26 years later, the scars of a workplace massacre remain

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Tammy Thomson switched off the lights and crowded the children into the corner of the classroom. She tried not to think of her father, or that morning 26 years ago. She focused instead on her students and the lock-down drill, this testament to a new American reality.

But the old questions came back: Had her father felt fear like this?

Stop it, she thought — this was not the time. She whispered to the kids that everything would be OK.

That night she canceled dinner plans, told her children she wasn’t well and shut her bedroom door. She wept and recalled that morning in 1989 when she and her mother and sister and brothers became early members of a grim and growing fraternity: families upended by mass, public, inexplicable murder.

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