Another day among the dead
This is another sad, sad day. A young man once again his armed himself to the teeth and executed 32 people in classrooms, dormitories and other areas of Virginia Tech, about an hour and some change from where I live. It was like 9-11 all over again for me. Again, I was working and oblivious to everything else when one of the managers in the corporate office conversed with someone near me in a shaken voice "He's all right. My son is all right. He just called me." My ears pricked up but I had no idea what the hell was going on....eventually I made my way to the break room where CNN was broadcasting video footage taken from students' cell phone cameras of gunshots, running, panicked students and exploding windows. No one knows this man, he has no identification on him. He chose to be a John Doe for whatever reason, walked onto an open campus and rained down hell on unsuspecting students. Perhaps this man felt he was a vigilante, trying to right some wrong that had been done to him or someone he loved. Perhaps it was for no reason at all. I'd hate to think it was the latter. If it was, then the world is already the powder keg I believe it to be, who throws in the match only circumstance or fate will tell.