Tag: tragedy
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August 02, 2007 02:49 PM EDT --
What's your favorite "tear jerker"? The song that pulls at those heart strings of yours? Share one or more with us and maybe a few lines of it too! Go ahead..make us cry! (not me..I . . . more
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August 22, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
Where were you on January 28, 1986 when the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff.
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December 04, 2007 11:26 AM EST --
Ronda Healy, 28 years old had just finished her shift at TGI Friday at the Shoppes in Millbury, Massachussettes at
Ronda Healy
:00 PM
3:00 . . . more
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December 08, 2007 10:08 PM EST --
I often thought "that could never happen here..." when tragic events happened it the United States. I'd see the images on TV and I'd somehow feel smug and safe.
And then, . . . more
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July 24, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
The damage was like a portrayal
An invitation that said let's skip lunch
And all the plans for conversation
Somehow meant meaningless chords had stuck
In the what if position that prevailed . . . more
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September 06, 2008 04:57 AM EDT --
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"Life's Tragedy is
that we get old to soon
and wise too late."
- Benjamin Franklin
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April 16, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
We got word that there has been a shooting on the VT (Virginia Tech) campus. Lots of folks here have kids there.
22 are dead. 21 are injured. 1 shooter is dead. And many, many hearts . . . more
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July 12, 2007 12:38 AM EDT --
Note: I got the idea for this article after posting a sepia image of tombstones from an old cemetery in the rural country not far from where I live. Some were curious as to the age and such of them, . . . more
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August 02, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
Yesterday as my wife and I watched a parade of gray frigates rotate slowly around Seattle harbor, my son called from over a thousand miles away.
“Did you hear the news?”
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September 22, 2007 11:42 AM EDT --
There are so many but I know a 17 year old that is a worm.
There was a beautiful young man I taught that was deeply in love with a girl. I knew the girl was no good, but you couldn't tell . . . more
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October 21, 2007 10:41 AM EDT --
Me and David had been keeping up with an Amber Alert that was in effect on Friday of a 11 month old baby girl in HArnett Co. only 20 minutes from where we live.It was very sad the grandmother reported . . . more
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June 02, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
So, if you get to the point that you were wondering where I was, here goes nothing.
My brother in law might as well be my brother for how long that I have known him. We've known his family . . . more
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July 27, 2008 04:23 PM EDT --
One person is dead and six others are wounded after a man in his 40's entered Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church in Knoxville this morning. The shooting happened while the children of the church were . . . more
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July 28, 2008 12:49 AM EDT --
It has been a painful year for us in Wilson and Ransomville, NY. On February 26 of this year we lost Tim Kelahan when he was in an automobile accident on way to school. Police said the road . . . more
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April 18, 2007 04:09 AM EDT --
I am wishing for the day before yesterday because then I wouldn't have to hear my mother howl like a wounded animal. She was so angry that she couldn't speak a straight sentence, just sputtered. . . . more
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July 25, 2007 09:44 AM EDT --
For all of those that have been curious about what I’ve been up to…here goes.
Right before 4th of July I failed one of my nursing classes,,,,,,boo hoo. I was very upset at the time but not . . . more
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January 12, 2008 03:33 PM EST --
Today, the small village next to us laid a hero to rest. We were asked by the media as neighbors of the community to join in honoring this very young man by lining the streets as the processional . . . more
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March 31, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
It all began over an argument to steal eggs. It was August 17, 1862 in Minnesota and tensions were nothing new between two distinct cultures living in proximity, but perhaps not in harmony with one another. . . . more
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October 15, 2006 02:19 AM EDT --
President Bush was visiting a primary school. One of the classes was in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meaning. The teacher asked the president if he would like to lead the discussion . . . more
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April 19, 2007 08:49 AM EDT --
For the past few days, I've been captivated by the coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy. This isn't new behavior for me--I'm quite often fascinated by major news events--nor is it new behavior . . . more
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