Weird hours, these: you've never really been up this early on a Saturday, and everything has a wholesome glow about it, a late-to-school silence and illumination.
Politicians and gun lobbyists have warped this wisdom to argue that, amid these constant school shootings, silence respects death.
Wild raccoons have invaded the Woodlands Middle School in Lake Worth, Fla., and parents are reaching out to WPEC-TV to break the school's silence,.
Absurdly, not only has this steady propaganda produced a generation schooled in silence and apathy; it has also given birth to successive generations that are wholly ignorant of that period of history.
Coinciding with the trial, a new textbook about the Khmer regime began distribution to the high schools, breaking a silence in the education system that has contributed to widespread ignorance.
With support from the whole community, the gunfire around Omer Bin Abdulaziz school has been silenced.
And it's that same attitude, the same silence, high school coaches are mimicking.
Tomorrow, the school begins its latest "silence the violence" week, an annual program started after Michael's death.
Even two school girls, sketching in silence, politely moved aside when I strained to read the details of one particularly tiny palanquin.
Her son, who asked that his name not be published, collected $850,000 in damages from the school, conditional on his silence.
