Day of Silence

http://365gay.com/Newscon08/04/040308sil.htm

The "Day of Silence", the horrible senseless murder of this 8th grader, and everything in this article bring up many many mixed feelings, far too many to write down in one sitting. But for me this always comes back to the fact that we have to stop hating each other, we have to stop hurting each other. Whether it be in wars, or on the playground. It stops when everyone stops it, when all of us stop it.

I certainly don't know the whole story or the lives of the people and families involved in this murder, but it is hard for me to believe that an 8th grader wakes up one day and decides they hate their classmate so much that they kill them. I have to wonder how much hate has been perpetuated by the family and people in his life - probably perpetuated to them by the people in their lives...as the cycle continues on and on.