Atentado contra una escuela en EUA || Relatos del lado oscuro (Podcast)

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Surely you have heard on many occasions
about the attacks in the United States.

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You probably imagine that the attack on
the Twin Towers was the most important and

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the first. Perhaps if you have
a few more years, you will remember

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the attack on the Federal building in
Knocklahoma City, United States. But in

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fact, it' s not something
that' s new. Over the years,

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the United States has always had a
problem of unbalanced people with some kind

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of very severe disorder who attack the
American population itself. This has happened over

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a long time, even the shooter
from Vegas this last one a year ago.

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A thing like that isn' t
one of the first either. There

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had already been an attack from the
land of the University of Texas in the

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1950s. Then there were other shooters
out there in the same way, among

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others a 15- year- old
girl who with a rifle twenty- two

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killed eight people. These types of
situations have occurred over a long period of

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time. And while the idea of
gun control is a very good idea,

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since this would largely limit anyone going
and buying a machine gun and then going

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and killing I don' t know
twenty people in a supermarket. The problem

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is beyond, what happens in the
minds of these people accounts of the dark

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side. Missing strange beings happening is
inexplicable stories that other minds prefer ignorant wes

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and I don' t mean that
horrible things don' t happen here.

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Terrible things happen here. We can
read it in any newspaper all the time.

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You don' t need to be
guessed, but it' s hard

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to think that someone here suddenly goes
and puts a huge bomb in an elementary

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school for no reason. So,
for no reason, simply because he'

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s under pressure, because he got
sick, because he felt like it,

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because he wanted to see fire.
I don' t know that' s

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got a story behind me in time, it' s probably not very well

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known, because, in fact,
it' s a story that' s

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many years old now. Let me
return to a thousand nine hundred and twenty

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- seven in Michigan, in the
United States, in a population called Bath

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b a t h this city is
technically called bath, yes as taking a

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bath. That' s the name
of that town. In the 1920s,

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the Bath Michigan region was essentially agricultural. They had survived World War I and

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I mean surviving even though the World
War had not been fought in the United

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States, but many of the young
men from all over Michigan never returned.

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So, after World War I,
Bath Michigan began to experience a problem of

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absence of men. This leads to
a crisis situation. Many people worked constantly,

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especially women, who had stayed with
the young husbands' farms and therefore

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had labour problems. This made people
come from other places. And, anyway,

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by a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven the situation had improved a

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little bit, but it was still
a completely agricultural rural colony At some point,

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between a thousand nine hundred and twenty- seven thousand, it happens that

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someone has a good idea to think
that a school was needed. Bath Michigan

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was one of those American communities that
had several small one- class schools in

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the far west style There was a
little school with a single living room,

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with a little bell, with a
very pretty teacher carrying food in a basket

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with a little square tablecloth. This
was a problem because all children studied in

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the same classroom, all grades.
So someone has the good idea of putting

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up a reasonably large school, with
several classrooms, with a much more functional

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facility, and this makes a lot
of people go to study there. A

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lot of kids come to this place. It was a breakthrough, certainly,

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and then, strange things happen.
That place dawns a good day of nine

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hundred and twenty- seven with strange
news. It' s May 18th of

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a thousand nine hundred and twenty-
seven. The news among the farmers is

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that the Kehow farm is on fire. It is a farm that has in

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the back a barn very American style, with chickens and horses and all the

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owner, Mr Kihow, is known
by all, although it is not of

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the natives of the region, This
man of about fifty years is known and

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suddenly his house is burning. This
makes everyone worried about why they' re

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neighbors. So out of all the
farms people begin to arrive to help extinguish

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the fire. The fire department of
the city of Bath also arrives. They

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' re volunteer firefighters who get to
see what happens when they arrive. Your

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first concern is to see if there' s anyone hurt, someone to rescue.

