My story this week comes from the Daily Mail and
the story reflects 20 years on from the Dunblane Massacre. One of the 12
survivors Aimee Adam spoke on Good Morning Britain this week for the first time
publically since the devastating attack 20 years ago when Thomas Hamilton went
on a shooting rampage at Dunblame Primary School. Aimee Adam was shot twice,
once in the right buttock and once in the right thigh before her PE teacher
Eileen Harrild told her to crawl into the gym cupboard, and it was there that
the then 5 year old school girl blacked out. Aimee had surgery to remove the
bullet from her thigh but it was then that surgeons found another bullet which
had entered near her groin and wedged into the bottom of her back.
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| Aimee Adam with Susanna Reid |
Miss Adam was visibly
upset when talking about the attack and presenter Susanna Reid comforted her as
she spoke about the terrifying ordeal. When asked by Piers Morgan how she felt
about Thomas Hamilton, Aimee replied saying 'I feel bad for him, that his life was so terrible that
he had to ruin other people’s lives. I hate him but he’s gone and he can’t ruin
anybody else’s life’. She then went on to say ‘I just can’t let something like
that beat me because if I did I wouldn’t be the person I am. It sort of made me
who I am’.
To this day, this event remains the deadliest
firearms atrocity in the UK, as in the space of three minutes, Hamilton shot
dead 16 Primary One pupils and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, before turning the
gun on himself.
I found this story particularly interesting
because it has taken this young woman 20 years to be able to talk about the
event that left her paralysed in the right leg from the knee down which has
haunted her for her entire life. She has great courage and bravery and the fact
she wants to further her career in Mental Health nurse caring shows that she
isn’t going to let this devastating event ruin her life or her future.
I found your article particularly interesting as I have come across it before. You clearly stated your opinion and visual examples as well as the content of the story. You could have also included how the media or the source of this article influences the story and to what relevance is it to them. Otherwise well done a very well analysed article.
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