William Martin:  

I would like to share an IM conversation I had with my daughter today. Please forgive the minimal obsenities I used when mentioning Brenda Spenser, I'm sure I will be forgiven. This is the first time since 1979 I have wrote this down. To set this up there was a school shooting in Germany today near where my daughter lives. I did not know exactly where she went to school and the town where it happend was a possibility. Of course I was terrified until I was able to contact her and no she doesn't attend that school. Last year my son's school in Germany had a shooting where a student took out his teacher, and yes he was there. It would seem that fate likes to torture me with school shootings. Well of course this brought up all the memories of that infamous day at Cleveland in 1979. Bill: Did you happen to notice where the last school shooting in Germany was? : No Bill: COBURG Bill: Christian's school Bill: he was there : ... in 2002? Bill: no 2008. student shot teacher : Really? Oh. 2002 was the biggest shooting. : My friend despina had a friend and a little sister in the school that the shooting was at. I think her friend was shot, but he's alive. And her sister is fine. Bill: It's just too eerie for me. Me and Uncle Dan we present for the first famous school shooting and now they just keep haunting me. Christian last year and this one was too close for comfort : It is pretty eerie. I think it's mostly just a coincidence, though. Bill: yes Bill: me Bill: too Bill: Google Brenda Spencer Bill: used a .22 cal rifle, 2 dead, 11 injured, The dead are Mr. Wragg and Mike the janitor. I remember all of that always but I can't tell you the year : 1979 Bill: I¿m looking at it now, aunt patty knew her from school : Who gives their daughter a gun for their 16th birthday. Bill: lots of people Bill: I don't have a problem with that Bill: but you don't give a whack job a gun Bill: she's eligible for parole again this year Bill: I'd like to attend her parole hearing : That would be interesting. Bill: it would because the families of the deceased and injured will probably be there : Did you know anyone that was killed? Bill: 2, the principal and custodian (janitor) : Oh yeah, I mean, personally. : anyone who was shot? Bill: Principal Wragg visited Uncle Dan in the hospital when he ruptured his kidney, just a couple of months before it happened : D: : I have a friend in Colorado, whose math teacher was in the columbine shooting. Bill: (link deleted) Bill: read (the link) Bill: I was one of those 6th graders guarding the doors, I was the 2nd biggest kid in School so... : Really? Bill: yep Bill: He talks about the principal falling, Uncle Dan must have been standing next to this kid and I saw it from the Office door about 10 feet away : That's so terrifying. Bill: I remember it all like it was yesterday : Tell me all about it. I want to hear your story. If you're fine with it. Bill: I'm definitely fine with it, but it's a long story. Bill: I never remember dates But I remember it was Monday because Brenda Spence was later quoted that one of the reasons she did it was "I don't like Mondays" : By the way, while you're writing. You should download the e-book, "To Give A Boy A Gun" it's basically a First person (I think it was 1st...) point of view of a kid who wants to do a school shooting. It was a pretty good book. Bill: Like the kid in the story you just read me and Danny, he was a 4th grader at the time, got to school early. Oma dropped us off on her way to work. It was pretty darn cold this morning, by San Diego standards anyway, so me and my friend decided to sneak into the office to warm up (I don't remember his name). : Yeah Bill: We weren¿t in there very long when we heard what we thought was a cap gun going off, this is where time begins to stop. the following series of events happened pretty quickly but I now kind of remember it in slow motion. Bill: We could hear a little ruckus outside the office, obviously in response to someone bringing ...Expand for more