The Travon Martin case is one that really has people in an uproar. Travon was a 17 year old who was unarmed and shot and killed in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012 by George Zimmerman, who was conducting a neighborhood watch.

The neighborhood where the fatality occurred was a gated community, and Travon was there visiting the house of his father’s fiancé. Travon Martin is from Miami, Florida.

Now I was not there, so I cannot tell you what happened. But after listening to the many accounts and versions of the story, I can say this: something terrible went wrong, and a young life was taken away.

George Zimmerman has been interviewed by the Sanford Police Department, but has not been arrested.

Dear Editor:

It wasn’t long ago that the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) could be relied on to rail against the inadequacies and inequities suffered by the state’s poorest school children.

But now there are lingering questions about who the union is actually fighting for these days.

I join in condemning the offensive attitude displayed by NJEA boss Vincent Giordano, who simply dismissed the critical needs of poor children in failing schools by saying “life’s not always fair” – the modern-day equivalent of “let them eat cake.”

The Oct. 5 death of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, 56, had an effect on a West Orange woman's visit to a local Apple store and a Montclair woman's home research.

"My 14-year-old son wanted to go to the Apple Store in the Short Hills Mall after Steve Jobs died," said Janet Dorfman, of West Orange. "He and his generation grew up on Mac computers, phones and pads. He was reading everything on Jobs since his death."

Dorfman, a librarian, arranged to have a memorial display by the Bloomfield Public Library's reference section. The standalone display included Jobs' portrait, one of his quotes and several books on Apple computers.

Dorfman added that the Millburn Short Hills Mall Apple store, unlike others around the world did not have a makeshift memorial. A woman answering the store's telephone 5 p.m. Oct. 12 said that the store received "several Post-It notes and flowers."

Every so often, I go up to Eagle Rock Park to look at the Memorial Wall, and read the names of those who were killed in the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. As I read the list, I try to think back on what I was doing that morning. It was 9:15 AM or there about; I was teaching a class in Christian Ethics at a college in Massachusetts. In the midst of the class a student who usually came to class late rushed in and said, “Dr. Kennedy you can mark me late if you want, I don’t care. I am late because two planes have just struck the Twin Towers in New York. Everything seems to be in confusion. Turn on the Television, if you don’t believe me.” I quickly took out the video I was about to show the class and turned on the TV and there it was, fires burning. After catching a breath, one student reported that his mother works in one of the Towers. Another said her cousin was there. I quickly dismissed the class and ran across the Campus to the president’s office to give my advice that he was to prepare for a special chapel and do so urgently. He immediately stopped what he was doing and as talked a little about the tragedy, students began to bring reports that their parents, relatives and friends were supposed to be at work in the Towers. The rest of the day was as it was in many places; shock, ambivalence, despair, vulnerability, helplessness, anger, and rage, all of those feelings that come with tragedy.