[NOTE: The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a terrorist attack that started on September 1, 2004, lasted three days, involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages (including 777 children) and ended with the deaths of 333 people, 186 of them children, as well as 31 of the attackers. It is considered to be the deadliest schoolshooting in human history. Written September 4, 2004 — In another place and time.]
The soldier with the unlit cigarette carrying the little girl in filthy underwear with a long smear of blood across her nose and down her chin.
The boy that lies in his father’s lap covered with crusts of blood gazing upward at nothing, nothing at all except his own pain.
-WiscoDave
