Kids draw the darnedest things.

• Author: Gillespie, Nick
• Position: Artifact; Waco raid recalled - Brief article

EARLIER THIS YEAR, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives posted the winners of their Kid's Art Contest online at atf. gov/kids/kids_art_main.htm. The agency "requested artwork from ATF employees' children under the age of 14 that depicted what they thought their parents did at work."

Pictured above is a winning entry drawn by a 6-year-old. Ostensibly a drawing of an ATF agent investigating a church arson, the image, especially the ambiguous child-like figure on the left side, eerily calls to mind the ATF'S central role in the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas. That confrontation--which started with a bungled...