It's Still Pretty Cool After All These Years

It was 15 years ago today that a few students in Burleson, Texas gathered around their flagpole and prayed for their tecahers, their administration and their lives.

This morning, some 250,000 teenagers on six continents will continue that same tradition. The third Wednesday in September. Every year.

It doesn't make the news much anymore. It doesn't gather the headlines. I mean, after all this time, there aren't many new angles to tell the story. There are only so many photographs and images of kids praying with the sun coming up that can get in a paper.

Yes, there's a web-site (www.syatp.com) with all sorts of gizmos and gadgets and things to buy and ways to report and full of legal mumbo jumbo. Yes, it's gone commercial.

But it's still cool to think that they care enough to do it. At least it is to me.