Date:         Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:51:51 -0700
From: krystan v douglas <krys@UNM.EDU>
Subject:      EXER: political memories/emotional states

During the recent political silly season, some friends and I had a
discussion about our earliest political memories and our most powerful
political memories. For me, the earliest is a memory of my father raging
about some jackass in Washington named Joe McCarthy; I suspect this has
a lot to do with my negative reaction to many conservatives, even when
I agree with them. My most powerful (in some ways) is of shaking Bobby
Kennedy's hand 10 days before he was assassinated. Both of these have
some important emotions tied to them (then and now). The conversation
got me to thinking about those emotions, and how had they sometimes are to
define.

That made me think it might be a good writing exercise. So you
assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to identify your earliest
and most powerful political memories (they may be the same thing) and to
discover and describe the emotions attached to them.

Good luck,

Krys