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The house is burning. Besides,
she' s really hurt in the

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house. There' s a lot
of broken pieces. When the firefighters approach

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one of the neighbors, which will
be about a hundred meters away, he

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claims that his windows were broken by
an explosion, that is, that something

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inside Androw quijo' s house exploded
and threw pieces of the house at the

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neighbor' s house. That'
s worrying. Someone' s gonna be

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hurt. Firefighters get in, they
check, and they realize there' s

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nobody there. Then they go down
the stairs and start taking out furniture and

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stuff, until the moment one of
them discovers that in one of the corners

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of the room there is a box
full of dynamite. Yeah, it'

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s a box of dynamite. He
takes it and he takes it out and

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everybody runs out and they' re
standing. That' s when he shows

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up andru Kiho in his truck,
someone signs him, the guy stops and

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yells at you, hey, you
guys are my friends. Better get out

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of there and start for the people
who had come to help you extinguish your

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house. That was a very strange
thing. It didn' t make sense

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why the guy' s seeing his
house burn down like that. Worse yet,

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what the hell does a box of
explosives do in a farmer' s

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box and where is it? Andrew
Nelly' s wife is a well-

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known woman. He worked at Lancing
Hospital, which is in town. Why

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he' s not here, something' s not here, it' s

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not okay. People finally finish trying
to shut that down, but the house

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is completely consumed. During the fire
successive small explosions are heard, which causes

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a certain gloom in those men.
What happened because there were explosives. It

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was an accident. Maybe Kie Howe
was thinking of doing some work, maybe

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mining, maybe exploration, maybe something. But now we have to put an

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end to this. The people who
are there include the County Commissioner, who

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has come to see what this is
about. It must be about eight forty

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- five in the morning when you' ve seen this guy leave, that

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restlessness arises and you start walking around
here, over there, to the barn.

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When you get to the barn,
the show isn' t nice.

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That has not also been partially set
on fire. There are also some dead

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animals, there are watered objects,
evidence of the explosion. They enter the

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remains that are still there watching.
Over here and over there. There'

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s Nelly, Nelly, Kiho'
s wife, and it' s not

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a nice show. Nelly ki Howe' s body is cracked, severely damaged

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and probably not just by fire.
When they discover it they realize that the

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body was in a particular position and
presented a particular rigor. It didn'

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t take a genius to realize that
body hadn' t died in the fire

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a while later. It is evident
that the woman had been killed, previously

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placed on a wheelbarrow where she had
taken an almost fetal position and then there

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had been an explosion that had thrown
pieces everywhere and a fire. That explained

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what had happened to Nelly, but
it didn' t explain why. And

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soon I wouldn' t explain everything
that would happen around this. But in

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nineteen hundred and twenty- seven,
a small rural agricultural population in Michigan with

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a very particular name, Bath Bath. Early in the morning, several of

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the local farmers have spread the word
that Andrew Kiho' s farm is burning.

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People have come to collaborate with firefighters, volunteers, etcetera, and they

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are there. It' s a
normal day. While this happens at the

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Kihow farm. The children have arrived
at the People' s School. It

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' s a new school, it' s pretty good. Those little schools

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of the self- abnegated master,
who was a teacher for forty- so

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many children or fifty of all ages, have been completed. This is a

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fit school. The land was bought, everything necessary was done, even the

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people of the village gave an extra
money so that there was enough to build

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it. Of course, some people
didn' t like it because they had

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to pay an extra tax. And
of course, during the meetings there had

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been discrepancies. A few, especially
some farmers who apparently had no children or

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had no interest in their children’
s education. They opposed this, but

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progress was necessary. There had also
been very hard times in that region.

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Now was the time to have a
big school and it was something that liked

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very much. Kiho. The guy
from the farm who' s burning up

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when he got the idea of doing
the school was such a dislike for the

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extra money he had to pay,
that he even ran for some kind of

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mayor of that community. Of course, he lost yes, he wasn'

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t considered. No one voted for
him. He was a guy they didn

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' t want. They knew him. Yeah, certainly, everybody knew he

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wasn' t a whiner, but
he wasn' t a very dear guy.

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He was a grumpy old man,
so to speak. His wife,

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Nelly, had worked constantly. His
eyes were always tired and so forth.

