Remember this?
I was looking through some history for October this morning, and one event brought back a huge memory from my long-ago childhood. Anyone remember singing this song in elementary school? One dark night, while we were all in bed Old Miz O’Leary left a lantern in the shed And when the cow kicked it over, [...]
Where were you?
Seems like everyone remembers. While I don’t remember where I was the day JFK was assassinated, I do remember watching the funeral on TV with my dad and being completely terrified of the flag-draped coffin pulled on the caisson. The memory of that feeling has stayed with me my whole life. I remember exactly where [...]
And on this date: school.
How about some cool school trivia? Today, 23 April, 376 years ago, school was officially in. In 1635, Boston Latin School became America’s first educational institution funded completely by local government. The first headmaster was paid “fifty pounds and a house” from the public treasury. Its students were taught to “dissent with responsibility.” Five signers [...]
Like it was yesterday
That’s how I remember it. On 8 December, 1980, I was pacing my living room floor while watching a football game, with a sleepy six-week-old Seamus in my arms, when the news broke sometime in the late evening. Howard Cosell said something like, “It’s hard to go back to the game after reporting this.” Strangely [...]
Infamy
Most of the time, war requires preparation. People know it’s coming; oftentimes, it’s a gradual progression to conflict. Not so with 7 December, 1941. For many years after, important people swore it would be the last time the United States would be caught unawares on such a huge scale. That held true until September 2001. [...]