[Magdalen] FDR Dies.

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kate Conant <kate.conant at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 14, 2018 5:29 PM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] FDR Dies.
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>I remember my mother telling me when JFK died that she always remembered
>where she was when she heard that FDR died.  Now I remember what happened
>at Stout Jr High in Dearborn, Michigan on November 22, 1963.
>
>Kate
>
>"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
>humbly with your God?"
>Micah 6:8
>
>On Sat, Apr 14, 2018 at 1:08 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>> In my experience, there was quite a hubbub over this event.  I was 7 at
>> the time.  This even involved die-hard Republicans like my family.  If for
>> no other reason than his great length in the Office of Presidency USA (FDR
>> was on his fourth term) and the facts that he had been guiding us through
>> the Great Depression and then WW-2, his life and death had big impact.
>>
>> There's that famous New Yorker (I think) cartoon that has son at his
>> father's
>> knee, with father telling son, "Someday you can be Vice-President."
>>
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>> David S.
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>> In a message dated 4/14/2018 12:38:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> I remember other things that happened around that time. This just wasn't
>> one of them.
>>
It was only 16 years between the death of FDR and JFK

I think I may remember some events from 1945 but I had a late birth day so I was under 2 until November. I remember my Father coming home panicked and upset from Sunday Mass.

I later learned that my aunt the wife of my mother's older brother died in the back of St. Kilian Church. She died in 1945 so I am not sure whether that recollection is of her death.

I also remember an air raid drill and my father being part of the patrol and we always kept his helmet from that assignment.

I thought it was WWII but later I thought it may have been the Cold War and just local preparedness.

I remember my parent's 16th anniversary July 16, 1946, I remember attending the Chicago Railroad Fair in 1948 and 1949 and being in kindergarten at my mother's school and Miss Fennemann putting me in the closet for some infraction and my mother coming to retrieve me. I don't know what the infraction was. I don't remember my mother being very upset.

Also remember my tonsillectory in 1948 and my only overnight hospitalization yet.

Joe Cirou