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There were no children in the family, only that farm with a few mistreated

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horses, an old truck and this
man ran. But of course, once

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the school was open, things changed
by one thousand nine hundred and twenty-

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six. A year before this date
when I' m talking to you,

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a year before the 18th of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-

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seven, Andrew Kiho even went to
work at school, yes as the full

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maintenance. This was well seen,
a subject who knew about manual matters.

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He was even a good electrician.
I' d been out there on some

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of these. He was a good
mechanic, he was a guy who could

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collaborate. So you' re hired
as an assistant. Many people didn'

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t like the idea. Don'
t lose sight of the fact that ki

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How didn' t want school.
But how about that morning of the eighteenth

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of May, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty- seven. Despite the enmity

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he had with many of the people’ s acquaintances, people couldn’ t

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help but feel very uncomfortable and very
sad to hear the news of the farm

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fire and the news of Nel’
s death still didn’ t run through

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the streets. In fact, the
news of the fire had mobilized all sorts

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of vehicles in the direction of the
Kihows farm. While Androw kie Hown was

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not very dear, his wife,
Nelly was a very kind woman. So

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everyone set out to go there and
help them. Unfortunately, things weren'

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t what they looked like. Eighty- five in the morning, Andrew ke

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How is seen passing in front of
the school. It' s not uncommon

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for him to work there. For
those of you who didn' t know

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about the fire, it would seem
ordinary for Andrew to get to school.

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The guy' s parked around,
his truck looks like he gets there,

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walks around and then comes out.
It remains for a few moments and then

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a brutal explosion is heard. Brutal
is eight forty- five in the morning

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and the school of this small town
has just been destroyed by a brutal explosion.

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Destroyed the right term all of a
sudden that morning, before nine o

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' clock, it couldn' t
have been more. All the children had

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already entered. Suddenly the school explodes
by jumping through the air, whole fragments

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of the building, jumping through the
air, floors, walls, ceilings,

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thousands of fragments are shot out in
all directions. Besides, they' re

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not anything. Many of the fragments
are metal pieces deliberately placed there for some

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reason, which have been fired in
all directions. The explosion, moreover,

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is heard throughout the area. Even
those who were at Andrew' s farm

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trying to do something have heard the
explosion, felt the vibration as if it

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were some kind of earthquake and have
seen a column of smoke that boils in

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the air. The panic immediately surrounds
the entire area. It' s simple.

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Many of those men and women had
taken their children early to that building

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from which a thick column of smoke
is now rising. Some who were walking

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or running to the andro farm to
see if they could help. Now they

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come running back stumbling at all the
speed they can because they' ve heard

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the explosion and they know where it' s been. The city of Bath,

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Michigan, in a thousand nine hundred
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have many schools or many buildings.
The vast majority. These are small buildings

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and one of those schools, one
of those structures, has just been completely

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destroyed. When I ogé people get
there, the situation is serious. The

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school is on fire, there are
fragments watered everywhere and something else. There

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are injured people on the street.
Some of them are parents who were just

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leaving the children. Others are people
who were passing by. Others simply had

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the bad luck of being in the
wrong place. At the wrong time,

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the explosions that took place inside the
building have still demolished to the north.

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When the smoke dissipates and the dust
settles, the image is frightening in a

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matter of moments. There are at
least a hundred people scattered. That'

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s where he starts immediately coming in. The people who were on the farm

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abandon that and come running, which, by the way, is a good

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fortune, because instants later, when
the fire arrives towards the basement area,

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there is a next explosion that completely
sweeps away the property. Evidently, that

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was no coincidence. It had been
placed there to explode when the rescuers were

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inside and cause as much damage as
possible. The result, however, had

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not been as expected. The rescuers
who were at the Andru Farm have returned

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to the village running and the explosion
has not hurt anyone else. But at

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school, at school, that looks
like a war zone. People who lived

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the war episodes of World War I. Seeing this, they move into the

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war scenarios. The school is destroyed. There are pieces everywhere. Rescue work

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begins. When they begin to get
there, they become aware of the dimension

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of the tragedy. There are dead
children, yes, some of them horribly

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mutilated. The bodies are fragmented.
The violence of the explosion reveals the harm

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and cruelty with which that was done. The attack has killed thirty- eight

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children, a couple of teachers and
some people on the street, but there

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are more than a hundred injured.
Of them sixty- one are very serious.

