An Anniversary of Evil

I was eating lunch with some of my friends yesterday (Thursday afternoon), when the principal made an announcement over the loudspeaker: “All students, please grab your belongings and evacuate to the middle school immediately.” Within minutes, the entire student body had walked to the middle school, as we all waited anxiously to found out what could possibly be going on. We found out we had received a bomb threat- someone wrote some type of threatening messaging somewhere on school property. We were told that the bomb squad was checking the school, and we’d be returning shortly.

Not quite so.

Around a half hour later, we were told we were being dismissed. There was too much at stake to allow us to return back to school. Cheering erupted, naturally, and my friends and I immediately dashed to my friend’s car to take advantage of our day off. Yet, singing along to the radio suddenly did not seem to be the antidote to my suppressed feelings. Personally, I was enraged. I was embarrassed. I was beyond confused. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, who actually had the sick mind to threaten our school like this? Better yet, in the wake of the April 16^th Virginia Tech massacre, the anniversary of the April 19^th, 1995 Oklahoma City bombings and the anniversary of the April 20^th, 1999Columbine shootings, who would be so spiteful, so insidious, so depraved, to disrespect such tragedies like this? School should be a haven away from the dangers of the outside world, and suddenly this place seems more formidable than ever.                           

Now, here I am on a Friday morning writing this. School was canceled, as a result of the combination of the bomb threats, the VA Tech massacre, and the anniversary of the Columbine shootings. My teachers’ schedules have been thrown off entirely, senior photos for next year’s yearbook were canceled (we were supposed to have them today), and our holiday vacations have been shortened. And even these aspects seem trivial when we think about the larger picture- the entire notion of how corrupt and sick-minded some people can be. Additional sleep was nice, but the additional reminder of how sinister some people are was not.

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