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What an awesome place this school was & still is, even though time & weather, along with vandals, haven't been too kind to her, she is still there & looks to be standing strong. I hope she'll be there as long as her frame allows her to be.

Was security flying in a helicopter, as the moon in the background looks like a search light mounted under a helicopter doing a sweep of the place as it flies over.

This is an awesome shot of the place & I agree, the moon in the background really makes this shot even nicer.

This is an impressive shot of this place, I really like this view. It really shows the size of this place & the colors are nice too, the brickwork, the roof tiles & the plant life all around the building.

bsmarcia,
Thanks for replying. I realize we aren't arguing just relaying what each of us knows. I know from good people in these places because it is only due to one that I am alive and able to be writing this. But you must realize to an abused child the abuse is all the exists until they are taken away from it even if there are nice things going on in between the episodes of abuse. And often the nice things just don't get mentioned. Why take on responsibility for what others did?

I also came here today to address something I read on here a few weeks ago but don't want to look up today. The person posted about how they saw patients on the street who always waved at them and their mother told them not to wave back because they would follow you home. They posted this as if it were some sort of proof of defectiveness at least that is how I took it. It isn't.
That sort of sudden attachment is due to being starved for affection. They were probably never treated like normal people. I'm sure no one took time to get to know them personally and have personal discussions with them that all children need let alone allowed them to emotionally bond and learn about being human because along with that idea of following you home and many other urban legends and distortions of normal behavior until the mid 70's emotional attachment wasn't even acknowledged as being essential for human development. Many abusers used knowledge that it was and the false concept that it wasn't in practice this to inflict torment and use the reaction to that torment as an excuse for some physical punishment.
The lack emotional attachment to a specific person makes people do things that others who have had it but aren't aware of it will misinterpret. When you see teen boys or even men who attach too quickly to women this is what that is. They have been starved for affection and also probably starved of proper prepubescent opposite sex bonding experiences. The early life relationships with the opposite sex sets the pattern for ones behavior and ability as an adult unless one knows and acts to try to learn what is missing one is stuck with what one learned as a child. Thus if all the members of the opposite sex are dishonest and untrustworthy as a child one cannot trust the opposite sex as an adult. But one only knows untrustworthy people whom one loved so one is doomed to pick untrustworthy opposite sex partners as that is all one knows. Honest partners will often trigger fear and make one pull away due to not being able to understand it.
Well there's my rant have a nice day

Lemon meringue.

Beautiful, Motts!

Reminds me of pink Floyd's album 'The wall'…… for some reason…

Wait, it's pink? Looks red to me

That's my favorite color!!

Also the color of my room O.o

EEEEE! I'd hate to go down THAT hallway!

Byzantium. Mosaic. Stunning. One, among many, that actually made me gasp.

well, not to jump on the band wagon or anything, but.. in my opinion, it is extremely messed up to be stealing from a place like this. whoever did is asking for some serious issues with the spirits who still linger in those buildings. it really wasn't smart. plus, SO MANY people lived, never saw their families, then died in those buildings. so to steal from those helpless people, even if they aren't "there" anymore is wrong in so many ways. people, think about the things you do before you do them. what if somebody just went in your home and stole something special to you? you have some issues if you can just do things like that without thinking twice about it. just saying.

Lynn,

You are correct , for the most part... You did in fact leave out the "bad" things that were going on inside the school. Please keep in mind these children were outcast by their family, doctors & society. There was no explination why these children were the way they were. There were very many horrible explainations (which today do not make sense) of what was wrong with them. Although many were taken care of, a lot of them were horribly tortured. The things that went on there were inhumane.

I can appreciate you ripping people new asses because of their ignorance of the Dever school but please do not allow yourself to fall into the same catergory.

As for your "btw comment"... they were in fact military, i guess you could call them jails, during WWII. They housed German & Italian prisoners.

Good luck with your further research before you decide to say who is ignorant and who is not.

@MamaToFiveInPA I think it looks older than that, My Grandfather had A 1918 model T ford with wooden spooked rims that looked just like that and the hospital did open in 1904 might be something the person had owned or wanted?

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