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Several will die in the following days. Others, while not dying,

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will be disabled with the loss of
some limb, blind injured in such a

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way that their life will never again
be the same. The descriptions that witnesses

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begin to give are frightening. Everything
was calm and suddenly bom an explosion goes

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up, a cloud of elm,
a second explosion falls pieces everywhere and the

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destruction is total. What they find
there are scattered human remains and a smell

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of death. This was described at
the time, at the time, by

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the people of press society who covered
the report of that incident of nine hundred

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and twenty- seven pointed to the
horrifying vision of fragmented bodies, of heads

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that did not have a body and
similar roofs, of neighboring houses in which

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there were corpses of children. The
scene causes more than one fainting. Then

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comes the question what the hell happened
here, what happened to the school,

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what happened to the kids, who
did this. The instant generates a huge

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disturbance in those people. No one' s reacting at the moment. There

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' s the dimension of damage.
Nobody reacts. They don' t know

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what to say, they don'
t know what to think. However,

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another incident still occurs. The day
was not yet over and there would still

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be much more to regret. The
situation in the village of Bath has become

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a real nightmare around nine o'
clock in the morning. The school,

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the novel school of this small community
in Michigan, in the United States,

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has blown up. The children who
were inside. Many of them have died,

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have been fired by the heavens,
have fallen on the neighboring roofs.

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Others have been shattered by the power
of the explosion. People don' t

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understand what' s happened. They' re not sure where the clear topic

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is. Those who are returning from
Andrew Keyhole' s farm, an incident

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where a farm has begun to burn, know that something is not right,

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since during the intention to put out
the fire on the Keyhow farm they have

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discovered a box with dynamite and suddenly
the school jumps in the air. You

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didn' t have to be too
smart to deduce that something had to do

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with Andrew keyhow This guy had always
opposed school. He was a very renegade

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guy. I hated the mayor,
I hated the head of the school'

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s own bureau, that is,
the Family Parents Committee. If you want

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to see it, like this,
I hated everyone. The relationship is simple.

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The guy' s got dynamite in
his house. There is a burning

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explosion in the house, then they
find the wife dead and now the school

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explodes. They' re in on
this. There are several people there who

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are talking about this, although of
course most are trying to get their children

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back more than one. It'
s a dantesque sight to see a mother

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holding her dead little son in her
arms, but on her right side she

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has her daughter' s body and
on her left side, the body of

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her other daughter. It' s
a terrible scene. In the middle of

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this terrible scene, down the main
avenue. About half an hour after that

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explosion, a dusty Ford truck from
the 1920s is coming, a late vehicle

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bouncing off a dirt road, passing
in front of the destroyed school and stopping

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a few meters from its low interior. Andrew, what a ho the owner

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of the farm that' s been
set on fire. The one where there

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was an explosion, the one where
they found the dynamite. He just got

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to school through the president. Let' s call him that or head of

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the school and in general, the
population is watching him and is quickly approaching

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to see what happens. In fact, Andrew Keyhowe called him in. This

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is the Superintendent Hoyk A man Andrew
keyhow had always had a very bad relationship

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with. The fact is, when
Hoyk gets to the truck, Andrew Keho

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pulls out a gun, a shotgun
that threatens him. Hoyke comes forward and

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holds it. Hold it tight.
Nelson Matfarren, an older man who has

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been watching the whole scene and who
is trying to collaborate, is approaching.

