Where Was I?

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Fifty Years Ago on Nov.22nd

I had graduated from nursing school and just in my first year of marriage.

I was 21 years old.

I was shopping downtown Cleveland in Higbees.

I heard people talking and upset about something and listened more carefully when I heard the murmurings of the terrible news of the president being shot.

I made my way to the television department in Higbees where other people were also gathering.

I don't know how long I was there watching the news but I remember the bus ride home.  

It was totally silent on the bus.

I later found out that my 2nd husband, Jack had also been there in Higbees at the same time.

I didn't meet him for another 14 years.

I was working at St Luke's hospital as my first job as a new RN and was in a ward on an all women's floor when Oswald was shot.  We watched that on a TV in the ward.

I just remembered that as I was thinking about things on this day.

Where were you that day?

Everyone remembers.

Shirley