My father can still recall it despite the passage of over 50 years. He was 9-years-old and walking home from school when a woman informed him that President Kennedy had died. My mother still vividly remembers what she was doing when she heard John Lennon was assassinated. Moments like Kennedy and Lennon’s untimely deaths remain indelible in the minds of nearly everyone who was alive at the time.
While I listened to my parents’ stories, I had never experienced one of those moments until Sunday, when I heard the shocking news that Kobe Bryant had died at 41 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.