Dunblane massacre

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Not sure where to post this but please spare a thought today 16yrs on from when 17 precious lives were lost. 16 little angels and their teacher who died trying to protect them. They will always be remembered. R.I.P

Has it been 16 years already?

I dont think a week goes by without me thinking about this awful tragedy. Sending my love and thoughts to all the families left behind to try to cope with such an horrendous time. xx

A lot of parents who should have been celebrating 21st b/days this year.. just awful

Never thought of it like that FM - too sad for words. xx

My friends little.sister would have been 21 a few wks afyer the anniversary last year. Most were either 5 about to turn 6 or had already turned 6.

RIP little angels.

It was an extraordinary tragedy and I will be thinking of everybody affected by it today x

Oh gosh, I didn't realise it had been that long. So very, very sad.

Thinking of those who were affected

I didn't realise it had been 16 years already - thank you for bringing it back to my thoughts.

Thoughts & love to all the families affected. RIP.

I have never been so saddened by a news story, before or since. Thoughts are with everyone who has been bereaved, words are just inadequate.

Thoughts are with all those lost and have lost. xxx

My thoughts are with all those affected by that awful day.

RIP little angels and their teacher. xx

Very sad.

Awful, awful tragedy. I hope the families have found some kind of peace x

You've made me cry.
I've never forgotten the minutes silence for them. I was standing in the queue for a big NEC needle work show, almost every one was female and mother or Grandmother age. Several hundred women who, no doubt went home and hugged their DCs a little closer.

RIP

Horrific day which only seemed more horrific once I became a mother.

RIP little ones and your brave teacher xx

Gosh. 16 years.

My thoughts are with the families of those who died and with all those affected by this. I remember thinking that the school year would have been horribly depleted all through school, a desperately sad reminder. I'm sure the survivors have been permanently affected. Desperately sad.

I know it is terrible but they cross my mind sometimes when I watch Andy Murray play. They were his peers. The fact that it is rarely mentioned in any items about him is both good and bad.
The memory of it will fade from the public consciousness but, as the families were so private, I suspect they woukd rather it stayed that way.

I remember watching the coverage while my eldest napped. Just beyond awful.

I remember reading about one of the little boys who survived in an article covering the 10th anniversary and his mum saying how he often felt sad because he could no longer remember what the children looked like. She also talked about how like many of us she worked f/t and rushed him in that morning even though he didn't want to go. She talked about the horror when whilst stuck in a room with the other parents, her childs name was one of a few called out and she was whisked out. Everyone assumed that those called were they unlucky ones but of course, it was the opposite.

I'll always remember the horrific image of that poor mother stood outside that house wailing her daughter's name. Thinking of her and all those parents today xx

It's such an awful tragedy and my thoughts are with the families today.

I didn't know it was 16 years but I can vividly remember pre children driving to the Cheltenham Festival and listening to the news coverage. Funnily enough even though I didn't have children I remember how unaffected other adults were about the awful death of so many children.

I wonder if maybe it hadn't sunk in during the day and the full horror became obvious later.

I always think of Dunblane when Cheltenham comes round again.

I often think about them and their families. I was heavily pregnant at the time with my twins, watching tv when the news started coming through. I called my husband in tears but could only get through to his secretary, she couldn't make sense of everything I was saying through my sobs and went and pulled him out of his meeting as she thought something had happened to our babies. 16yrs on and less controlled by raging hormones it still makes me cry to think about that awful awful day. . Wishing them peace just doesn't seem enough

such an awful thing. The same age as my eldest. I think about it often.

I hadn't realised it was the anniversary today. 16 years already :(

I remember hearing about it on the bus home from school - we were told it was a scottish primary school and that was all. the bus ride home to find out if it was the school my brother and sister were at was the longest journey ever.

my thoughts are with the families today.

gosh that's made me cry. DD is the same age now as those little children, just unthinkable.