Branch Davidians, Waco TX - 19 April, 1993
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City OK - 19 April, 1995
Columbine High School, Colu - 20 April, 1999
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA - 16 April 2007
and now American Civic Association, Binghamton NY - 3 April 2009
These events, and these types of events, were not at all what T.S. Eliot had in mind when he wrote the opening words of The Waste Land, but I can't help thinking of those words each year when April rolls around.
April is the month of my birth, as well as my friends Laurel and Geri, and is a wonderful time of the year as spring makes its entrance. But since 1993, it has also been a time of sadness. Too many times in the month of April, we learn of tremendous acts of violence and we are left asking "why?"
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
- The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922
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