At 12:31 pm, Central Standard Time, on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, something was stolen from the American people and indeed from the world. The one thing that was engraved in the collective souls and hearts of this great country was its innocence. The bullet that came out of an assassin's rifle and who shot it and where it came from is just smoke and mirrors, the background scenario for the real unresolved issues. What did JFK's death mean for the country? People across the country and around the world were shocked and deeply saddened, because they knew at that moment that the beauty and glory of “Camelot” was gone. Theodore Sorensen is quoted as saying, “Countless people have noted that the president's death has affected them even more deeply than the death of their own parents. The reason they believe is that the latter situation very often represented a loss of the past – while the assassination of President Kennedy represented an incalculable loss of the future. he is not afraid of greatness: some are born great, others achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born great, achieved greatness, and greatness was thrust upon him throughout his privileged but eventful life. JFK was young, handsome, charismatic and wealthy. He studied at top institutions of higher learning, including Harvard. As a young man he was a quiet athlete. She played football, golf, softball and was on the Harvard Varsity Swim team. He was an accomplished writer, including a Pulitzer Prize for his book titled Profiles in Courage. He was a hero in the Navy during World War II and served as a congressman... middle of paper... thanks to his immortality and his legacy that will live on for another fifty years and quite possibly the rest of our recorded history. We lost and continued to lose after his death. He is gone, but his legacy lives on as it is. What we have lost can never be calculated, it is immeasurable and has contaminated the threads that weave the very fabric of our lives. To summarize the theory woven into this article is best summarized by JFK himself. “A nation reveals itself not only through the men it produces, but also through the men it honors, the men it remembers.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery under the “Eternal Flame”. That flame that burns for eternity is the representation of an extinguished light, and has been rekindled to burn bright in the collective consciousness of this country and the world. This is his legacy. One dissatisfied.