The headlines have been overpowering this week with tragedy...you have the Boston Marathon Massacre, you have a fertilizer plan explosion, you have partisan bickering and Obama shaming proponents of Second Amendment rights. You have anniversaries of April events like the Virginia Tech shooting and Columbine and the Oklahoma City bombing. Mid-April has been a remarkable time of national tragedy.
Twenty years ago tomorrow, I learned that Star was going to close. With any luck, as raging thunderstorms curse the midwest, I'll be with a friend tomorrow in Chicago. I remember April 19, 1993 like it was yesterday, and it's never been a favorite date of mine ever. But others mark this time as even more tragic.
You pray for the families and friends of those who lost their lives this week, in 2013 or in 1995 or 2007 or another year. And you hope that this week will bring peace, eventually, and justice. But it's a burden of memory that will never go away, will always exist, and will always be remembered.
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