It is sad to me that so much attention has been drawn over and over again to a horrible event that happened in my hometown when I was in school. I can remember watching it on the news, thinking about my basketball coach, thinking about where my family was.

This horrible event seems to have drawn a lot of just the wrong sort of attention our way, and it’s extreme and unfortunate that it’s happening again, and has continued to. It’s difficult to find relevant information regarding this event outside direct participants, which is unfortunate, and attention seekers have used this event over and over again to draw dangerous lines against our actual rural culture out here.

It is unfortunate and distressing to me that it comes up at all: if you’re into atrocity, there is plenty of that actually happening, and not from dust covered volumes of misinformation. Some of us live and work here year round through nine months of winter with no free vacations and don’t need new excuses for bad company.