Ah, but having THAT moment in my own life is why I could understand in retrospect the look on my grandmother's face when she talked about JFK's assassination.

I remember watching news footage of Reagan being shot, but it was... political, rather than striking at the heart of the things I try to hold hope for. Politics is nasty, messy, and often underhanded, so that kind of danger is not unusual. It was a far more impersonal tragedy to me.