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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (1218)	5/3/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: Peach	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 7442

Blue, Joe, Joan, Carolyn, All, This weekend my brother called me and carefully (so as not to upset me) relayed what happened in his small Texas town last week. Someone in an internet chat room said that my brother's little town would be the next town where school kids would be blown up. The next day the school my little 10 year old niece attends was overcome with the FBI, police, and bomb sniffing dogs. My sister-in-law also teaches at that school. The school was locked, the kids had to line up and enter one at a time. Each classroom was locked and the kids had to repeat the line up and entering the classroom one at a time. Each kid was required to WEAR their backpacks all day -- never allowed to put them down! Nothing was found in the school. That night neither my niece nor my sister-in-law could sleep. My little niece would try to watch TV, then burst into tears. My brother finally got her to talk about it. She and her third grade classmates believed that there were three gunmen at the Colorado school, one had escaped, and was going to kill all the kids at my niece's school. My brother talked to her a long time, but doesn't know if she is comforted yet. I am heartsick that a little 10 year old girl has to experience such insanity. Sorry, I just needed to vent my frustration. Yer pal, Norma