I know most of you young pups on here were either not born yet or were little kids on December 8/80, but I'm sure there are some who will remember something of import that happened that day.
I had walked from the house I owned at the time over to a nearby 7-Eleven for a bottle of Coke and heard on a radio in the store that John Lennon had been gunned down in New York City. The Beatles had been a major part of the soundtrack of my life but Lennon as a solo artist was every bit as remarkable as he'd been as a member of the Fab Four. Listen to or read the lyrics of "Imagine" and see if there's very much of what he says that you'd argue with. Of course it's idealistic and impossible, given that mankind seems to have a gene that is devoted entirely to the waging of war, but the sentiment Lennon expresses is a noble one and there's no denying it would be a much better world if we could ever achieve the things he asks us to imagine.
Considering the only other event I remember with such clarity as to where I was and what I was doing when I heard about it it's as if it happened yesterday is the assassination of John Kennedy, it seems the only things that make that kind of impact on my brain are when famous people named "John" are killed by someone with a gun. Or in the case of JFK, multiple someones, no matter what the Warren Report concluded.
Take a minute to Google the lyric to "Imagine" if you don't already know it. Then imagine the kind of world it could be as opposed to the kind of world it is.
I had walked from the house I owned at the time over to a nearby 7-Eleven for a bottle of Coke and heard on a radio in the store that John Lennon had been gunned down in New York City. The Beatles had been a major part of the soundtrack of my life but Lennon as a solo artist was every bit as remarkable as he'd been as a member of the Fab Four. Listen to or read the lyrics of "Imagine" and see if there's very much of what he says that you'd argue with. Of course it's idealistic and impossible, given that mankind seems to have a gene that is devoted entirely to the waging of war, but the sentiment Lennon expresses is a noble one and there's no denying it would be a much better world if we could ever achieve the things he asks us to imagine.
Considering the only other event I remember with such clarity as to where I was and what I was doing when I heard about it it's as if it happened yesterday is the assassination of John Kennedy, it seems the only things that make that kind of impact on my brain are when famous people named "John" are killed by someone with a gun. Or in the case of JFK, multiple someones, no matter what the Warren Report concluded.
Take a minute to Google the lyric to "Imagine" if you don't already know it. Then imagine the kind of world it could be as opposed to the kind of world it is.
