Teresa is right, there was a wake up call. It was front page of the Milwaukee papers. The Catholic grade school I went to on Milwaukee's south side was smaller than OLA but very simular and less than 90 miles away. The nuns that taught us were of the same order of nuns at Lady of the Angles and went to the same convent. Some of the nuns at our school knew nuns at Angels so there was a this personal, emotional conection the nuns had that could be felt in class. The newspapers, the photos, the short distance between locations, the simulataries in schools, that could have been us. That could have been any number of places. After the Our Lady of the Angles at our school fire drills became routine and fire alarms instaled. There was a complete change in awareness. The only thing more numbing as a grade schooler, November 63.
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