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UNITED STATESAmish schoolhouse torn down More than a week after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment on Oct. 12 tore down the bloodstained building 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 also be gone. Any kind of plaque or memorial is unlikely. Members of the plain-living Amish community said it would attract too many visitors. "They do not want a tourist attraction," said the brother of two of the 15 boys sent out of the schoolhouse by the gunman before the shooting.
The Japan Times Weekly: Oct. 21, 2006 |
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