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ciroccojI did not know this. I knew that December 6 was an official day (National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women), and noted the half-mast flags downtown, but did not know there was actually a government website dedicated to today. Interesting.
For us observing the day this year took the form of me telling the boys what happened December 6, and why we remember it. Not the most cheerful bedtime story ever, but it's not the most cheerful topic in the world either.
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to a news release. Basically fifteen years ago a nutjob gunned down 14 women at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal, because they were usurping men's places in society by studying to be engineers. L&O fans who find this oddly familiar, yes, that's the real headline that the season 10 premiere Gunshow ripped from, except that in that case the women were in medicine.
Missed my mom a lot today. December 6 always reminds me of her, because she so vividly told of her fear for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ninja_kat's safety that night. My mom was working in the airport, and the only news she got was that 14 female science students at a Montreal university had been killed. And she had no way of getting away and calling ninja_kat, who was in science at a different school in Montreal, to see if she was OK.
It also makes me think of the women who died that day, and the mothers and fathers who worried about them and never got the comforting news that it wasn't their school, their branch of science, their daughter or their daughter's friend.
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Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l'École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
For us observing the day this year took the form of me telling the boys what happened December 6, and why we remember it. Not the most cheerful bedtime story ever, but it's not the most cheerful topic in the world either.
For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a link to a news release. Basically fifteen years ago a nutjob gunned down 14 women at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal, because they were usurping men's places in society by studying to be engineers. L&O fans who find this oddly familiar, yes, that's the real headline that the season 10 premiere Gunshow ripped from, except that in that case the women were in medicine.
Missed my mom a lot today. December 6 always reminds me of her, because she so vividly told of her fear for
ninja_kat's safety that night. My mom was working in the airport, and the only news she got was that 14 female science students at a Montreal university had been killed. And she had no way of getting away and calling ninja_kat, who was in science at a different school in Montreal, to see if she was OK.It also makes me think of the women who died that day, and the mothers and fathers who worried about them and never got the comforting news that it wasn't their school, their branch of science, their daughter or their daughter's friend.
Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l'École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
