Nearly a year later, I still find myself crying when I think of the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre of 20 first graders and their teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Christmas. I didn’t know any of them personally and I don’t live anywhere near Newtown – I live in Atlanta, almost 1,000 miles away. But I am the mother of two stepsons and a 4-year-old little girl who are dearer to me than anything, with another little girl on the way, and I cannot bear to think of the anguish those parents and family members faced that day. Beyond that, I am a human being, and like so many others who heard the news from Newtown from afar, I felt horror and heartbreak on that day last December.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=208388