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Dunblane - A decade on.....

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tiredemma · 02/03/2006 19:29

I dont even know if i will be able to watch this myself, saw a piece in a newspaper about it today with a class picture in it and found myself sobbing-. I can remember this happening quite clearly ten years ago, but to me then, although i found it sad, it didnt really affect me.

Today however, reading indepth about what happened 10 years ago, it really struck a chord with me, my eldest boy is 5 and in reception- I looked at the class photo today in the newspaper and felt so sad at such a waste of young childrens life in such an evil way. - As i say, i highly doubt that i will be able to watch it, but thought that some of you may want reminding that it is on.

"Dunblane: A Decade On, due to transmit on March 8th 2006, focuses on the tenth anniversary of the tragic deaths of the 16 children and their teacher. This documentary features an exclusive interview with one of the teachers who gives her account of what happened that day. She gave evidence to the Cullen Inquiry but has never given an in-depth interview before.

Executive Producer, Will Hanrahan, was one of the reporters sent to record the aftermath of the event.

"I drove the same journey to Dunblane as I did ten years ago, " he said. "It was my first time back. And as I drove nearer, I felt the convulsions of grief the whole country felt at the news in 1996. It has been a programme made with the help of a teacher, a parent and a pupil whose story should never be forgotten."
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Bomper · 02/03/2006 20:22

Sad Doubt I would make it to 5 minutes in without sobbing. So, so awful.

Hulababy · 03/03/2006 20:29

I can't watch. I remember at the time watching it all on TV. I was in my final year of a teaching degree and sat there shocked, aghast and in tears. I have read the papers at the time, and more recently the details again on the BBC. I can't read it without tears coming, let alone watch. Those poor children. Those poor teachers. And how those poor parents cope with the aftermath I have no idea :(

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spursmum · 03/03/2006 20:31

I didn't know that Andy Murray (british no.1 seed at tennis now) was there. He hid in a cupboard in the head's office.Shock

JanH · 03/03/2006 20:33

No, I couldn't watch this.

The saddest story is \link{http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,,1707932,00.html\Mick North's} - his wife had died when their daughter was about 2 and looking after her and bringing her up was his responsibility and he felt he had failed in that.

I remember watching the live news coverage of the parents outside the school with my heart pounding for them.

crazydazy · 03/03/2006 20:50

You just cannot imagine it.....I just don't think i could have carried on. Sad

expatinscotland · 03/03/2006 20:51

Same here, crazy. I think that would have finished me off.

Hulababy · 03/03/2006 20:55

Oh I have just read that article Jan :( :( :(

crazydazy · 03/03/2006 20:55

At the time I was 24 and didn't have no children and I felt so sad and it really did affect me, so much more than Princess Diana's death....but now after having children and knowing how precious and vulnerable they are I know my heart would break....without a doubt.

Everytime I heard that song "knock, knock knocking" it just makes your heart ache inside.

Those poor, poor parents. Sad

yoyo · 03/03/2006 20:56

I had just given birth to DD1 when this happened and the MW was making her visit. Didn't have the easiest of times and I remember listening to it on the radio and just crying. Having just become a parent it felt unberably sad and even reading about it now takes me back to that day and how it made me feel.

spacecadet · 03/03/2006 21:04

god is it ten years ago? my dd was reception age when this happened, it affected me deeply and im not afraid to admit that i cried and cried over it.

expatinscotland · 03/03/2006 21:13

God rest their little souls.

jambuttie · 03/03/2006 21:39

My friend hubby- also my sons godfather- his youngest son was in the opposite class to these children, a few of his wee friends were killed that daySad

He still remembers too, I believe a thing he will never forget

WideWebWitch · 03/03/2006 21:41

Oh is it ten years, how awful. I didn't even have children at the time and it made me cry.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 03/03/2006 21:55

Its such an awful awful day for me. SadSad

In 1992 my nan died on that day.

That day, 10 years ago, we didnt get to hear much of Dunblane in the daytime because, one of our work colleagues had disappeared and finally rung us mid morning to say he was just about to kill himself. Which he was succesfull in doing.

A truly, truly awful day SadSadSad

Aimsmum · 03/03/2006 21:59

I was at school at the time and one of our teachers got called out of class as his son was at the school in Dumblane.

He was in the upper school though, and not the P1 class.

It was a horrible day Sad

TambaTheDragonSlayer · 03/03/2006 21:59

I was only 13 at the time and I dont think it really registered with me. Since becoming a mother and having my ds1 in nursery, Its one of the things that flashed into my mind on his first day. Its unimagenable. Those poor babies and there families SadSadSad

saadia · 03/03/2006 22:10

I was working at the time in a job which involved scanning all the daily national papers and had to keep reading and re-reading about the tragedy. It was utterly unbearable and heartbreaking.

Now that I have dss the thought of what those parents must have gone through, and must still be going through, is just too awful for words.

seb1 · 03/03/2006 22:24

I think I will end up in tears if I watch it. Last week I had to nip into school to drop dd1's sandshoes of for gym, she is in P1, I had to wait a while at the security buzzer to get access and I remember thinking about Dunblane and how it had made these a requirement and prior to this how much more vunerable schools must have been when someone could walk in unchallanged and commit such a terrible act.

ja9 · 03/03/2006 22:44

i was in the 6th yr common room at school. it was the first piece of news that ever made me cry.

now i live very close to dunblane and go to church there. i think about it lots. just today i drove past that school. for me it's all the more shocking now that i know dunblane. it is just the prettiest place with the most beautiful houses... Sad

TwoIfBySea · 03/03/2006 22:51

I will need to watch it although it will break my heart.

My friend had a dd born just a few weeks earlier and I was at their house as it was my day off. The tv was on although we weren't really watching it as I was looking after her ds as she put her dd to bed, it was about 10.30 or so in the morning when we first heard.

Knowing some people in Dunblane we were first thankful none of them had children at that point then horrified as the atrocity unfolded. I'll never forget that day and what that b***d did, that school photo with all those little smiling faces those gone forever.

I remember there was a programme a few years back about one of the survivors, a little girl, who had problems walking after being shot several times. It was truly heartbreaking watching her struggle and frustration against her situation.

Now with children of my own who will be 5 at the end of the year it seems even more terrifying.

Northerner · 04/03/2006 11:35

I am in floods after reading that article. This absolutley chills my blood.

If it were a child of mine I could not go on.

I remember when this happenned, I had just started dating dh and had no kids. It made me cry then.

Can not watch this programme.

blueteddy · 04/03/2006 11:56

There is no way I could watch the programme. I am in floods of tears after reading that article.
How could those poor parents carry on?Sad

cupcakes · 04/03/2006 12:13

I cried loads about this at the time.
And since having children it has affected me even more. Especially when ds started school. I think about it almost every week. How vulnerable they now seem at school, a place which should be so safe.

DumbledoresGirl · 04/03/2006 12:21

I was a teacher at the time and our school was debating whether or not to have security measures like a combination lock on the door. I was not in favour as I felt a school should be a welcoming part of the community with free access to all. Then Dunblane happened and my headteacher rather rubbed my nose in it that I was so unsafety conscious. And today it is unthinkable that a school would not lock its doors and have other security measures. What a sad society we live in (that there are people out there who make us live behind locked doors).

But of course, the tragedy for those children is the worst I can think of (alongside the one in Russia whose name I forget) and I too would find it hard to watch a programme about it, having had 3 children pass through reception so far and one more to go.

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