I was in 5th grade.
I recall everything from that day.
Our teacher Mr. Allard went out into the hall and whispered with another teacher.
He came back in the classroom and told the kids that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
Then they sent us home early from school.
When I got home, my mom was crying.
And she put some music on the stereo that she never played before.
It was Mozart's Requiem.