Comments on: Where were you when…?

By: heather

heather — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:27:09 +0000

We seem to all share that hope. The other unifying memory that I thought of was The OJ Chase. It was such a photograph of our present place of relations in this country. Thanks for the comment, as always.
Hope your school year’s going well!
-Heather

By: Mike Albert

Mike Albert — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:05:14 +0000

Speaking as an historian, I thought that it was interesting that the “defining moments” you mentioned can be divided into two distinct categories. JFK, Challenger, and 9/11 fall into the “shocking” category — events that shocked people at the time, and may or may not prove to be harbingers of the future (JFK was, and 9/11 appears to be; Challenger was not); or events that were important but can be seen with hindsight as clearly the inevitable culmination of a series of events, although each could have gone either way at the time (Obama, moon landing, VE day, etc.).

My own 8th grade classes went overwhelmingly for Obama; what was more interesting to me was their opposition to Prop. 8, which I sense was not how their parents (overwhelmingly Hispanic) actually voted. My hope is that this election portends the beginning of the kind of activism and involvement that will be needed to solve some of the problems we have gotten ourselves into.

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tweenteacher.com » Obama and World of Warcraft — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:25:16 +0000

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By: heather

heather — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:46:39 +0000

Thanks for commenting. My students really took it seriously today when we spoke about taking a “mental shapshot” of history as it was happening. The McCain supporters and Obama supporters all were in awe that they could share this moment in history together. I also asked those who would have voted for McCain, what that could do to move on from disappointment in order to find commonality and happiness in this united states. I asked my Obama supporters, what could they do to help others feel included in the hope that they feel today.

We also talked a lot about what it meant to disagree. It’s important that people don’t see the “other side” as crazy because of their opinions. We talked about passion for one’s opinions and having more passion for our unity and commonalities.
-TT

By: Anne Bain Epling

Anne Bain Epling — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:20:59 +0000

Those are good thoughts that I’ll share at dinner tonight. We’ve been talking politics non-stop and took the kids to see Obama here in St. Louis-100,000 people. As I told the boys this morning, all doors are now open, and that is an incredible thing. My sermon title for Sunday is “Hope Trumps Fear”. Amen. It’s about time.