Showing my youth...
I was 11 years old when the riots erupted. And I truly did not remember knowing that 55 people died. 55, in 3 days?
What I can remember is not being able to reconcile the anger with the looting and killing. Truly, it seemed to me like some far away place (granted LA is far enough from BOS), but it seemed almost surreal, like it wasn't happening for real. Well, that's what my mind was able to process.
MSN had a nice little piece on it that kind of brought back some of the memories as I was truly having a hard time remembering everything....
http://www.msnbc.com/news/744125.asp?pne=msn&cp1=1