JFK jr.'s death but let it suffice to say;
Johnny? I miss you sorely.
John and Carolyn
I was reminded by Good Morning America that it's been ten years to the day (July 16, 1999) since John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane went down in Nantucket Sound. John died with his wife and sister-in-law.
I recall the shock and horror of a promising young life abbreviated at age thirty-nine.
John was first, last, and always a gentleman.
He was tremendously easy on the eyes and made everyone around him immediately comfortable - ever (apprently) unaware of his physical presence. His sister Caroline has that same affect on people. I think too, now as I'm thinking back over the decade, how difficult it must be on Caroline to be the lone surviving member of a family who once represented the term "Camelot".
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis has been called many things by many people but the one thing she never gets called is a "lousy mother". I think she did an incredible job teaching both her children values of the REAL variety and humility... That legacy I hope will be carried down through Caroline's Schlossberg children.
My family (until my own generation) have been staunch Republicans and despised everything Kennedy. My dad and I used to get very heated over the Kennedy topic. But when John Jr. died ten years ago today it was the end of an era to many here in New England.
I have too many emotions floating around in my mind to go on much more about JFK jr.'s death but let it suffice to say;
Johnny? I miss you sorely.
John and Carolyn