I really think you need to think about this selection in comparison to the rest of your events.

It was an event that, like quite a few very similar events before it, were a huge tragedy, but really only affected a small handful of people (tens of thousands possibly had a connection to it, and maybe 2-3 thousand were directly affected by it.) It was an event, jsut by the ferocity and surprise of it, that a ratings starved media jumped on and made a national crisis. It wasn't. It was a local event. I even helped review some of the Policy and Procedures for Tactical EMS in the wake of this event, and we realized how "minor" this event was in comparison to other major crisis, like Oklahoma City (both the Bombing and the tornado), 9/11, and other such events.

Yes It was a horrible thing, and yes people died, but, looking at other things on that list, I would hardly consider it a "historical Event".

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well i posted it because as I said some things affect some people more than others. but I would have to say that everyone in the country remembers where they were that day, not just 10,000. to me thats a big event

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Columbine means more to people like me that adults at the time. I was a sophomore in high school and it was 4/20, so I was smoking pot and drinking at a friend's house after school. All hell broke loose and the metal detector/prison age of education began in Chicago Public Schools, so I'll never forget that.

We even had a 5 hour schoolwide search of the whole student body including bags and patdowns of everyone as they walkied into school. People were violated and a lawsuit was filed against the principal- the petioners were the Student Council and Local School Council. The CPS isn't centralized like other schools. It's regionalized and every region gives every principal certain freedoms and she calle dthe people and requested the search. She was "forced to resign" and the suit was dropped and individuals filed suits.

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