The JFK Challenge

[OrangeEmpire]

Many years ago President Kennedy issued a challenge to the nation and to the world. He said:

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

My question, and I ask in all sincerity is this:

Have you ever done something that you didn’t think you could do? Something that was too hard?

And/or

Have you ever quit something, something that you loved or was important to you, because it was too hard?

Kennedy said many other things with these among them:

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.

Thoughts?

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[MG1968]

the welfare state had yet to be invented by his successor, so "not praying for easy lives" has become "pray the government makes your life easier by doing everything for you".

 

[Volitics]

Touching on LBJ's welfare state or his "Great Society" programs - a glaring indicator that some people did not think that the African American folks were capable of taking care of themselves. Perhaps noble intentions but indeed shameful thinking.

 

[TheGimp]

the welfare state had yet to be invented by his successor, so "not praying for easy lives" has become "pray the government makes your life easier by doing everything for you".

These programs were being created during JFK's presidency. Johnson was just able to get them passed in congress.