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I'm tired of people complaining about how younger people are terrible as though they weren't the ones that raised those younger people to be what they are.
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"You kids and these damn phones..." My parents are on their phones more than I am by a lot.
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The New London School Explosion. On the afternoon of March 18, 1937, the shop teacher at the school in New London, TX turned on an electric sander. Unbeknownst to him, there was a massive natural gas leak under the school. The sander sparked, which ignited the gas and caused a massive explosion that [unalived] almost 300 students and teachers. It was absolutely horrific. The force of the explosion was so great that a two ton block of concrete crushed a car parked 200 feet away. This event is actually why natural gas has a smell now. They started adding it after the explosion so that something like this couldnât ever happen again. My grandfather was actually one of the survivors of the explosion. He never talked about it, even to his own family, so I didnât really know too much about it (other than the fact that heâd survived) until after his [passing]. Toward the end of his life, heâd suffered a series of strokes that left him pretty physically incapacitated, so my dad had given him a voice-activated tape recorder and suggested maybe he could record his memoirs for his grandkids to listen to someday. As it turns out, he did. We have hours and hours of cassette tapes of him telling the story of his (actually very interesting) life, including a big section on the New London school explosion. For the sake of everyoneâs privacy, Iâll call my grandfather Papa and use an initial for anyone else. Papa was in eighth grade when it happened, in his English class at about 3:00 PM on a Thursday afternoon. At the beginning of class, Papa and his buddy T had been messing around and being loud in the back of the classroom (as eighth grade boys often do). His teacher, Miss M, had enough of their disruptions and made Papa switch seats with another student. He moved into the girlâs desk in the front row, and she moved back into his desk in the back of the room. When the school exploded, they were taking a test on the book Ivanhoe. Papa was knocked out for a short time, and when he woke up, he couldnât see anything because the dust was so thick. He looked down and saw that his pencil had blown clear through his hand. When the dust cleared, he saw that the whole back of the room was gone. I wonât go into details, but there were bodies (and parts of bodies) everywhere. The students in the front half of the room survived. The students in the back half did not. That included Papaâs friend T and the little girl whoâd been forced to take Papaâs desk because of his misbehavior at the beginning of class. If he hadnât been acting up, he would have been [unalived] and she would have lived. He carried the guilt of her [passing] until the day he [passed away]. Papaâs classroom was on the second floor. There wasnât any way to get to the room other than the open cavity of the explosion. After the few seconds of initial shock wore off, he and another classmate jumped into action. They were the only two kids in the class who hadnât been badly injured. They made a tourniquet out of a sock and a shoelace for a girl with a severe injury to her arm and dug out their teacher, who was alive, but badly injured. By then, men were running up underneath the hole, so Papa and the other boy started lowering the injured to them. Then those who could walk, including Papa, climbed down. He ran off to look for his older brother, B, to see if he was OK. As it turned out, B had been supposed to be in Geometry class. However, he and his buddy had snuck out to go fishing. The explosion happened as they were opening the door to head out to the parking lot. The force of the blast sent them tumbling head over foot across the lot. They were both banged up and dazed, but they survived. The rest of their Geometry class was [unalived]. I donât know that thereâs a moral in the fact that both my grandfather and his brother survived because they were misbehaving that day. I do know that it weighed very heavily on both of them for he rest of their lives. Thereâs a lot more to his story about the day and the aftermath (most of it absolutely horrific), but I wonât go into all of it here. A few small tidbits though: - Papa and the boy who helped him rescue the other students from their classroom were both awarded medals and certificates of valor for their actions that day. - Nearly every family in town lost a child - some all of their children. Iâm sure you can imagine the extreme toll this took on everyoneâs mental health. Papa described New London in the months following the explosion as a âtown with no children.â To help with the healing process, the oil companies actively recruited families with kids to transfer in, so that there was some sense of normalcy when school started again in the fall. - Papa had played French horn in the school band. However, when school started up again, he was asked to switch to trumpet, as the entire trumpet section had been [unalived]. A few years later, my grandfather went on to fight in World War II, and he saw some of the worst conflict in the Pacific (including Peleliu and the liberation of Manila). But he said that nothing he saw during the war was ever as bad as what he saw the day of the explosion. Iâm always amazed that more people donât know about it. It was major international news at the time.
