This is an old school house right before it was moved to another part of town to be preserved as a historical building. Princeville, Illinois
On September 1 2004, terrorists stormed School Number One and took over 1,100 hostages. In all, more than 330 died, most were children.
From Wikipedia:
The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan massacre) began when a group of armed terrorists, demanding an end to the Second Chechen War, took more than 1,100 schoolchildren and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia-Alania, an autonomous republic in the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation. On the third day of the standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building using tanks, thermobaric rockets and other heavy weapons.
The American Home, located at ul. Letneperevozinskaya 3 in Vladimir, Russia opened in 1992.
buras middle school was destroyed by hurricane katrina...there was a very angry owl living in the gymnasium
Because the terrorists denied the hostages water during the stand off, many of the children resorted to drinking their own urine to stay alive. In addition to flowers, water is left in remembrance.
Because the terrorists denied the hostages water, some resorted to drinking their own urine while others died of dehydration. Water has become an important symbol at the school, as shown by these stone slabs that has water trickling down the front surface.
I never found Valence very attractive. I spend 18 years living around this town, and that special moment must have been the first time I thought it wasn't that bad...
from the postcard writing project at the A4T girls’ school;
"Hello Hi! my name is Mursal I have two sister and i haven't brother and I have a sweet mother and sweet father I am ,12, years old and I am in A4T school in forth class I love my teachers ok good bye Mursal I am from Afghanistan."