It was on this date eight years ago that an obscenely well-armed coward stormed the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and murdered twenty children and six adults.
The families directed affected by that day's violence, which forever altered their dynamics and their trajectories, have worked very hard since remembering those lost and honoring their lives. It is incumbent upon us, the living, to do likewise in whatever way, large or small, we can.
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Connecticut Post
-AK
Thanks for remembering and honoring the victims of that horrible crime, Adam. I still have trouble thinking about it but we all need to force ourselves to reckon with it and everything about it -- especially the loss of life, the shattered lives of the victims' families, and the cowardly failure of our elected leaders to lift a finger to stop this from happening again. I didn't sleep for three days and nights after this happened. That didn't do one bit of good for anyone. But I couldn't stop thinking about those kids and their families. I still get choked up about them today and probably always will.
ReplyDeleteJeremy:
DeleteI appreciate the kind words and, more so, your thoughts. "Cowardly failure of our elected leaders" is as apt and as fair a description of what has happened (or not happened) in this country for far too many years. As parents, and in my case now as a grandparent, we tell ourselves the necessary lie that we will and can keep our children safe from the world's evils. We say it, we mean it, and in our hearts, we hope like hell that against all odds we are right.