It's hard to believe it has been 58 years since I was in Junior High at Sweetwater , Texas . I was only 12 years old. I will never, ever forget that day though. I had to walk home and it was raining and lightening really bad. I was hoping my Mom or Dad would come get me but they didn't. I was walking under the underpass on Lamar Street and had to go way over on West Broadway. My Dad had a mechanic shop over by the overpass on West Broadway . I was going under that underpass when a bolt of lightening hit something hard. I will never forget that sound it made.
I later found out two girls were killed when the lightening hit a tree where they were waiting for a bus . There were 12 injured. The ones killed were Robbie Mitchell and Glenda Sue Condray. I was in the 6th grade. I think they were a grade ahead of me in the 7th grade.
That was such a sad thing to happen to these girls and something so unexpecting. Sweetwater is a small town of 12,000 and not many tragedy's occur there. I know ever since then I am deathly afraid when I see lightening. When you are only 12 something like that can scar you for life.
This guy in Sweetwater has a group that I belong too and he put that on today about it. I wouldn't have remembered the date. A lot of people put posts on there about it. Some were there. Some seen it all happen. One girl said she had to go to the hospital and identify the body of one of the girls. That would be a hard thing to do at such a young age.
One lady said it best though. She said," I wonder what the other girls that survived are doing now and how they feel after all this time?" That got me to thinking. I can't remember now if I knew any of them. I didn't see anyone put up a post saying they were one of them. Some people did say they were kin to someone that got hurt.
I just wonder if anyone read some of this that was hurt that day.....
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