Bringing Down The Schoolhouse
In other news related to religious folks and buildings be torn down, here we have the latest chapter in the recent tragic Amish school shooting. And you know, I think it’s beyond tragedy at this point. I mean, the fact that it happened, the Westboro Baptist Church folks pouring salt on the wounds of the community, and now it looks like it gets even more tragic. In order to rid themselves of the memory of the event, the Lancaster county of Pennsylvania has decided to knock the schoolhouse down:
NICKEL MINES, Pa. — Ten days after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment tore down the bloodstained building Thursday and obliterated nearly all traces of the place where five girls were killed.
Only a bare patch of earth was left behind, and it was planted with grass seed, so that eventually even the footprint of the one-room schoolhouse will be gone, too.
Any kind of plaque or memorial is unlikely. Members of the plain-living Amish community said it would be too showy and would attract too many visitors.
"They do not want to make it a tourist attraction," said the 27-year-old brother of two of the 15 boys sent out of the schoolhouse by the gunman before the shooting.
"It's definitely a little heart-wrenching to see it go down, but it sort of finishes things off," said the Amish man, who like most members of the community did not want to be identified in any news accounts.
The Amish are known for constructing buildings by hand, without the aid of modern technology, but for this job they arranged for private contractors with heavy equipment to end a painful chapter for their community.
It also finishes off the jobs of the teachers and faculty members and everyone else that worked there. I know the Amish community grieves their loss, and so do I, but the reason why the Columbine High School is still standing is because life has to go on. No, it’s not good to make it a tourist attraction, even though outsiders might turn it into one, but aren’t they bringing extra grief on the school workers by saying that they can’t work there anymore? I wouldn’t want to, but I don’t speak for them.
Well, it’s not my decision to make. Poor people, though.
NICKEL MINES, Pa. — Ten days after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment tore down the bloodstained building Thursday and obliterated nearly all traces of the place where five girls were killed.
Only a bare patch of earth was left behind, and it was planted with grass seed, so that eventually even the footprint of the one-room schoolhouse will be gone, too.
Any kind of plaque or memorial is unlikely. Members of the plain-living Amish community said it would be too showy and would attract too many visitors.
"They do not want to make it a tourist attraction," said the 27-year-old brother of two of the 15 boys sent out of the schoolhouse by the gunman before the shooting.
"It's definitely a little heart-wrenching to see it go down, but it sort of finishes things off," said the Amish man, who like most members of the community did not want to be identified in any news accounts.
The Amish are known for constructing buildings by hand, without the aid of modern technology, but for this job they arranged for private contractors with heavy equipment to end a painful chapter for their community.
It also finishes off the jobs of the teachers and faculty members and everyone else that worked there. I know the Amish community grieves their loss, and so do I, but the reason why the Columbine High School is still standing is because life has to go on. No, it’s not good to make it a tourist attraction, even though outsiders might turn it into one, but aren’t they bringing extra grief on the school workers by saying that they can’t work there anymore? I wouldn’t want to, but I don’t speak for them.
Well, it’s not my decision to make. Poor people, though.
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