Virginia Tech
Still in shock over this. Praying hard.
A little over ten years ago there was a shooting at the middle school where my daughter will attend...it sits adjacent to the elementary school that she attends now. A former student (an adult) entered the school during school hours and began shooting. He killed one staff member and wounded several others. One of the things my daughter has learned in the first grade is what she is supposed to do if this type of thing happens again. They practice ducking against a wall while the teacher takes her position closer to the door. I never had to worry about this type of thing when I was a child, it makes me sad that my children do...
posted by lutheranmom @ 10:01 AM
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That has GOT to be scary. It really is amazing (and not always in a positive way) about how things change. Peace be with you this day (and every day).
It is very sad.
Yes, it does make me wonder what kind of world my grand kids will grow up in.
But we weren't without our fears when we were children, in the 50's. We had our ID bracelets, in case we got separated from our parents during a bomb attack from the USSR or an evacuation of the city. And we had fire drills and air raid drills. During air raid drills, we went into the hallways and put our arms over our heads, facing the wall, or squatted down along the wall with our arms over our heads.
And people built bomb shelters and learned how to take care of food after a nuclear bomb attack.
But the big difference is that that was mostly theory, not experiencing the real thing on TV.
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