The killings and shootings at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb have really shocked Liz and myself. We are both 1973 graduates of the university, located about 60 miles west of Chicago and about 55 miles from where we live now in Spring Grove.
We were having a Valentine's Day dinner at a local place when a lady asked the people to put the news on where we saw a picture of Northern and the words NIU Shootings. She was out snowmobiling and had just gotten a call from her daughter, who was a student at NIU. The daughter was ok and had not been by the site.
We came home and called a Gail, a friend who went back to college for a degree. She was ok, but said she'd been parked right by the building where the shootings occurred just a hour earlier.
We paid particular attention throughout the evening as more news came available.
When we were students, the thought of this happening would never have enetered our mind.
Sad Times.
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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