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The tumultuous ’60s had begun.
The Byrds’ “He Was a Friend of Mine” served as a rock n roll eulogy in a similar way Walt Whitman s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d” soothed the country following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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“I was 13 when Kennedy was assassinated,” Springsteen said. “I always remember I was in gym class playing soccer in the field. Someone came running out of the high school and slammed themselves up against the chain-link fence and said the president s been shot. We all rushed inside and the rest was history.
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April 5, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
NASHVILLE When the poet Amanda Gorman stepped to the lectern at President Biden’s inauguration, she faced a much-diminished crowd of masked people on the National Mall, but she was speaking directly to the heart of a bruised nation:
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true:
That even as we grieved, we grew,
That even as we hurt, we hoped,
That even as we tired, we tried.
Ms. Gorman’s poem addressed to “Americans, and the World” was timeless in that way of the most necessary poems, but it was more than just timeless. After a year of losses both literal and figurative, she offered a salve that soothed, however briefly, our broken hearts and our broken age.