HI ALL!! The knee is OK I can still walk.

    "    I shout out, Who killed the Kennedys?, when after all it was you and me, let me please introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste    "    Well I remember the day I hurt my knee playing Steal the Flag. I was in the 4th grade Thomas Jefferson Elementary, Richland, Washington. We use to play steal the flag almost every time we went to recess. Usually mixing up the teams from day to day. On this particular day during our first recess we divided up teams that were the same from the day before. A day in which my team was defeated SOUNDLY twice. Some where in our huddle before the start we decided to unleash a new tactic. The more than one attack. The idea was to confuse the other team by sending 4 or 5 players to get the flag. So we started, 2 players on each side of the boundaries, 2 players up the middle, and then 2 more from random spots. All attacking at the same time. One player was designated to go to the 'jail' and release our captured players, all the rest would head towards the flag. And off we went, I am not sure how the other attackers fared. I started towards the flag and was being chased by one of the enemy. To avoid being 'tagged' I went into a baseball slide. As I went to the ground my knee hit the metal cap of the sprinkler pipe. Now back in those days the underground sprinkler system was metal pipes, and when they go to the surface there was a heavy metal cap over the pipe. When the watered they would lift the cap and push a metal sprinkler, or hose connector into the pipe in the ground, the system worked great, but it really hurt when ever you hit the cap. I don't remember much after that, I know my knee really hurt, and I had to struggle to get up and back across the center line to safety. About that time recess was over, one of the teachers aid had saw my injury and took me to the nurses room to get cleaned up and bandage or something to stop the bleeding. When that was done I returned to my classroom. When I walked in the kids were crying? I said ' No, No, I am OK I will be just fine, it's OK'. Then I saw the TV was on, and thought the TV is NEVER on. I started to watch. What did I see? How do I remember so clearly my knee injury? Well it happened 50 years ago TODAY!! Yes the kids were crying over the assassination of President Kennedy!  CHOW MOI!!