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Today in 1962, JFK pledges the U.S. to go to the moon by decade’s end in a speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas. “We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

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ballou 8 Sep 13
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Nice achievement too.

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I don't think Trump and his crowd want to do hard things. They like the easy path!

I agree, and they want to oppress the populace and take, take, take everything away from the rest of us.

They want to take from the poor and give to the rich! Robin Hood in reverse.
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Life was so very different then !

Actually if you think about it, it was very turbulent times. We lost a lot of people to violence.
Medgar Evans
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr,
John Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
All to gun violence, guess it really wasn't so different after all
We had a bullshit war back then, and we have a bullshit war now.

@MikeFlora Those were single murders then . Today we have mass shootings , in schools , churches , and other public places . It's worse .

@MikeFlora Not to mention that JFK had to deal with the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union because of this. There was a possible WWIII looming at that time.

@balou Yes I remember the fear I felt over the Bay of Pigs incident , even though I really didn't really fully understand what was going on . Dad had won an assignment to GTMO , and just weeks before we were to pack and go there , Castro , whom the US was backing , overthrew Batista . Things went downhill from there . Castro was also being backed by Russia , and they set up missles in Cuba aimed at the US .

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