Wow, it has been 15 years

[smupony94]

15 years since start of Branch Davidian siege near Waco
2/28/2008 4:38 PM
By: Associated Press

WACO, Texas (AP)

About one dozen law officers today visited the Branch Davidian compound site near Waco to mark 15 years since the beginning of a deadly siege.

Then they went to a service, attended by about 100 people, at a
law enforcement memorial site in Waco.

Four federal agents died and six Davidians were killed in the
February 28th, 1993, shootout that started the 51-day standoff.

Gunfire broke out when officers tried to arrest Davidian leader
David Koresh on charges he was stockpiling guns and
explosives.

About 80 people in the compound died in the April 19, 1993,
blaze that consumed the complex.

The government claims the Davidians committed suicide by setting the fire and shooting themselves.

Survivors say the blaze was started by tear gas rounds fired
into the compound by government tanks, and that agents shot them.

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Yeah, I remember watching it in the lobby of C0ckrell-Macintosh my freshman year. There used to be a guy on my floor(3rd MacIntosh) that used to look like David Koresh and people would call him that. Didn't help he was kinda weird to boot.

[smu diamond m]

Wow. I alluded to this earlier today, and had no idea.


I remember asking my mom (I was 6) if those people were still locked up in Waco. Little did I know what was going on.

[OC Mustang]

Watched the compound raid turn into a rout that Sunday AM at University Crossroads Apartments. Watched the compound burn to the ground in the basement eatery in Hughes-Trigg.

[Samurai Stang]

You Americans just do not understand how to run a suicide cult.

[couch 'em]

I take it you do not find poison as honorable as hara-kiri.