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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Harry, what I learned in a history class is history is always written by the winners.
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There was an explosion at a school in 1937. At least the TSHA mentioned that the bill that could have prevented the explosion had been sitting in the state legislature for 2 years.
The bill was to put an odorant in natural gas.
For more information, it was the New London School Explosion.
Side note: my granddad skipped school that day to work.
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Fascinating about your grandfather.
Yeah, it is a shame that more Americans aren't aware of the explosion. Several
hundred children were killed. It holds the record in the U.S. for deadliest school disaster in the country--there are no other instances that even come close. I wonder if it is not mentioned because it was not done deliberately--terrorism, etc. It does get mentioned occasionally in the news when there is violence with deaths at a school in modern times, to put the modern one "in context" or whatever.