Lessons from the '60s in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death

Iwas in seventh grade math class when the superintendent came on the intercom to announce President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. Moments later, Superintendent Wylie Key returned to the intercom to say the young president had died, and to call for a moment of silent prayer.

The year was 1963, and I can’t forget making a minor but inappropriate comment to a classmate about how Lyndon B. Johnson unfortunately would now be president.

All this came to mind because I recently saw someone on Facebook wondering how Americans in the 1960s dealt with the decade’s assassinations, riots, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and civil rights and war protests.

Looking back, I’d say we didn’t deal too well with stress in the ’60s. Still, as a country, we fared far better back then than we have wi