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Cleo Clayton, a child who survived
the explosion and who is standing next to

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the superintendent trembling with fear, is
also there. When he sees the Superintendent

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approaching the van, the boy goes
after the superintendent to see what it is

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about. It was the last moment
of all of them' s life,

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at the moment when they are suddenly
struggling Androw Kijo releases the gun that he

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had in his hands approaches the truck
and before Hoyk can act on the gun

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and kill him, Ki How detonates
an explosive charge that he carries in the

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truck' s box. In addition
to the explosives, the truck box is

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full of pieces of metal, pieces
of wood, pieces of trunk designed to

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become a real bomb. Thousands of
fragments are fired in all directions. Of

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course, androw ke how Hur dies
on the spot. The explosion does not

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tear Hoyk apart, Superintendent Hoyt dies
at the very moment. Nelson Mcfarren,

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who had approached to help, also
dies at the time. Little Cliyohclayton,

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who had approached to see, also
dies. Inside the seriously injured is Mr

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Smith Glen Smith, who would also
die a little later. That same day,

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several other people who were there lamenting
the loss of a child, lamenting

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the destruction, died. The entire
area is devastated by the explosion. The

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van was loaded with explosives as far
as it could no longer fit and hundreds

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of fragments of all kinds of metal
from spoon to slave. Tool pieces were

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there. The explosion has caused a
terrible second damage. People who were on

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the site can' t understand what
the hell this is in a matter of

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minutes. People from all over the
area, people who have come from other

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communities, even from other states,
come to try to help doctors. The

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few doctors in the colony. In
that place, in Bath Michigan, they

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rush to help those who can,
but there is not much to do.

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Many of these people are already dead. But in addition, the first of

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the federal agents to arrive at the
site gives the sound of alarm and if

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something didn' t explode, everyone
is stuck in the school' s remains

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trying to rescue corpses And if there' s more explosives, the school'

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s remains have to stay there.
Someone has to come and check if there

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are no more explosives those serious people
who have arrived have to wait for someone

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who knows about this to come in
and check if it is safe. One

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of the former soldiers of the First
World War, a man who served in

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the American army during the First War, is the first to sound this alarm

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and assures us that the bombs do
not always explode or that they may have

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exploded either side. No wonder he
decided to just attack the North Wing and

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not the whole school. As this
happens, hundreds of people continue to arrive

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at the end of the day.
No one cares and they' re going

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to check what' s in there, see if there' s any people

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alive, see if they find any
wounded children. The school remains allow it

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and finally manage to rescue numerous people
who were injured. Yeah, people who

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had gotten there to do something.
Children who did not die in the explosion

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were taken to nearby hospitals, but
what had really happened. The surprise was

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still there. That old soldier was
absolutely right. During the search it was

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discovered that, in fact, there
were at least two hundred and fifty kilos

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of dynamite that had not exploded in
the Alazur. The police again remove all

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the rescuers, stop that completely and
an army group arrives to recover the explosives.

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When they review that, they realize
the degree of perversity there was.

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Kiho had prepared enough explosives to completely
demolish the school to kill everyone. The

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devices were simple to charge explosives,
a device known as piro col or,

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a device known as pirocol used in
mining and an alarm clock. Yeah,

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a watch. When the alarm clock
dialed at eight forty- five the explosion

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would occur, but due to an
error in connecting the wires when giving the

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eight- fifty forty- five,
a small short circuit prevented the bomb from

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bursting. Otherwise, it wouldn'
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It would have been two hundred and
fifty the entire population of the school.

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After the search for explosives was completed, the recovery of corpses continued.

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Witnesses had now been informed of what
had happened at the Farm. The authorities

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would go there to investigate. Andrew
Keyhole for a little over a year had

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been buying explosives, dynamite, pyro
col all of this periodically. It was

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no wonder that explosives, including military
explosives, could be purchased in those years

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after World War I, the United
States had put on sale numerous elements that

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had belonged to the army. The
explosive was often used in construction works,

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in mining works. It would not
be unusual for someone to buy a few

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cartridges, even under the pretext of
ending a plague of tuas and similar things,

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to have had the patience to buy
something more than a ton of explosives

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one after another. The days were
quietly accumulating it a couple of days before

