In remembrance of the Children of Beslan - 'Tears for your Children'

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After hearing about the crisis in Beslan, the assault on the Russian school in 2004, I was just overwhelmed with sadness and anger. I just so happened to be recording that day over a track that coincidently had a somber mood to it. So I took all I felt about it and recorded a solo over the track capturing my feelings about the event and named the track "Tears For Your Children".


Just last week, a friend put pictures to that track and created a very powerful statement in the slideshow I'm sharing with you. Be forewarned that it is very sad and contains pictures from the media of the events of those days. Sad but meaningful. "Tears for your Children" is perhaps the most emotional expression I've done to date; a total release of emotion of the event just after it happened.

Another warning: The track contains pictures of the event and is extremely emotional.

A little background on the event follows:

Wednesday, September 1, 2004, a group of men and women armed with assault rifles and grenade launchers seized school No.1 in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia. After a brief shootout, the attackers forced the children, visiting parents and teachers inside the school and announced that they were being held hostage.


There were about 1,300 hostages inside the school and 70 percent were children.


The siege ended Friday, September 3, 2004, in a wave of explosions and gunfire as hostages tried to flee, and special forces and armed civilians tried to aid them. Reports say 326 hostages were killed (186 of them children) and 727 were wounded in the attack.


Officials said 27 hostage-takers (Chechen rebels who'd been fighting Russia and demanding independence for the Muslim-majority republic) were killed and three were arrested alive.