This is not apropos of anything, but I am shaken and must write. To all I offend by this, please forgive.

Thirteen years ago, when my elder two kids were in 4th and 1st grade, a mad gunwoman entered their school and began firing. Several were injured, many of whom I came to know in the next years, and one child ... an 8-year old boy, a friend of my daughter's ... was killed.

I have just now received a report that five schoolboys in Israel were murdered (more than 20 injured) when a lone terrorist infiltrated their school).

and all the memories have come flooding back.

I apologize; I should not have put this on the board. Thank you for your tolerance, and for your warm thoughts.

Ken