On our way home we stopped in England to visit Runnymede, the famous battlefield where the British people forced King John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. The document was the precursor to our own Constitution. The British considered it the perfect spot to honor America’s slain president. Queen Elizabeth, the following year, would lay a stone monument at the center of Britain’s most hallowed soil, declaring on a plaque, “This acre of English ground was given to the United States of America by the people of Britain in memory of John F. Kennedy.” The ceremony somehow reminded me of Camelot.
