A Dark Night In Aurora

   It's happened again; another man-made tragedy. And as mind shattering and unpredictable as  tragedies occur, this one was no different. It happened on July 19th in Aurora, Colorado. An American city with a population of approximately 332,354 souls who lived their lives perhaps not much differently than you and I. On this night hundreds had gathered at a local Regal Theatre to view the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises.  Among the many moviegoers, who ranged from infant to elderly, was 24 year old graduate student James Eagan Holmes who succeeded in murdering 12 of the moviegoers and wounding many more with his rifle, shot gun, and pistols before being taken into police custody.  I will not elaborate on the morbid, shameful and pathetic details of the gunman's actions.  I will leave that duty  for the media. Instead, I would like to thrust my focus on another aspect of this tragedy.

  As we began to learn more about the victims, I suppose one of the main things that caught my attention was how eerily similar they seemed to so many of the actual people in my life. The aftermath of such a traumatic event is going to be felt for many years. Adults and children will have trouble sleeping. Again the lesson comes to me in all this. Life is too short. It's time to stop sitting around and talking about what should be done and just do it. I've made up my mind that I am going after mine. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.
Dennis