School started this week in Anchorage. The yellow buses are back. The blinking yellow lights are back. Parents all over town are congratulating themselves on having survived another summer vacation. Meanwhile, parents in Beslan bury their children and try to get on with their lives in a town where the first day of school went horribly awry.
You shouldn’t have to worry about dying from the simple act of going to school. You shouldn’t have to worry about terrorists taking over your school and holding you for two days in torturous heat with no food or water. The only thing