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THAT DAY, 27 years ago when John Lennon was murdered remains as vividly sureal to me, as THAT DAY when JFK was murdered too.

John Lennon would have turned 67 on October 9, 2007. Although he hasn't spoken in 27 years, he has never been silenced.

At the age of 12, in the summer of 1966, inspired by John Lennon’s honesty, I tuned out the Catholic Church.

Up until I was about six years old, every Sunday morning was spent in a glass-encased room at St. Bernard’s one holy Roman Catholic Church, in Levittown, Long Island. The glass-encased room was called, and literally was, the Cry Room. Growing up with television, it was natural for me to stand up close against the soundproof glass and watch the show on the other side. Every so often, I’d hear the priest’s voice filter through the loudspeaker above my head. But it was all Latin to me: and back then, it really was!