Column: Post-Columbine Library Bombing Joke Turns Serious
My friend and I thought we were joking. School leaders took it seriously.
This sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. My life was almost completely changed, because days before my high school graduation, some school staff members had reason to worry that I was part of a plot to bomb the library. This was 13 years ago this May, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. And, it’s also one of the more difficult stories for me to tell, and it usually comes out after a few beers or with a very trusted friend. But writing Wednesday about senior pranks gone awry, resulting in arrests with student mugshots splashed across news websites, I got a cold pit in my stomach, remembering. It could have been me. I was a straight-A student in a senior class of about 70 or so at a small high school in Iowa, Dike-New Hartford. I …
In this Article:
