"Parkland" has a bad connotation to me. It was the name of the hospital in Dallas where JFK died.

[CTyankee]

I was born and raised in Dallas. Parkland Hospital was a big name in that city. And it was the hospital where JFK was rushed after he was shot.

This is a double whammy to me in my memory. The name is forever engraved in my head as that hospital in Dallas, not the town or city in Florida. How sad.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. How well I remember that name. I was 13.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. What grade? What class? Where?

[CurtEastPoint]

18. 8th grade, McClintock Jr High, Charlotte, NC

I remember it like it was yesterday. Our lives changed.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. Me

6th grade art class Manchester ct. 9-11 worst for me

[Horse with no Name]

2. I walk the halls of Parkland every day

It always brings a sadness especially now that there is a new hospital with the same name.

[CTyankee]

4. I didn't know that. I never returned to Dallas after both my parents and my only brother died.

I buried them and never returned and I never wanted to. I'm sad in many ways but not for leaving Dallas. I left to go to school in the northeast and never returned except to visit. My brother's daughter was killed in a family handgun related shooting and my brother was never the same. He died about a year afterwards.

A handgun shooting incident in Dallas. What a surprise. It killed my brother and my neice's sister went into the ministry as a result.

I will of course never set foot in Dallas, or anywhere in Texas, again. And I am a 3rd generation Texan...

[Horse with no Name]

6. It was just built in the last few years

The old part still houses clinical space.
It is hallowed ground.
I wish I was in the position to leave. I can’t even though I have wanted to for some time.
The good thing....Dallas is blue.
I would be lying if I said you were missing something by not returning.

[CTyankee]

7. Oh, I know that. I am fully cognizant of that change. Dallas was never an "oil city" like Houston

back in the day. Dallas depended on the financial city. My investment guy is still in Ft. Worth (which we in Dallas called "cowtown&quot . All different now. Dallas-Ft. Worth is one city practically now.

I am a 3rd generation Texan . I am not proud of that. Why should I be? It is just my family history. But when I was little it was drilled into me to be so proud to be a Texan (and also a southerner, but that's another story).

When I went away to college at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Institute of Technology) I was lectured by my aunt who said to me "All your people are southern people."

Long time ago. Things have changed...

[3catwoman3]

15. Such sadness for your family, CTyankee.

I hope you are OK.

I was stationed in San Antonio for 2 years in the mid 1970s while in he AF nurse corps. I didn't much care for it. I grew up in western upstate NY, and it was just too different (and too damn hot).

[CTyankee]

16. Thanks, I'm fine. Keeping this " southern people" stuff alive is ridiculous and racist.

I am happy where I am now.

[rzemanfl]

3. +1 n/t.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Every time I've heard it in the school massacre context, I also think of the hospital

[roamer65]

8. I wondered if I was the only one with the same thought.

I’m not.

[CTyankee]

9. It is comforting, I guess, to know that others feel the same.

Texas. Florida. How many other places are we gonna see this senseless gun violence?

It is depressing that we haven't learned from our folly...

[EffieBlack]

10. I've been thinking the same thing since the shooting

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. How r u doing girl! Have missed u

[CTyankee]

17. I'm good! How are you?

[dflprincess]

13. I thought of that as well. nt

[ellie]

14. That was the first thing I thought of.

[fescuerescue]

19. That was the first thing I thought of when I heard Parkland in the news

Confused me in fact for a good 30 seconds until the details became a little more clear.

[CTyankee]

20. I know. It takes a moment to process "Parkland" and then move to the FL city...

sad in the whole entireity, tho.

Parkland. Forever.

[CTyankee]

23. I can't say that better than you. Thanks for your response.