By Walter Day
When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, Walter Day's 9th grade Civics teacher, Mr. Burke, led the classroom in a lively discussion on how an event like this would impact our lives forever. We would always remeber exactly where we were at the moment we learned the President had been shot. And, many of us -- if not all of us -- would tuck away the daily newspapers that reported on the event. It may only happen a few times in our lives when we were alive to witness major historical events unfold like this.
Not surprisingly, Walter and all his fellow students at P...