I was in 4th grade and remember wondering why everyone was so upset, it's not like we actually knew him. I had been to a few funerals of people we knew and didn't remember nearly such a fuss. My mother was fairly quiet about it but told me it was a big deal.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.