The Last Days...




This has been the roughest week of my life. It started off so simple....My parents had just dropped me off at school. Since I hadn't done any work all weekend I knew that I was in for an all nighter since I had a paper and project due in less than 24 hours. I sat up all sunday night into monday morning. I saw the ambulance in front of West AJ, I didnt think of any of it...it's not unusual. But it was unusual... by the time I walked to my first class Ryan Clark was deceased....by the time I ran for cover to my next class my friend Erin Peterson was taking her last breath. In my lifetime I have seen so much tragedy. Living in the Nation's Capitol it is a given, people are after the president and other prominent officials. Before Monday 4/16/07 the most shocking event of my life was seeing the smoke from the Pentagon on 9/11/01. My generation is a shell shocked one, we have had enough. Everyday is becoming our "last" day. The bible fortells "unforseen circumstances" but wearing a bulletproof jacket to class shouldn't be an issue. The question lingers in my mind...How do you wake up, take a shower, head off to class on a gloomy windy monday morning, and have it be your last day? R.I.P. MY 2020 SUITEHEART ERIN NICOLE PETERSON AUGUST 17,1988-APRIL 16,2007

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