Friday, November 22, 2013

The Day Walter Cronkite Cried

I liked today a lot more a few moments ago, before recalling the date. Fifty years. Who can believe? 

That day's events are embedded in my memory, just as they are for countless others. The questions still remain. "How?" "Why?"

Most distressing is the return of heart-wrenching feelings and overwhelming emotions that seem never to fade.

JFK. Mourning the loss. Remembering the life. Forever back to the sea.


“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came” JFK