I wrote about three fatalities that I witnessed back on August 15, 1994. You can read my thoughts Here.
At the time I wrote that article, I tried to find the LA Times follow up article that was printed 2 days later and I could not find it. The other day I was organizing my desk and what popped to the top of my drawer that has clippings and cards and stuff in it?
The hard copy of the article.
I haven't seen it for at least a decade, but there it was. With the article in hand I was able to search for the online LA Times Article. Click it to read, if you are interested.
Photo Credit:
Boris Yaro, Los Angeles Times
Does that name sound familiar?
The photographer who took the
photo of the three women crossing
the tracks 2 days later is, the
photographer who took the famous
photograph of Bobby Kennedy,
after he was shot in the
Ambassador Hotel Kitchen in 1968.
How tragic!
ReplyDeleteI read your earlier post and the article. I was interested in your comment from your earlier post and your associated anger, which I totally understand. Yet I wonder how that is tempered by knowing that maybe the mother was just overwhelmed and it all happened so fast. Who knows.
PTSD. I understand this, but for other reasons. It takes a long, long time.
Thank you for sharing this Angel. God bless you.
I deliberately did not read my post again, because I felt that it had a right to be there, unchanged by me. Once you read the story of the people who's lives changed that day, I am sure my post may seem a bit harsh, but it was true to my feelings, a year or so ago.
ReplyDeleteI can still see them, so clearly, all these years later and sometimes I pray for them. Especially as August 15th comes around, once more.
Thank you Fran.
Oh my, I hope that I did not sound like I was admonishing you. Anything but - I think anger is a normal reaction to a lot of things. What you wrote makes perfect sense. I can remember being angry with my mother for dying, for example... makes no sense, but feelings don't always make sense.
ReplyDeleteYour prayers are things of beauty and that you can see them - well, hard as that may be, makes the prayer even more poignant.
No worries Fran. I understand.
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