Everyone my parents’ age remembers where they were when President John F. Kennedy was shot. Their parents remember where they were when imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Last Saturday, July 13, shortly after 6 p.m., I was sitting by the pool reading the news on my phone. I bet you remember where you were, too.
In an instant, we saw the attempted assassination of a former and perhaps future American president.
Donald Trump came within half an inch of being the fifth president to be felled by an assassin’s bullet; he is now one of several more who were wounded in an assassination attempt.
Trump’s reaction under fire at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the photographs taken in its immediate aftermath, already are iconic reminders of an awful day.
The instant coverage from much of the news media seemed to minimize the gravity and tragedy of the…
