Remember?

From Talking Points Memo:

TPM Reader JS asks ...
Have you noticed the lack of commemoration of the assassination of JFK on November 22, 1963? I find no reference to that sad, and seminal, event. Am I the only person who reads the blogs and has a personal memory of that day?

Certainly hadn't occurred to me. But now that he mentions it, yes, it did used to be a date for which there was always some build up and moments of commemoration. But now nothing. Is it just some critical mass in the passage of years? Forty-two years and it's just definitively part of the past? Or is it some political or cultural inflection point the country's passed through post-9/11? Maybe it's none of these and JS and I are notice a difference that's not there.

Maybe the "rewriting of history" thing that so many of the administration seem intent on condemning doesn't include forgetting history if the historical subject belonged to the other party? We certainly hear a lot about Ronald Reagan, who in my estimation was a rotten president.

Where were you on November 22, 1963? More later . . . .