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| The crash of United Flight 823 took place in 1964. People back then had a different way of thinking and had a regard for human life. | The crash of United Flight 823 took place in 1964. People back then had a different way of thinking and had a regard for human life. | ||
| - | It has been said that our innocence as a country was lost when John Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963. If one sees that as being the case, then it must be admitted that July 1964 was still within the immediate aftermath of when the initial, so called loss of innocence took place. Simply put: People in 1964 had not yet begun to take part in suicidal exercises that involved taking the lives of others //en masse//. It would be two more years before killer Charles Whitman would wound thirty-two and take the lives of seventeen-most of whom near the University of Texas bell tower. | + | It has been said that our innocence as a country was lost when John Kennedy was assassinated in November of 1963. If one sees that as being the case, then it must be admitted that July 1964 was within the immediate aftermath of the so called loss of innocence. Simply put: People in 1964 had not yet begun to take part in suicidal exercises that involved taking the lives of others //en masse//. It would be two more years before killer Charles Whitman would wound thirty-two and take the lives of seventeen-most of whom near the University of Texas bell tower. |
| Those of us who were alive 50 years ago vividly recall the self-immolation of several Vietnamese Buddhist monks and a Buddhist nun in 1963, but these were political acts against the Diem regime in South Vietnam. | Those of us who were alive 50 years ago vividly recall the self-immolation of several Vietnamese Buddhist monks and a Buddhist nun in 1963, but these were political acts against the Diem regime in South Vietnam. | ||
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