I was in class as well when it happened... And I think the most frightening prospect that comes out fo this is not the horrific toll of death that the incident itself caused, but the prospect of war in this day and age. My parents lived through university under the doomsday clock, slowly moving towards midnight (I think the closest it got was 3 seconds away)... A war would be disastrous.
I have, and will continue to, pray for the families of the injured/dead, but most importantly, I will pray for a level-headed resolution to this issue. To see the news jumping to conclusions last night about the fires in Kabul, Afghanistan was scary... They were talking as if the US was already at war... And then it finally dawned on them that it *could* be one of the Afghani opposition forces at work, you know, since they are in the middle of a civil war. I think we also have to pray that the media does *not* make this any worse than it already is... If the media jumps to conclusions, we could have a bigger situation on our hands than what we already have.
I don't mean to sound like I don't care about what has happened. That being far from the truth, what I mean by all this is that the dead are, unfortunately, dead. There will be a lot of mourning, and a lot of consoling and counseling. But, what needs to be concentrated the most on is the international resolution of this event, or we could all become at risk.