When my mom first got cranking on the forwards, I would check out some of the more egregious ones through Snopes and the like, and then send the links back to her -- proving they were bunk.
A while later she just started adding -- SNOPES SAYS IT'S TRUE!! to the body of all of her forwards regardless of the content. I keep waiting for the Snopes people to have her arrested for fraud -- then I'd have to bail her out.
But hey, she's bailed me out enough times over the years -- the least I can do is to return the favor.
Man, I remember seeing this broadcast live at the time. I remember it looking a lot clearer on my parent's 25 inch Zenith. The magic of time and memories.
My high school's flag was the flag of the confederate, and the school song was "Dixie". What was smug indifference then has long turned into wonderment on how I could have been so stupidly naive and ignorant.
But then, isn't that what racism is? Those days will never come back for me, but I'm not too sure about my grandchildren.