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...morning when the shootings took place, Benjamin Strong was at the breakfast table, munching on Froot Loops and listening to his father, a preacher, read from the book of Proverbs. In his heart, however, the 17-year-old was pondering the words of a classmate. "Don't be at prayer circle on Monday," Michael Carneal had told Strong on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Carneal was a bit of a misfit at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., one who occasionally wore ill-fitting, loud-colored clothes and had a couple of disciplinary problems (browsing the Playboy Website, digging...
...head. I thought he'd wave it around, at worst." Strong hoped his friend was just being sarcastic. He had joked back at the time, saying he would "take him" if anything bad happened. Carneal often hung about with other students in the school lobby, looking on as the prayer circle met, never joining in. And so whatever he imagined, Strong believed there "would be time to negotiate or something." Besides, Strong could not stay away from the prayer circle. He was leading...
Minutes before, at the prayer circle, Strong had seen Carneal enter the lobby, and in his prayer he asked God for strength to last through the day. As the amen was said, the 35 members of the circle squeezed hands--and then came the first shot. "I thought it was probably Mike," says Strong. He turned his eyes on his friend and forcefully said, "Put down the gun." But Carneal continued to fire from the 11-round clip. Strong again spoke the words, receiving only a momentary glance from Carneal. But while other students ran for cover, Strong stood...
...happen to stumble into the deeper part of other people's lives--when they confess a secret love or ambition to you, or when you see a beautiful birthday card lying half-written on a desk, or when you catch them alone crying or in a moment of private prayer...
RICHARD JEWELL His prayers are answered. But you won't have a prayer if he catches you speeding in Luthersville...