Post by Vash, the Angel's Moon on Dec 17, 2012 1:45:20 GMT -5
Okay. A while ago, I got yelled at for posting 'depressing' on CR. Well, right now, I don't give a shit about that.
I wanted to... talk a little bit. Rant a little bit. And ask, a little bit, for everybody's remembrance.
I live in CT.
I'm sure you all know about the Newtown shooting... but in case you don't, here are the facts.
Twenty Connecticut first graders, six teachers, the shoot's mother, and the shooter died on Friday in the second most deadly school shooting in the history of the United States after the Virginia Tech massacre.
History was made on Friday, marking the second time in my lifetime when I was really conscious of a history-altering event. The first time was 9/11/2001. I'm not comparing the scale of the two events, and maybe even the impact on the country is not the same, but they're worth noting because of that significance.
This one almost had a greater impact on me. I'm no eight-year-old, but I'm still incapable of understanding. And I live in CT. Even greater, CT is a state so small that you can start at one end and if you drove for three hours you'd be out the other side depending on how you did it. The school is probably no more than an hour and a half away from my house.
And... even worse... these were little kids. Only twenty, but they were six and seven years old.
I guess I want to have a memorial here, as well. This happened. The world knows it happened. So I don't need to remind people but maybe I do. I dunno.
But I want you to read this and remember, for a moment, the 20 little children who were taken from this world unjustly. I want us all to bow our heads and, if not pray, at least remember. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, Agnostic, Atheistic, this goes beyond religion and into a basic human right.
Life. And these children were cut down before theirs had even begun. They hadn't even written their prologue yet. Hadn't started their first chapter.
Let's remember our own first grade, or whatever equivalent you went through in your far reaches of the world. What we were like back then.
And then... in the wake of such tragic death... let's remember the good things. Pay tribute to tragedy and then remember.
You can respond to this thread with anything you want. Derisive comments about my 'dredging up darkness', or stories of your own personal tragedies, maybe even stories of your own personal triumphs or memories of being a stupid kid. Poems or prose about the events or your response... even just recollections of your finding out or personal experience with the event if you have any.
Let's take this thread and make it into something. I don't know if we'd ever do anything with it. But I want to do some kind of positive tribute or something, something to say "They were here, this happened, bad things happened, but good can go on." Let's drive out the darkness, if only for a few minutes, an hour, a day.
And most importantly... let's do it for the victims, for them. In remembrance of them.
I wanted to... talk a little bit. Rant a little bit. And ask, a little bit, for everybody's remembrance.
I live in CT.
I'm sure you all know about the Newtown shooting... but in case you don't, here are the facts.
Twenty Connecticut first graders, six teachers, the shoot's mother, and the shooter died on Friday in the second most deadly school shooting in the history of the United States after the Virginia Tech massacre.
History was made on Friday, marking the second time in my lifetime when I was really conscious of a history-altering event. The first time was 9/11/2001. I'm not comparing the scale of the two events, and maybe even the impact on the country is not the same, but they're worth noting because of that significance.
This one almost had a greater impact on me. I'm no eight-year-old, but I'm still incapable of understanding. And I live in CT. Even greater, CT is a state so small that you can start at one end and if you drove for three hours you'd be out the other side depending on how you did it. The school is probably no more than an hour and a half away from my house.
And... even worse... these were little kids. Only twenty, but they were six and seven years old.
I guess I want to have a memorial here, as well. This happened. The world knows it happened. So I don't need to remind people but maybe I do. I dunno.
But I want you to read this and remember, for a moment, the 20 little children who were taken from this world unjustly. I want us all to bow our heads and, if not pray, at least remember. Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, Agnostic, Atheistic, this goes beyond religion and into a basic human right.
Life. And these children were cut down before theirs had even begun. They hadn't even written their prologue yet. Hadn't started their first chapter.
Let's remember our own first grade, or whatever equivalent you went through in your far reaches of the world. What we were like back then.
And then... in the wake of such tragic death... let's remember the good things. Pay tribute to tragedy and then remember.
You can respond to this thread with anything you want. Derisive comments about my 'dredging up darkness', or stories of your own personal tragedies, maybe even stories of your own personal triumphs or memories of being a stupid kid. Poems or prose about the events or your response... even just recollections of your finding out or personal experience with the event if you have any.
Let's take this thread and make it into something. I don't know if we'd ever do anything with it. But I want to do some kind of positive tribute or something, something to say "They were here, this happened, bad things happened, but good can go on." Let's drive out the darkness, if only for a few minutes, an hour, a day.
And most importantly... let's do it for the victims, for them. In remembrance of them.
