Word: deathday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best. And Jeremy may not be kidding when he says that in Viet Nam "I died." Alive or dead, he is the twisted ghost of every Camelot ideal. This good boy went off to war; now he has returned, the hunter haunted, to turn Thanksgiving dinner into a deathday party for all domestic illusions...
John Kennedy's bright trajectory ended in midpassage, severed in that glaring Friday noontime in Dallas. The moment 20 years ago when one learned the news became precisely fixed in the memory, the mind stopping like a clock just then. It is Kennedy's deathday, not his birthday, that we observe. History abruptly left off, and after the shock had begun to pass, the mythmaking began-the mind haunted by the hypothetical, by what might have been...