The Cokeville Miracle – the American tragedy that never happened
// January 2nd, 2013 // No Comments » // Friendly Ghosts
On May 16, 1986, when former town marshal David Gary Young and his wife Doris Young took 154 children and 13 teachers hostage at Cokeville Elementary school in Wyoming, and kept them at bay with a shopping-cart sized bomb attached to five hairpin-trigger blast caps, it should have ended in great tragedy – one of the worst in American history. Yes, the bomb did explode and it exploded in a room packed full of children, but the only persons to die that day were Mr. Young and his wife. In what is called “The Cokeville Miracle”, the lives of the children and teachers were spared. If you ask residents of the town how such a thing could happen, they will look at you, smile, and answer in one word – Angels.
