Did Tears Fall for the Children of Palo Alto?
The night storm had vanished and I looked at broken black clouds over the city of Palo Alto . Rain had plummeted day after day, pelting the ground in a concert of constant deluge until at last dawn hours stirred. I viewed a wet street empty save for solitary cars directed east or west across a Caltrain railroad track. It was 2011. A stretch of Caltrain track in Palo Alto One after another students from Palo Alto´s highly accredited high schools were awaiting death on the track in the path of oncoming trains. This epidemic of suicide had alerted the media. ABC and NBC news reporters appeared with cameramen to interview local officials. I guarded the tracks as a security officer. I witnessed how these calamities wounded the heart of this town in California´s wealthy Silicon Valley. Downtown Palo Alto This blond, slender 40-something woman always wearing blue jeans walked daily, across the track on the...