Dunblane school massacre anniversary
Five years ago today Thomas Hamilton walked onto the campus of Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, Scotland (near Stirling) and opened fire on a class of five and six year olds. He shot and killed sixteen children and their teacher, and injured fourteen other children and three other adults. The act was so monstrous that at one point he walked in a semi-circle around a group of children on the floor (they had either been disabled or thrown down) and systematically fired 16 shots down at them from point-blank range. The actions of the school staff, police, and medical personnel in response were truly heroic, but of course could not undo the atrocity. I am wearing a black armband today in memory of the children who would have been ten or eleven years of age today:
Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale
Emma Elizabeth Crozier
Melissa Helen Currie
Charlotte Louise Dunn
Kevin Allan Hasell
Ross William Irvine
David Charles Kerr
Mhairi Isabel MacBeath
Brett McKinnon
Abigail Joanne McLennan
Emily Morton
Sophie Jane Lockwood North
John Petrie
Joanna Caroline Ross
Hannah Louise Scott
Megan Turner
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April 10th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Peace be with you all.
Rest forever.
And play always in your eternal youth.
Goodnight
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August 9th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I am 16 years of age.
On Wednesday the 13th March 1991, I turned 5 years old.
These children that were shot and killed were my own age.
Ever since that day i have not forgotten any one of them. Every year on my birthday i light a candle in their memory. It is something that has stayed with me and will stay with me for the rest of my life.
It could have been us.
On my 5th Birthday, a girl my age, with the same name as me, wo even looked a little like me, was shot and killed in cold blood
You’ll all be remembered forever
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wasted lives.