When we think of school tragedies these days, it’s usually in the wake of the most recent shooting spree on some campus somewhere in America.

Those are terrible tragedies to be sure. Frightening and unthinkable. We can only imagine how the people in those communities must feel.

But for a dwindling number of people in East Texas, the idea of a school tragedy is much closer to home, and the death toll involved truly staggering.

The worst school tragedy in American history didn’t happen far away. It happened in New London, Texas, just a dozen or so miles south...

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