UNFATHOMABLE TRAGEDY - Shooting at an Elementary School

During the past few days, the news and media are discussing the shooting at an elementary school in CT.  Horrific is more likely the word to describe the scene of this tragedy.  Twenty children murdered and six adults - not including the shooter who committed suicide after his rampage and his own mother prior to this insanity.  

This is probably a mothers or fathers worst nightmare!  We rush to drop our children off to school in the morning in order for us to get to work in a timely manner.  Not one thought given to the safety of our children.  Early Friday morning on the 14th, ten days before Christmas - twenty parents after arriving at work and settling into their daily schedule received that call.  "There was an emergency at the school, please come immediately!"  The fear that enters every parents' mind - WHAT HAPPENED?!  Nothing can come close to their minds with what those parents were greeted with as they enter the vicinity of their child's school.  Rescue vehicles, Ambulances, Bomb Squad, Fire Dept., Police Dept., FBI and men in tactical gear is what surrounded an elementary school in a quiet suburban area.  All those parents were told to go to the Firehouse Station that was across the way from the school - to pick up your child or to be told  that your child was one of the victims!  The anxiety, the panic, the anguish, that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach and the sheer terror one must feel taking those steps from the road entering the school towards the Fire Station.  Then to realize that your child is NOT one of those victims and the relief comes pouring out in tears as you hug your child...

Twenty parents were NOT fortunate!  Twenty mothers were told their precious child will never come home!  Twenty families are now left with a void for the rest of their life.  There will be at least twenty gifts unopened under the Christmas Tree for the next 40 years!  

"There are no words" told to a news reporter by one of the "lucky" parents who said what can you say to a parent that was NOT "so lucky"...

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Daniel Barden, 7

Rachel Davino, 29

Olivia Engel, 6

Josephine Gay, 7

Ana Marquez-Greene, 6

Dylan Hockley, 6

Dawn Hocksprung, 47

Madeline Hsu, 6

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Chase Kowalski, 7

Jesse Lewis, 6

James Mattioli, 6

Grace McDonnell, 7

Anne Marie Murphy, 52

Emilie Parker, 6

Jack Pinto, 6

Noah Pozner, 6

Caroline Previdi, 6

Jessica Rekos, 6

Avielle Richman, 6

Lauren Rousseau, 30

Mary Sherlach, 56

Victoria Soto, 27

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Allison Wyatt, 6

      

MAY YOU ALL REST IN PEACE...