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Today's Letters: We remember well

Sad day will pass unnoted at school Story, Feb. 11

This article truly fails to give notice to the real victims of the events that day in 1988 at Pinellas Park High School. Unnoted by whom?

Certainly not my son, who crouched to hide behind an overturned lunch table and witnessed the bullets hitting administrator Richard Allen. He has nightmares today.

Certainly not his friends, whom I came home to find huddled in my family room with looks on their faces and fear in their voices that I can only compare to those of my friends on the day that JFK was murdered.

It certainly does not consider the helplessness of parents, who were not able to protect their children, and a system unprepared to assist.

When I went to a meeting of parents called by the school, I passed a bloodied cafeteria support post.

I remember the day in 1996 that my son announced to me that shooter Jason Harless had been released.

Unnoted? Certainly not by those who live with the memory of it.

Perhaps we should grant this event its due note and talk about it a little more.

Sue Humphreys, Dunedin

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