He said that 4,000 entries were received in the contest, representing almost every state in the nation and some areas of Canada. High school students were invited by HBO to write an essay, poem or song about how they felt about the bombing and racial intolerance. Dear Addie Mae, Denise, Cynthia, and Carol, For a long time, I have been interested in natural hazards, especially tornadoes.
Tornadoes are probably the most fierce of all natural hazards.
They are funnel-shaped storms which twists hot air spins upwardly causing great damage when they touch down. Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, and Carol Richardson, you got caught up in the hot air spin that touched down at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church the morning of September 15th. You were victims and now symbols of our on-going need to improve race relation in America. You were a peacemaker at 14. You were funny, quiet, a churchgoer who played music.