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To: Rambi who wrote (22870)	4/20/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: jpmac	Respond to of 71178

Thanks, darlin'. I did find a smile thanks to friends here and at DAR too. Back at ya and the boys. I love our kids. Don't you? I know the answer to that.

To: Rambi who wrote (22870)	4/21/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Yesterday's events are deeply disturbing. Even more so as it brings back the memories of the other shootings over the past several years that, sadly, are no longer shocking. Our local school board met last night and voted to arm all of the district's security officers. How is that going to stop something like this from happening? My oldest kid starts kindergarten next year and the image that keeps coming to mind is him asking why the man who opens the doors in the morning is carrying a gun. I can't stand it. We're going to enroll him in a parochial school and one of the reasons is because we are not confident of his safety in the public schools. Schools are supposed to be safe. Especially the ones where these tragic incidents have occurred. Schools in middle class suburbs, rural areas, seemingly upscale communities. We always used to think that something like this could only happen in the inner city. I remember reading about kids attacking teachers in Chicago schools and thinking it's a good thing we don't live there. I remember being saddened 13 or 14 years ago when a promising young basketball player, Behn Wilson, was gunned down in Chicago down the street from his high school for no apparent reason. But always thinking that something like that was an inner city issue. But these events have hit close to home. Jonesboro, Arkansas isn't too far from where we live. My inlaws live near another school where something like this happened. These are sad times indeed. And here the administration is, thinking that dropping a few bombs will solve an ethnic problem in the Balkans that has existed for the better part of 600 years. When will we learn? Yes the atrocities are horrifying. But in one sense, we're the ones responsible because we were so gung-ho on breaking up Yugoslavia and ending Communism there. But you know what? There are some places in the world where freedom isn't necessarily a good thing. The Balkans is one of those places. It is ironic that a conflict in the Balkans got the 20th Century off to a roaring start and now we get to end the century the same way it started.