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I'm going to spend some Kennedy Halves on Nov. 22

ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
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......lest we Forget.

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  • SamByrdSamByrd Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭✭
    me too , great idea. image
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    I spend Kennedy halves every day, but I'll definitely make sure they're mostly, if not all halves that day.
  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    Okay. Newbee here. Why the halves on the 22nd? image
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Okay. Newbee here. Why the halves on the 22nd? image >>



    duh imageimage
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  • goldengolden Posts: 10,112 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great idea. I will spend some also.
  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    I've been spending some this month as well. Amazing how few people (1) know what they are, or (2) say they haven't seen them in a very long time. It's a novelty for many of them. And this is happening in one of the biggest cities in America, not some little village.
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  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    Lets see, what's that old phrase? Oh yeah, "Sometimes it's better to be thought the fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".... DUH ME... image
    I think I'll get a case of halves next week for a coin search and take back the leftovers on the 22nd. image
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • bob48bob48 Posts: 460 ✭✭✭
    I enjoy spending the halfs and dollar coins all the time.
    But I'll do halfs for the rest of the month.
    Bob

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  • dlmtortsdlmtorts Posts: 743 ✭✭✭
    Black smoke, I am glad you asked because I had no clue either. I'm sure there are many others who are in the same boat but won't say it here! The only dumb question is the one you don't ask!
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a nice tribute and idea on that day, of all days, if only as a tribute to the man's life , on that day. of all days. It's been 50 years, after all …. since that day. And of all the days in my life, that particular one stands out more than most any… of all days.

    And ten thousand times, a guy has to remind himself that life goes on. Not that few of us will ever forget, who lived on that day , 50 years ago and remembers.

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  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    I'm really surprised our gov didn't come out with some type of a commemorative for the 50th anniversary. I know they were considering it but evidently more important matters arose. Like Obamacare? Government shutting down? Oh, and girl scout centennials....
    Mint may sell 2014 Kennedy half dollar set

    I would have been all over the 2 coin reverse proof silver set!!!

    At least Ireland did something. Not about his death, but about his "visit".

    50th ann set from Ireland
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    Oh, and I'm so glad I'm not the only one who got the "DUH" award tonight. image
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep.... will spend some Kennedy halves on the 22nd...I remember that day so clearly..was a pipefitter apprentice on a nuclear submarine being built in the New Hampshire shipyard....the USS Nathaniel Greene. Cheers, RickO
  • MilesWaitsMilesWaits Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I too will spend my fair share.


    MIKE MANSFIELD, Majority Leader of the United States Senate

    There was a sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

    There was a wit in a man neither young nor old, but a wit full of an old man's wisdom and of a child's wisdom, and then, in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

    There was a man marked with the scars of his love of country, a body active with the surge of a life far, far from spent and, in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

    There was a father with a little boy, a little girl and a joy of each in the other. In a moment it was no more, and so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands.

    There was a husband who asked much and gave much, and out of the giving and the asking wove with a woman what could not be broken in life, and in a moment it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands, and kissed him and closed the lid of a coffin.

    A piece of each of us died at that moment. Yet, in death he gave of himself to us. He gave us of a good heart from which the laughter came. He gave us of a profound wit, from which a great leadership emerged. He gave us of a kindness and a strength fused into a human courage to seek peace without fear.

    He gave us of his love that we, too, in turn, might give. He gave that we might give of ourselves, that we might give to one another until there would be no room, no room at all, for the bigotry, the hatred, prejudice, and the arrogance which converged in that moment of horror to strike him down.

    In leaving us these gifts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States, leaves with us. Will we take them, Mr. President? Will we have, now, the sense and the responsibility and the courage to take them?

    I pray to God that we shall and under God we will.
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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Sometimes it's better to be thought the fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" >>



    i really like that quote and have used it a few times but i wouldn't have used it in this instance. image
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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm really surprised our gov didn't come out with some type of a commemorative for the 50th anniversary. I know they were considering it but evidently more important matters arose. Like Obamacare? Government shutting down? Oh, and girl scout centennials....
    Mint may sell 2014 Kennedy half dollar set

    I would have been all over the 2 coin reverse proof silver set!!!

    At least Ireland did something. Not about his death, but about his "visit".

    50th ann set from Ireland >>



    The mints tend to do things that "Celebrate" anniversaries, and while we will all be recognizing and remembering the date of Kennedy's assassination, it is not cause for celebration.

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ill have to spend a few myself. good idea.
  • PRECIOUSMENTALPRECIOUSMENTAL Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭
    Good idea, sadly, I don't think too many would understand or care.
    I do have a few dozen unopened 1964 Proof Sets.
    I will give one to each of my kids and step-kids, the kids who understand and appreciate history.
    Again, to use the word 'sadly', I will only be passing several.
    (not 'kids', mid 20's and up).
  • metalmeistermetalmeister Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I used to spend a Clad Kennedy half and buy 3 cups of coffee. Now I spend 3 Clad Kennedys and get one cup of coffee. image
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  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    I wasn't saying it's a reason to "celebrate" by any means. That would be pretty messed up. The US Mint made commemorative proofs for the 10 year anniversary of 9-11 so I would think that the assassination of Kennedy would certainly qualify for one of the top few moments in American history also. Could maybe have set it up to donate a portion of the proceeds to gun shot victims and the families from any of the tragic shootings that have happened. And unfortunately, they're becoming all too common. Sad.
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • blacksmokeblacksmoke Posts: 603
    The 9-11 silver proofs were actually classified as a "medal", not a commemorative. My mistake but not much difference imho.
    Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

    jeff
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,148 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Took a few buckets of change to the Credit Union coin machine today and pulled out the JFKs just because.
    Thanks to this thread I know what to do with them next week.



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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Great idea. I will spend some also. >>



    ...me too........but not the silver ones. image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,666 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Great idea. I will spend some also. >>



    ...me too........but not the silver ones. image >>

    no silver ones here either. image

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