a quick recount of my memories of the accident.
- I was in 4th grade at Hershey Elementary school
- It happened on a weekday and we were in class
- I remember parents coming to school and taking kids
- I didn’t understand what was going on, at all
- I was more hoping and waiting for my parents to come for me
- They never did!
- Was one of the few riding home on my school bus
- My family didn’t leave
- In fact…my mother volunteered to assist at the Hershey Park Arena
- It was used as a fallout shelter for pregnant women or women with young kids
- She took me…we entered the West entrance and I just recall, as a child, the entire floor of the Arena was filled with refrigerator boxes for people to stay in.
- I had never seen anything like this and it scared me.
Ron