This week has been filled with tragedy. Not just in 2007, but for several years. It amazing how two single events have led to a whole bunch of events.
Adolf Hitler was Born April 20, 1939. Several years later he managed to orchestrate the killing of 6 million Jewish people.
This event led to 12 students, 1 teacher and 2 terrorists being killed on April 20, 1999 in Columbine, Colorado as the terrorists celebrated Hitler's birthday.
This tragic event led to a psychotic killer killing between 31-33 people (I love how CNN & Fox differ on numbers) in Virgina.
That alone would be a very bloody week in April. But this week is also sees the anniversary of two other horrific events. Sadly they were on the same day. On April 19 1993 86 people in Waco, Texas were killed during an exchange with federal agents. Their leader, David Koresh, had a warrant out for his arrest at the beginning of the experience, 51 days prior to the April 19th blood bath.
2 years later, on April 19th 1995, Timothy McVeigh used the Waco Texas events as an excuse to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He then waited 4 days and celebrated his 27th birthday on April 23.
This really is a bad week in history.
Conversations with my body in the first trimester of pregnancy
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1. Body/morning sickness: Hey.
Katie: Oh, no.
B: HEY! Heeeyyyy, are we at Stake Conference? (a church meeting- this was
at a Saturday evening session)
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11 months ago
Spring fever?
ReplyDeletePossibly. Long winters lead to desperate actions, maybe.
ReplyDeleteI need to add two points on Hitler. April 20 is also the day he got married and the day he committed suicide. Those last two events happened 5 hours apart from each other. Killing 6 million jews didn't trouble him but getting married drove him to suicide on April 20. Interesting.
I think there's something to the Spring Fever thing, though. This was actually one of the first things i thought of when i heard about the VTshootings.
ReplyDeletePeople have sat inside through a depressing, dark, long winter when spring begins to tease. With bulbs popping up the daffodils and tulips, mixed with looming snow/rain clouds it becomes too much and people snap.