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Jun. 12th, 2020 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwIn my memory, June 12 is always this event in 1982
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/311568.html#comments
but in 1963, it was the day Medgar Evers died (DW finds both of those to be misspelled words. Step it up, spell-check). I was seven and a half, and I don't remember any news at all that summer that wasn't related to astronauts (or cosmonauts - this was just before Valentina Tereshkova went up. DW is OK with the spelling of *her* name). I was pretty much ignorant of racial justice movements at the time. I am not sure I knew before today that ME is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, as a WWII veteran.
in 2016, 49 people were murdered at the Pulse nightclub, in Orlando. in 2020, the Trump administration finalized a reversal of health protections for transgender people.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/868073068/transgender-health-protections-reversed-by-trump-administration
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/311568.html#comments
but in 1963, it was the day Medgar Evers died (DW finds both of those to be misspelled words. Step it up, spell-check). I was seven and a half, and I don't remember any news at all that summer that wasn't related to astronauts (or cosmonauts - this was just before Valentina Tereshkova went up. DW is OK with the spelling of *her* name). I was pretty much ignorant of racial justice movements at the time. I am not sure I knew before today that ME is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, as a WWII veteran.
in 2016, 49 people were murdered at the Pulse nightclub, in Orlando. in 2020, the Trump administration finalized a reversal of health protections for transgender people.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/12/868073068/transgender-health-protections-reversed-by-trump-administration
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