Deja Vu
Submitted by Gene Patterson on July 29, 2008 - 1:42am
I felt an odd "deja vu" moment at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday.
More than a year ago, I was in Blacksburg, Virginia. I was there just hours after a lone gunman murdered more than 30 students and faculty on the campus of Virginia Tech.
It was a terribly sad time to be on that campus.
And a sad time to be in Knoxville last night.
While the numbers weren't the same, the feeling of loss was. There was also a sense of disbelief. I felt it in Blacksburg and again last night.
In Blacksburg, no one could believe such violence could happen on a college campus. In Knoxville, it wasn't supposed to happen in a church sanctuary.
But we all know now, violence can happen anywhere.