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the attack. The situation would have
reached its peak when he murdered his wife

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and then made the decision to dynamite
the school. But don' t get

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confused. He had already prepared everything. The explosion occurs in May. However,

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Andrew Kihow had been seen entering school
throughout the December vacation period, at

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which point he should not have been. The school was closed, but Kihow

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had the key thanks to his work
as a school employee, which tells us

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that this guy had planned everything with
his mantis. He had had the time

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to go and place explosive charges gradually
in the cellars knowing that those areas were

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only visited by him. He had
chosen the right places and had stacked enough

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explosives to demolish the entire school.
Then the rest is history. Kiho had

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taken about a year to prepare everything. About a year systematically, this man

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went to a school where he heard
the laughter of the children, where he

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saw them play, where he heard
teachers, saw teachers, talked to them

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and at the end of the day
he killed them a little more than a

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year. You' d like to
imagine the kind of guy who' s

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able to get out of work,
say goodbye to the kids saying goodbye to

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the teachers, maybe even share one
of those basket sandwiches that Americans always carry

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with them, then get in their
vehicle and move to neighboring county to buy

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explosives with which they' re going
to kill all these people. During the

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following investigations, it was determined that
Anelly kihow La had killed her with a

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blunt blow to the head. It
was determined that this would have happened at

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some point the previous afternoon and that
he had everything prepared to kill as soon

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as rescuers arrived again and for the
good fortune of the rescuers, the fire

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did not stop enough force to penetrate
the basement and unleash the hell Andrew Keyhole

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expected to happen. But that'
s not yet. Kie How had the

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nerve to go and still top off
his archenemy, Emory Hoyke, for whom

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he professed a deep hatred, even
though Hoyk had, of course, hired

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him as a school employee. What
happened to this man, who this guy

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was, where he had come from, what the hell had happened? You

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' ll immediately imagine he was a
former fighter. No, Andrew Quijo was

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a fifty- five- year-
old man at the time of the attack

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had been born in one thousand eight
hundred seventy- two. So by the

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time of the war, he was
over forty. This guy wasn' t

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the war. He was born in
New York. He was the 13th child

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of a family Yes, he had
certainly had very hard times, Although when

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his mother dies and his father remarries, he has a very bad time.

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There wasn' t really much to
say. It was the time. Many

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families lived on this kind of thing. The mother died, the children she

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gave to the father or vice versa. He had gone to a school,

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even where he was born he had
stayed for a little while. Later he

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had gone to a place known as
Tecumse, another small town in Michigan,

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was no real character. When the
war began in nineteen hundred and fourteen he

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was considered unfit for service, first, because of age and, secondly,

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because three years ago he had suffered
an accident where he had received a very

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severe blow to the head. You
can' t tell if that had anything

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to do with it, but from
that moment on, even Nelly declared that

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she had completely changed and that her
behavior had become erratic behavior. Some believe

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that the blow to the head would
have led to all this wear and tear.

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It' s hard to tell anyway. The subject was not particularly dear,

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but he was a working person.
No one would imagine this many years

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away psychiatrists, psychologists, profilers of
f see analysts wondering what the hell happened.

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He was the 13th son of a
family. All right, other families

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could have even more children and this
wasn' t happening. This attack,

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though, was not the first.
There had already been another bombing of a

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church in the United States. Imagine, you' re talking about a thousand

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nine hundred and twenty- seven,
but you' re the first against a

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school. Michigan' s attack would
be, or is considered, the first

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mass attack, the first violent attack
with explosives specifically against a school. There

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was no racial pretext. Bath Michigan
School was a school where both colored and

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white students attended. It was not
a racial or religious matter. The school

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belonged to the county and did not
belong to any particular church, the attack

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was simply out of hatred those people
the attack takes place that day. The

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attacker, in this case, Andrew
Keyhole, dies in the attack, which

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is also common in these incidents and
many studies and analyses would come to find

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out what the hell had happened there. It was the first time this had

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happened, but, obviously, studies
in the matter of mass attacks and more

