Dunblane Anniversary

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

27 years ago yesterday, I was an early arrival at Cheltenham and it was a very eerie atmosphere in the bars as most of the TVs were showing News footage of the atrocity (until the racing started).

[Mon Dieu4]

I have a vague recollection of being 16 in a geography class at school and our teacher telling us what had happened, think he had maybe heard it on the radio

[Pretty Boy]

Always remember going to visit my granny that day and her being in tears watching the news. That's when I first heard about it.

Saw a couple of posts about it on social media over the last couple of days and it still makes me well up thinking about it. My daughter is almost the same age as those poor bairns and that definitely hammers it home more for me personally.

I was in halls at Aberden Uni with a guy who was in the school at the time, he only mentioned it once when he had far too much to drink and you knew it still haunted him.

[archie]

I don't think you can underestimate the positive impact Andy Murray has had in having Dunblane remembered for something else. He tweeted his love for the town today.

[marinello59]

I was driving over on the West Coast when the news broke, pretty sure it was on Chris Evans breakfast show. I had to pull over, I don’t think any other news story has come close to upsetting me as much as that one did.

[hibee_girl]

I was in P6 and just remember our teacher breaking down in tears in the classroom. We didn’t find out what had happened until we got out of school.

You just can’t even imagine sending your child to school for them not to come home.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

27 years ago yesterday, I was an early arrival at Cheltenham and it was a very eerie atmosphere in the bars as most of the TVs were showing News footage of the atrocity (until the racing started).

34th anniversary of Hillsborough next month too, quite scary how quickly time goes by.

[McD]

I remember there being a strange feel around the high school, but none of us knew, the teachers did but didn’t say anything. None of us listened to the news or anything like that, so we could sense something but didn’t know what.

when we all went home, that’s when we found out, for the next few days there was a tension and sadness in the air, and very quickly changes started across the buildings. To begin with, every door and adult clamped down upon, I went to a community high school so there was often adults in the school that weren’t staff, we hardly gave it a thought until that day. Every student had to enter and leave through 1 door for a time. Teachers tasked with patrolling the halls until things like magnetically sealed doors were introduced.

the sadness, and quiet conversations about how that could have been us, or our siblings still in primary school. One of those moments in your life when you remember when you heard, and one where your childhood is irreparably changed, the horrible realities of adulthood intrude, and almost always driven by humans rather than nature.

[He's here!]

Along with Lockerbie (just before Christmas 1988), it's an event/atrocity in Scottish history (to have take place in my lifetime) where everyone remembers where they were when they heard about it.

[He's here!]

Always remember going to visit my granny that day and her being in tears watching the news. That's when I first heard about it.

Saw a couple of posts about it on social media over the last couple of days and it still makes me well up thinking about it. My daughter is almost the same age as those poor bairns and that definitely hammers it home more for me personally.

I was in halls at Aberden Uni with a guy who was in the school at the time, he only mentioned it once when he had far too much to drink and you knew it still haunted him.

If you've ever seen Andy and Jamie Murray interviewed about it you can see the lifelong scar it's inflicted on them.

[21.05.2016]

The most unimaginable act of pure evil. Absolutely frightening how close to home it was.