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The Beginning of the End

It was hard to lie in hospital yesterday and not think of the death that occurred exactly 25 years earlier. I'll always consider John Lennon's assassination and Reagan's ascension as the two events that turned my world (and certainly this country) around from hopeful to dangerous and possibly suicidal. I haven't even begun to catch up on blog reading since my return from hospital, but wanted to recommend a quatrain of posts from Huffingland to start with:

Martin Lewis: Still A Drag… John Lennon’s Death - 25 years On
Steve Anderson: The Beatles Changed Everything
Megan Pillow: A Letter to Yoko Ono on the 25th Anniversary of Her Husband's Death
Darin Murphy: Experiencing John Lennon

I look forward to reading others' reminiscences and tributes to one of the most extraordinary people of the 20th century.