# (1) 15 Apr 2007, 09:27AM: MC Masala(s) on O'Neill, Past, and Atrocity:
A short version and a longer version, which makes more sense, of my column this week.
Another April atrocity that I know about: April 13, 1919, the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. In the north Indian city of Amritsar, in retaliation for protests a few days earlier, the British opened fire on hundreds, if not thousands, of unarmed Indians who were celebrating a religious festival.
April 19, 1995, was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. I was alive for that one. I was in rehearsal for my school's spring musical, "Oklahoma!" No, I am not kidding. We put a donation box in the lobby and awkwardly carried on.
- Comments:
Posted by Julia at 15 Apr 2007, 02:35PM
My high school also did Oklahoma! that spring. Like you, we put out a donation box (because it was far too late to change plays) and ended up raising a few thousand dollars. I would like to believe that even as massive amounts of violece happen again and again, so do massive amounts of human kindness.