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merders were not something there was.
There was no profiler like such a person

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who devoted himself to this. So
the case of the Bath Michigan attack would

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be a subject of study for many
years to come to tremendous conclusions. See

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one of the theories was the theory
of the blow to the head. In

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nineteen hundred and eleven, this guy
had had a terrible blow to his head,

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which had left him hospitalized for a
good time, and there were those

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who claimed that after that incident,
Andrew key How had never been the same

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again. But other things day.
When the school is built in the early

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1920s, the population of Bath,
Michigan establishes a special tax. Everyone has

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to contribute extra money to build the
school. Androw Kiho always opposed this on

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the premise that he had no children
to send to school. From there,

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he argued that having paid those excise
duties had left him bankrupt. But that

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wasn' t all. Nelly Nelliky
How, his wife, who had worked

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her whole life. She would also
have a peculiar illness, a tuberculosis-

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like illness, which would incapacitate her
and end up being discharged from her job,

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which would add up to a lot
of debts. The treatment, having

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to leave the farm to take her
to the doctor constantly, the inability to

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attend the field would lead to Andrew
Quijo being in a very forced, very

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committed economic situation. It is known
that during the last few months, Andrew

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had not paid the mortgage he had
taken out on his property. In addition,

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the land had been virtually abandoned.
There are two factors involved. It

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is not known whether the economic pressure
for the losses and all of this would

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have led him to attack the School, oh if they would have happened because

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of the idea of the end to
the next, that is, because of

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the proximity that the attack that would
cost him his life as it was,

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it is very likely that Kiho would
have used as his own pretext for the

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attack the fact that the school would
have brought him to ruin, which,

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by the way, was false.
The tax was a lower tax, it

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would not have affected anyone' s
economy. During the investigation it was final

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that was given on the old house
and on the destroyed property of the Kiho

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was found a very peculiar plaque,
a wooden engraved plate that said the murderers

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are not born, they are made. The badge was next to Nelly Kihow

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' s body, which gave an
idea that this guy had thought of it

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that way and that the reason for
the escape of that anger was the school.

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This would be one of the most
violent attacks, but of course it

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would not be the only one.
From there, there would be similar attacks

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over the years, in the forties, in the fifties, in the sixties,

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in each of these décodes similar incidents
occurred. In one thousand nine hundred

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and sixty- six, an attack
on a school in an African- American

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colony would leave about twenty children dead. Other similar attacks have been taking place

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over the years. They' re
not always lonely shooters. Sometimes the attacks

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are perpetrated by macabre characters like Kee
Howe, with enough patience to put together

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an intricate process of destruction. On
other occasions, they are subjects who are

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lonelyly deranged and begin to act by
feeling the power to have a weapon in

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their hand. Others plan for very
long periods of time and do so even

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when they do not use explosives.
We have examples such as Columbine, as

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hwhite Knife and so many others where
tragically similar events took place. So it

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' s not something new. It' s not that these new generations are

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worse. The incident that I told
you tonight comes from a thousand nine hundred

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and twenty- seven and prior to
this there had already been attacks. The

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big question I think we' re
all doing that to each other, why

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it' s clear there' s
been attacks elsewhere, too. There have

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been attacks even in Sweden, it
seems to me, or in similar places

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where enormous social tranquility is presumed,
but they are very sporadic. On the

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other hand, in the United States, for some reason, one of these

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tragedies occurs from time to time.
What' s going on in these people

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' s minds. They are supposed
to have a better standard of living,

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living in a much more favorable condition. And yet, suddenly, someone would

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go wild and see what causes surprising. I don' t think there are

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many other cases to talk about.
There will be an opportunity, of course,

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if you accompany us again to discuss
these issues, to return to them.

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It is overwhelming, and even if
it is not a program that describes

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human remains floating in the air,
far from it, the idea itself is

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terrifying and good weather. Time will
always run out and it' s time

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to say goodbye to all of you, thanking you, of course, for

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your company' s favor tonight.
Good evening, follow us on our YouTube

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channel, too, stories from the
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