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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Remembering November 22, 1963
Uploaded: Nov 14, 2013
My now deceased parents remembered Pearl Harbor, the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11.
I was a fourth grader when Kennedy was killed, and all I recall about it was that it was a confusing weekend. My family went to church on Sunday, and Lee Harvey Oswald was killed while we were singing hymns.
I lived in Texas a few years after the assassination, and one of my classmates in high school said that there was applause in his Dallas elementary school when it was announced that Kennedy had been killed. Unbelievable.
I fervently hope that such tragic events do not occur again. But I suspect something will happen in the not so predictable future.
What do you remember? What was your reaction?
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