October 29, 2012
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The latest issue of Senior Independence News, published by (surprisingly) our county Council on Aging, has a list of comparisons between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. No doubt you've seen such lists over the years. Since 1963 there has been an attempt to make Kennedy into a Lincoln, but that's not the point of this screed. What is the point, you might well ask. This is: Some of the comparisons are interesting and serious, some are not. I won't burden you with the whole list, but I did laugh out loud at the last one.
"A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland. A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe."
