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December 13, 1999 - Dragging Up The Past - Sowing Seeds For The Future

News of the day for December 13, 1999 - Time Magazine releases contents of Columbine Massacre videos, Abner Louima case sentences offending cop to 30 years. Twelve members of unnamed Terrorist group headed by eccentric Billionaire Osama bin Laden arrested in foiled New Years Eve plot. Author Joseph Heller dies.

Nothing like opening fresh wounds around Christmas time.

Columbine High School Massacre gunmen by Time Magazine; a painful event from the previous April, dragged back into the spotlight just in time for the holidays. On the other side of the coin, there was news of a foiled plot by a group of unnamed Terrorists headed and funded by "eccentric billionaire" Osama bin Laden to reek mayhem on New Years eve. Twelve members of the group were arrested and great care was taken not to reveal the name of the country the terrorists came from. Justin Volpe, guilty of torture in the Abner Louima case was sentenced to 30 years in prison and Joseph Heller, the man who gave the world the phrase Catch-22 from his novel of the same name had died.

Interesting day on the whole. If we knew then what we know now . . . . .

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