農家の暮らし

　早朝のNHKラジオニュースで、ビンガムトンの銃撃事件を聞く。何であんなに静かな町でと思う。現地のメディアを見ると、現地の人の声が次のように出ている。大変お世話になった町でこのような事件が発生して残念だ。亡くなった人のご冥福を祈ります。
“I can’t believe that this wonderful, beautiful little city would have this kind of experience. It’s just amazing.”

　以下は、NYTの記事抜粋。
14 Dead in Rampage in Binghamton, N.Y.

A gunman invaded an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton, N.Y., during citizenship classes on Friday and shot 13 people to death and critically wounded 4 others before killing himself in a paroxysm of violence that turned a quiet civic setting into scenes of carnage and chaos.

Binghamton, a city of about 43,000 at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers in the Southern Tier, some 175 miles