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15. I was a freshman in high school in algebra class. My teacher was writing a problem on the board when our principal came

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over the room’s loudspeaker with the announcement. My teacher dropped the piece of chalk and we were in such stunned silence, I heard it splatter when it hit the floor and then the room was abuzz until another announcement that we were all to go to the cafeteria. They had brought in a TV on a cart and we all watched in disbelief. Shortly after Walter Cronkite announced he had died, we were excused early to go home. Before church on Sunday, we were watching TV when Jack Ruby shot Oswald. School was canceled on the day of the funeral. That drum cadence during the caisson procession, John John saluting and the riderless horse stuck in my brain. The collective experience of senseless tragedy and loss sears deep. Be well DU family.

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