Alternate post title: When Life Isn’t<\/i><\/p>\n
First, the story:<\/p>\n
The Charles Manson follower convicted of trying to assassinate President Gerald Ford was released Friday from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars, a prison official said.<\/p>\n
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was just 26 years old when she pointed a semiautomatic .45- caliber pistol at Ford in September 1975 in Sacramento, Calif. Secret Service agents grabbed her and Ford was unhurt.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
Fromme, who got a life term, became the first person sentenced under a special federal law covering assaults on U.S. presidents, a statute enacted after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
(I remember both Ford assassination attempts, by the way.)<\/p>\n
Anyhow, so she was sentenced to a life term, served a few years over 30, and is now free.<\/p>\n
For quite a while in America, life<\/i> hasn’t meant what it’s supposed to mean. (When does<\/u> life end?!)<\/p>\n
Which begs a question with an entirely different point: What do you<\/u> know about real life and real living?<\/b><\/p>\n
Source:<\/i> The Oregonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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