I don't really believe in ghosts, but there was one night around 2000 when I found myself designated-driving around a trio of drunk friends late at night through the nooks and crannies of East Texas.
We often found ourselves in old graveyards on these adventures. And this night would not be so different.
We stopped at the school in New London, site of the 1937 New London school explosion. My friends requested I pull over. They then proceeded to urinate across the street from the monument that stands in tribute to those who lost their lives that day.
I looked at the faces in the monument, and I was officially creeped out.
The granite structure stands where the old school (leveled by the explosion) did those years ago.
Even Adolf Hitler expressed his sympathy for the pain and suffering that day.
Doing the math now, I can estimate that my friends were urinating about where mangled children were being pulled from twisted steel and crumbled concrete.
No wonder those people on the monument were so upset.
319 people died there about 70 years ago Saturday.
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