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the 'fog of war' transforms into the 'fog of school massacre'

David Maraniss of the Washington Post gives us a true impression of what actually happened at Virginia Tech.

Snip...

"...Perkins and two classmates, Derek O'Dell and Katelyn Carney, ran up to the door and put their feet against it to make sure he could not get back in. They would have used a heavy table, but there were none, and the desks weren't strong enough.

Soon the gunman tried to get back in. The three students pressed against the door with their arms and legs, straining with their lives at stake. Unable to budge the door, the gunman shot through it four times. Splinters flew from the thick wood. The gunman turned away, again. There were more pops, but each one a bit farther away as he moved down the hall. The scene in the classroom "was brutal," Perkins recalled. Most of the students were dead. He saw a few who were bleeding but conscious and tried to save them. He took off his gray hoodie sweat shirt and wrapped it around a male student's leg."

End Snip.

I wonder if I will wake up tommorow to see Mr. Perkins on the front of the newspaper or on NBC being lauded properly and publically as a hero and an example to others in society.

I wonder why I have to wonder.

Posted @ April 19, 2007 02:30 PM | Current Events

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