To the Families of Women Lost in the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique Shooting

[redqueen]

My memory of Dec 6, 1989, is that of my mother's placing a call to me in Scotland, screaming: "Sweetheart, they were your age. ...Their mothers, I can't imagine! I'm sick, just sick. ...Love, he killed them because they were women."

She could not finish. My father picked up the line, his voice cracking: "We all want to hold our daughters a little tighter tonight; you're a long way off. Be safe, just be safe."

Tears rolled down my cheeks, as I explained, helplessly, to my university friends what had happened in Canada: how a young man entered Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, separated the men from the women, and began shooting.

Twenty-four years later, I still cannot imagine the sorrow of the victims' families, and I am profoundly sorry. I pray that they remain surrounded by those who care about them, and that they feel the loving arms of a nation.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/kirsty-duncan-/ecole-polytechnique_b_4393082.html

[Tuesday Afternoon]

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[Mnemosyne]

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[smirkymonkey]

3. k&r

What a horrible crime!

[xulamaude]

4. K&R

My daughter is only one reason I continue to hold the feminist line.

There are so many others

[seabeyond]

6. ah, now see. my sons are one of my reasons. nt

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000