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"You kids and these damn phones..." My parents are on their phones more than I am by a lot.photoguy423 reply
I'm tired of people complaining about how younger people are terrible as though they weren't the ones that raised those younger people to be what they are.
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The New London School Explosion. On the afternoon of March 18, 1937, the shop teacher at the school in New London, TX turned on an electric sander. Unbeknownst to him, there was a massive natural gas leak under the school. The sander sparked, which ignited the gas and caused a massive explosion that [unalived] almost 300 students and teachers. It was absolutely horrific. The force of the explosion was so great that a two ton block of concrete crushed a car parked 200 feet away. This event is actually why natural gas has a smell now. They started adding it after the explosion so that something like this couldnât ever happen again. My grandfather was actually one of the survivors of the explosion. He never talked about it, even to his own family, so I didnât really know too much about it (other than the fact that heâd survived) until after his [passing]. Toward the end of his life, heâd suffered a series of strokes that left him pretty physically incapacitated, so my dad had given him a voice-activated tape recorder and suggested maybe he could record his memoirs for his grandkids to listen to someday. As it turns out, he did. We have hours and hours of cassette tapes of him telling the story of his (actually very interesting) life, including a big section on the New London school explosion. For the sake of everyoneâs privacy, Iâll call my grandfather Papa and use an initial for anyone else. Papa was in eighth grade when it happened, in his English class at about 3:00 PM on a Thursday afternoon. At the beginning of class, Papa and his buddy T had been messing around and being loud in the back of the classroom (as eighth grade boys often do). His teacher, Miss M, had enough of their disruptions and made Papa switch seats with another student. He moved into the girlâs desk in the front row, and she moved back into his desk in the back of the room. When the school exploded, they were taking a test on the book Ivanhoe. Papa was knocked out for a short time, and when he woke up, he couldnât see anything because the dust was so thick. He looked down and saw that his pencil had blown clear through his hand. When the dust cleared, he saw that the whole back of the room was gone. I wonât go into details, but there were bodies (and parts of bodies) everywhere. The students in the front half of the room survived. The students in the back half did not. That included Papaâs friend T and the little girl whoâd been forced to take Papaâs desk because of his misbehavior at the beginning of class. If he hadnât been acting up, he would have been [unalived] and she would have lived. He carried the guilt of her [passing] until the day he [passed away]. Papaâs classroom was on the second floor. There wasnât any way to get to the room other than the open cavity of the explosion. After the few seconds of initial shock wore off, he and another classmate jumped into action. They were the only two kids in the class who hadnât been badly injured. They made a tourniquet out of a sock and a shoelace for a girl with a severe injury to her arm and dug out their teacher, who was alive, but badly injured. By then, men were running up underneath the hole, so Papa and the other boy started lowering the injured to them. Then those who could walk, including Papa, climbed down. He ran off to look for his older brother, B, to see if he was OK. As it turned out, B had been supposed to be in Geometry class. However, he and his buddy had snuck out to go fishing. The explosion happened as they were opening the door to head out to the parking lot. The force of the blast sent them tumbling head over foot across the lot. They were both banged up and dazed, but they survived. The rest of their Geometry class was [unalived]. I donât know that thereâs a moral in the fact that both my grandfather and his brother survived because they were misbehaving that day. I do know that it weighed very heavily on both of them for he rest of their lives. Thereâs a lot more to his story about the day and the aftermath (most of it absolutely horrific), but I wonât go into all of it here. A few small tidbits though: - Papa and the boy who helped him rescue the other students from their classroom were both awarded medals and certificates of valor for their actions that day. - Nearly every family in town lost a child - some all of their children. Iâm sure you can imagine the extreme toll this took on everyoneâs mental health. Papa described New London in the months following the explosion as a âtown with no children.â To help with the healing process, the oil companies actively recruited families with kids to transfer in, so that there was some sense of normalcy when school started again in the fall. - Papa had played French horn in the school band. However, when school started up again, he was asked to switch to trumpet, as the entire trumpet section had been [unalived]. A few years later, my grandfather went on to fight in World War II, and he saw some of the worst conflict in the Pacific (including Peleliu and the liberation of Manila). But he said that nothing he saw during the war was ever as bad as what he saw the day of the explosion. Iâm always amazed that more people donât know about it. It was major international news at the time.
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