Wow, more sadness in the world.

[Denninmi]

Such pain makes my petty problems look ... Petty.

Saying a prayer for the victims.

And I'm going to shelter in the Lounge, not going near GD, LBN, or Meta.

[texanwitch]

1. I didn't even knew it happened until I turned on DU.

I am watching the President cry.

I don't understand things like this.

[In_The_Wind]

2. It's hard to understand why people flip out, causing pain to everyone.

[Denninmi]

3. Well, I know all about the flipping out part,

But I would never harm another person.

[Tobin S.]

4. I'm going to post about this in the MHSG

I think I know how it can be justified in an insane mind. As much as I advocate for the mentally ill, and as much as I'd like to think that such an event does not necessarily require insanity, in reality I see no other possibility.

[In_The_Wind]

6. I also know about flipping out.

Like you ~ I wouldn't harm another living creature.

[datasuspect]

5. it just confirms that

i will stick close to my kinfolk and my friends.

god bless all them babies.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Hold your babies close.

[texanwitch]

8. I always try to give people I know a hug.

You never know what might happen, not now anymore.

Poor little kids, their family and friends.

I don't really know what to say about this.

It is just beyound sad.

[In_The_Wind]

9. You're 100% right.

Over the years I've noticed more killings around the holidays.
We've tried to keep a low profile since there was a shooting in our local shopping mall.

But this is unimaginable, just horrible.

[texanwitch]

10. Why little kids.

Will the other kids in the school ever feel safe.

[In_The_Wind]

11. Unfortunately, children everywhere will feel the effects of today's tragedy.

Not only children but most of us be bothered by this forever.





Do you remember how children started saying "If I grow up" instead of "When I grow up" after the 2004 broadcast of The Day After Tomorrow?

[texanwitch]

12. I remember the Cuban Missle Crisis when I was a little kid, like it was yesterday.

We were brought in to the lunch room and told to go home quickly and stay there.

I really didn't understand at that age all what was going on but the Principal scared the hell out us.

We walked home looking at the sky for Russian bombers to fly over.

We were scared little kids.

The little kids at the school will remember this.

[nolabear]

13. I used to have a repetitive nightmare when I was a kid.

I'd be at a game show, the old Truth or Consequences. Somewhere in the dream a table would roll out onto the stage with a telephone on it. I would become terrified. The phone would ring and the host would pick it up, turn toward me wherever I happened to be, and say "It's for you," and an incredible, awful siren sound would come from the phone, scaring me so badly I'd wake up in fear.

Took me until I was in therapy in my 40s to suddenly recall that we were on a SAC base during the Missile Crisis, and that sometimes a siren we could all hear would go off, and soon thereafter the phone would ring calling my father to go on alert. We never knew if they'd launched or he was flying or just at the ready or what. I don't remember being afraid, but those dreams certainly spoke volumes.

Little kids internalize things in many ways. I hope those little ones are getting all the care possible to help them.

[texanwitch]

14. That had to be scary.

I will never forgive the principal for scaring us so bad.

Most of us really didn't know what was going on, maybe the
older kids in 5th or 6th grade.

We thought we were going to die.

All the air raid drills didn't help any either.

On Fridays about noon or so a air raid siren would go off somewhere in downtown Houston.

These little kids will need help even if they don't know it yet.