For a generation, mid-April has witnessed some of the most cataclysmic events in American life. This year, anthonyted reports, their anniversaries come during another deeply unsettling moment for the nation: the coronavirus era.
For a generation, mid-April has delivered some of American life’s most cataclysmic moments — a week when young men have shot up schools, terrorists have blown up fellow humans, members of a religious sect have burned to death in their compound and environmental calamity has sullied the ocean.
It was easy to believe it on Monday, 25 years after the Oklahoma City bombing and the day after the 21st anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado — and, not entirely incidentally, a day after Canada’s deadliest mass shooting. — The explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010, which killed 11 crewmen and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history.
Then-principal Frank DeAngelis, who organizes the yearly ceremony, said the lack of human contact made this year’s anniversary tough — but also provided new opportunities. Beyond the core groups marking these sad moments, though, is the effect on the general public. Are the anniversaries now less noticeable because of the fatigue of American life shutting down, with social distancing in full force? Or would such milestones make things more intense for people already struggling with a changed world?
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