Posted 9/15/2009 05:36:00 PM by Douglas

Bizarre story of a school bombing that happened fifty years ago today in Houston.

First came the explosion, ripping through the playground with a sound like every school locker on earth slamming shut at once. Then came the carnage — six people killed, half of them children, and almost a score injured. Finally, like a lingering aftershock, came sorrow, anger and the struggle to come to grips with an act senseless and evil.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Poe Elementary School bombing, paradoxically one of the most horrendous events to mar the city's history and — except in the minds of its aging victims — one of the seemingly least remembered.

While schools have been named for Jennie Kolter and James Montgomery, a teacher and custodian killed in the blast, no monuments memorialize the other victims: students William Haws and John Fitch, and Dusty Orgeron, son of the bomber, Paul Orgeron.

Wow, how is it I've never heard of before?