Each January, NASA holds a solemn ceremony to honor the astronauts lost during the Apollo I fire, the Challenger explosion, and the Columbia disaster.
The fact that these tragedies occurred within a week of themselves on the calendar (although in different years) is a coincidence, but in a rather poetic way, does make the remembrance easier when all can be mourned at the same time.
With that concept in mind, I would like to offer the week of April 16 – 22 as Loss and Remembrance Week – a time when we as a nation think back on the harm, loss, and tragedy that anger has done to our country and its citizens.
Loss and Remembrance Week would be a solemn time to remember those taken away and affected by the shootings at Virginia Tech (April 16), the siege at Waco (April 19), the bombing in Oklahoma City (April 19), and the shootings at Columbine High School (April 20).
We can’t bring them back, but we can remember.
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