That is, until that now infamous day in 1975 when the sound of gunfire shattered our unity, shattered our world. In an instant, so many lives were changed forever. I m not the only one doing time because of it. Each and every one of us whose lives were touched, no matter which side we were on, is serving a life sentence, because those tragic, mind-numbing events are burned in our collective memory forever. Nothing can bring back those lost lives or take away the pain of grieving families.
Nothing can change what happened that day.
We are now back at the beginning. We have come full circle and we have a choice to make. We can either mend the hoop once and for all, or we can go back around and repeat the cycle of violence and destruction. We have to trust in what our elders teach us. They aren t just making it up, you know.