Sixty-one years ago, President Kennedy was assassinated. Pawpaw was in the Army at the time, and he and Nanaw were living in Columbus, Georgia. It was a Friday, just like it is today, and Pawpaw had the day off. They were watching As the World Turns, one of Nanaw's soap operas, when the announcement came that the president had been killed. For the next several days, that was all that was on television, and the whole country watched. Today Mama had the day off from work, and she took Chase to school. Nanaw forgot that Mama was taking Chase, and she got up at her regular time, 5:50 a.m. When she remembered, she wen back to bed and slept to 10 -- yay! When Nanaw picked Chase up, he told her about his homework: he had to finish his consumer math packet, do a geography worksheet, do his AR for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, do the vocabulary for chapters 1 to 6 of Mockingbird, and finish the Gospel of Mark questions that are due on Monday. He didn't want to do any homework at Nanaw's but Mama said it would be a good idea to do some of it because he was busy with sports all day on Saturday. On Sunday, he and Daddy were going to 7 a.m. mass so that they could go to Uncle Mike's birthday breakfast.
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