What is it about the week of April 20?

[NightWatcher]

What is it about the week of April 20? Why do bad things seem to happen on and around this date more than others? Is there a connection to 4:20?

April 19, 1993- The ATF raid on the compound of David Koresh in Waco Texas. Fires broke out and spread quickly through the buildings, killing approximately 79 Branch Davidians, 21 of whom were children.

April 19, 1995- Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. 168 were killed and over 800 were injured in this attack.

April 20, 1999- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves at the Columbine High School in Colorado.

and now April 16, 2007- Virginia Tech.

Also:
1889 –Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German dictator (d. 1945)

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Timothy McVeigh picked and planned that day due to his outrage

over Waco. Friends and family say Waco is finally what drove his anti government stance to the edge...and over.

[soothsayer]

2. We should leave this week off the calendar, and add a week to

say July (maybe a weeklong July 4 national holiday!). That'll be my platform when I run.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. School shootings

seem to occur in the spring. Students reach a breaking point, they find out they're going to fail a class, or they can't handle leaving the security of the institution, or whatever. Unstable personalities in an uncertain world, add the ease of getting one's hands on a gun, add a society that allows (even embraces) violence, and you have tragedy.


http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/2321944

[maine_raptor]

4. April 19. 1775.

Lexington and Concord.

[bananas]

5. allergy season. nt

[annabanana]

6. As a gal who grew up in Lexington Mass..

It infuriated me that the bonehead skinheads made this week their default destruction week.. For us it was the best holiday of the season (April 19th) There were two parades, "The Green" was full of great places to poke around, get cotton candy, play games.

Early in the morning, the re-enactment.. All the local people would get up in redcoats or 18th Century farmer's get-up and re-enact the whole saga, from when William Dawes shouted the alarm to when the redcoats headed up to Concord ..

Now it's forever tied to the bloody crimes in the OP and it pisses me off!

[maine_raptor]

11. I remember those too, anna.

Grew up in Winchester.

Patriots Day should be a National Holiday, not the local one it is now. Part of my love for this country is rooted in the celebrations I witnessed at the Green and the Bridge.

[havocmom]

7. Highest suicide rate is in spring too.

Had read, years ago, that blood chemistry changes - fats stored for winter being flushed and so on. Don't know if any new research debunked or not. Theory was the shift in blood chemistry could tend to exacerbate any stress reactions.

My divorce started in spring years ago. Wonder what figures are for divorce rates by seasons.

[blogslut]

8. Because April is the cruellest month

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers...

[brook]

9. "April is the crulest month"

"APRIL is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers."

T.S.Eliot -The Wasteland

[lectrobyte]

10. McViegh picked the date because of Waco.

[Virginia Dare]

12. April 18, 1906, San Francisco Earthquake...n/t

[porphyrian]

13. Don't try to associate psycho aberrant violent behavior with pot.

That's disingenuous.

[mdmc]

14. no

[hyphenate]

15. Hey!

I resemble that remark!

My birthday is April 25! Born on my birthday are Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Meadowlark Lemon, Edward R. Murrow, and Oliver Cromwell.

There are plenty of other events happening that week, including the fact that Secretarys' Day is Wednesday, April 25. (It falls on the last Wednesday of the month).

History might show that some important things that week, but if you take ANY date and randomly look for bad events, you will find nearly every day of the 365 (or 366 if it's a leap year) has some significant tragic event.

[laruemtt]

19. daddy, is that you?

wow, hyphenate, my dad used to always say "I resemble that remark!" and today, april 19, is the 10-year anniversary of his passing. i take this as his using you as a conduit to say hi to me and that all's still cool - thanks! :hi:

[ProfessorGAC]

16. April 19th, 1995 My Diagnosis Of MS Was Confirmed

Not the best week for me, either. Yep, same day as OKC.
The Professor

[Pathwalker]

17. Aries into Taurus. Fire scorches the Earth.

n/t

[WilliamPitt]

18. "Is there a connection to 4:20?"

Yes.

If Hitler, McVeigh, Harris, Kliebold, Cho and Koresh had partaken in the weed, we'dd have a lot fewer shitty April days to memorialize.

[trogdor]

20. 4/20 is Hitler's birthday.

That's why all this shit started.

[EstimatedProphet]

21. The day hitler was born probably wasn't that bad a day

The bad days came later.