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RE: A beautiful shooting star - A short story of Weekend freewrite
A great little story!
I don't think I've ever felt different about someone after they were dead except for JFK. I was a little kid at the time and my dad made a disparaging remark when my uncle told him JFK had been shot. He said, "Where did they shoot him - in the ass?"
I found out about him saying this when I got home from elementary school. My parents didn't like JFK because he was Catholic, and so I didn't like him either, but the shock of him being murdered was hard to understand at my age.
I thought what my dad said was revolting. I think that's the only time in my life that my opinion of a man changed after JFK died, but it was for an obvious reason.
Oh, what a raw story. Sometimes parents don't measure what they're going to say in front of their children, do they? Normally, people have some respect when talking about a deceased person, maybe it's superstition or fear, but they tend to be more cautious than usual.
Thank you, @free-reign!