At that moment, that earth-shattering scene left me paralyzed; I froze in my tracks, rendered unable to move or utter a sound. Its sheer horror caused my memory to seize up, dredging up scenes eerily similar to the one I witnessed that day—scenes that had become woven into the fabric of my life. Yet now, after all these years, I have come to realize that my eyes had betrayed me on that day; for I saw tears that were never actually shed in that hour, in that place.