A Real Life Haloween Tragedy
Hello, everybody!
Well, I hope your Halloween was as eventful as ours were. We played at a local supper club, and it was fantastic, but, don't you know, when you're preparing for something spectacular, something tragic always seem to happen. It just so happened that, as we in Southern California were preparing for the night of our lives, in South Los Angeles, the land where dreams always seem to die even before they're born, tragedy struck, as it always seem to do. While the rest of us were preparing for a rocking night on the town, the unspeakable happened. Five-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr., who was preparing to go to a Halloween party in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, never got the chance to go. You see, as he was showing off his Spiderman costume to everyone in the backyard of his home, a couple of individuals were in the alley that was adjacent to his backyard, and they fired some shots into his backyard. Aaron's uncle and grandfather suffered minor wounds when they were shot. Young Aaron, however, got shot through the head, and, sadly, he died the next day.
The only good news to come out of all of this is that the culprits were caught only a few days later (and I think that it was the hefty reward that was offered was the instigator). Now, I was wondering, as I'm sure that all of you are by now, is that, how could this outrage happen in the first place? A lot of people are saying that it's because of the lack of jobs in the area. And, of course, I would agree, given the fact that a vast majority of factories that were in existence in Los Angeles and its surrounding cities have closed over the past thiry years, and, even if you do have a high school diploma and a college degree, jobs and job opportunities are very hard to come by (I, myself, know of quite a few people who, although they have the education and even the experience, the jobs aren't out there for them to get), others say that the schools are so lacking that the students just can't compete with the other school districts that have everything to offer their students. But whatever reason you give for what happened last Sunday, everyone agrees on one thing: Everyone's children is in danger, and something must be done so save each and every one of them.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
Well, I hope your Halloween was as eventful as ours were. We played at a local supper club, and it was fantastic, but, don't you know, when you're preparing for something spectacular, something tragic always seem to happen. It just so happened that, as we in Southern California were preparing for the night of our lives, in South Los Angeles, the land where dreams always seem to die even before they're born, tragedy struck, as it always seem to do. While the rest of us were preparing for a rocking night on the town, the unspeakable happened. Five-year-old Aaron Shannon Jr., who was preparing to go to a Halloween party in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, never got the chance to go. You see, as he was showing off his Spiderman costume to everyone in the backyard of his home, a couple of individuals were in the alley that was adjacent to his backyard, and they fired some shots into his backyard. Aaron's uncle and grandfather suffered minor wounds when they were shot. Young Aaron, however, got shot through the head, and, sadly, he died the next day.
The only good news to come out of all of this is that the culprits were caught only a few days later (and I think that it was the hefty reward that was offered was the instigator). Now, I was wondering, as I'm sure that all of you are by now, is that, how could this outrage happen in the first place? A lot of people are saying that it's because of the lack of jobs in the area. And, of course, I would agree, given the fact that a vast majority of factories that were in existence in Los Angeles and its surrounding cities have closed over the past thiry years, and, even if you do have a high school diploma and a college degree, jobs and job opportunities are very hard to come by (I, myself, know of quite a few people who, although they have the education and even the experience, the jobs aren't out there for them to get), others say that the schools are so lacking that the students just can't compete with the other school districts that have everything to offer their students. But whatever reason you give for what happened last Sunday, everyone agrees on one thing: Everyone's children is in danger, and something must be done so save each and every one of them.
Well, that's all the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and don't forget the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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