It was just a normal day I was sitting at my job looking out the
big picture windows.
I happened to notice parents walking their small children to
school.
From the looks and smiles on their faces I imagined them talking
about the excitement of the coming holidays and looking forward to the end of
the school week.
There was a father and son sharing smiles and chatting, mothers
and daughters laughing while other small children ran ahead down the side walk.
Some parents were pushing their smallest of children in
strollers.
That’s when it sunk in. I thought to myself that it was a day
just like any other ordinary day for the school children and their parents in
the small town of Connecticut.
They may have been happily looking forward to the holidays or
talking about what the afternoon activities would be after school.
No one would have suspected that for 20 families it would be the
last treasured moments they would get to spend with one another.
A kiss and a hug goodbye and a see you later never knowing that
later would mean the most tragic and crushing moment of your lives.
Twenty families 26 in all received the most devastating news no
parent or child wants to hear.
A nation sat and watched in agony and hoped that the news would
not bring what everyone feared.
Parents of the students in the school rushed with panic and fear
for their children.
I cannot nor do I ever want to know what that feeling must have
been like for those parents.
My heart breaks to even try.
Unfortunately we all received the horrible news of 26 killed
with 20 of the innocent slain being that of small children.
The gunman a 20yr old man with a mental illness took his life as
police moved in.
How could this happen? Why did this happen?
We may never know the answer.
People have labeled the 20yr old as a monster for nothing short
could have done something this evil.
It’s the only way to make sense of the destruction of what on
happened that day.
School is supposed to be a sanctuary a place for higher learning
but what we learn from this tragedy is nothing in today’s world has such the
honor.
These children who were mere babies in our eyes were slain in
the most unthinkable way.
Teachers and administrators who are considered heroes in the
classroom died trying to protect their students, their kids.
Sadly they could not for the 20yr old intruder came prepared and
armed for the mission he set himself to do.
There will be out cries for gun control from those against guns and
from those who oppose any law that they feel threatens their second amendment
rights of the Constitution. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/second_amendment
The news media will cover this sad story as they have done
before.
They will demonstrate empathy and concern but eventually they will
go on to the next story just as they have done before.
Politicians will proclaim something must be done with loud spoken
voices clinched fist in all. Those for and against any laws that might bring
about change will shout their forms of rhetoric from their pulpits.
A lot of noise will be generated but little will be done as they
too will become still in their actions.
Politics are guided by a higher power the almighty dollar.
Some will wrap themselves in The Constitution of the U.S. clutching
it as if it were an endangered species. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/
It’s just a clever disguise to cater to the organizations/business
that stands to profit the most. America will not lose our guns and our option
to shoot, kill or maim anyone who trusts passes against us (or who doesn’t).
Nothing will be done. Life (and death no matter how horrible) will
go on in these United States of America.
It's sad but true; you see the proof is in the pudding as they
say.
The children and the adults lost in this massacre will be
forever remembered and memorialized by their families, friends and the
community of Newtown, Ct.
A community of people, families and friends who before that day
were unknown to the world are now forever linked with the ugliness of this
unthinkable horror. We have unfortunately had this sort of tragedy happened far too many times in today’s society.
The waves of extended victims as a result of this tragic event have
suffered a horrible rip in the fabric of their lives.
It is a rip that cannot be repaired only mended with time.
It is a rip that cannot be repaired only mended with time.
The parents, the children and all who have been touched in this
small town will need lots and lots of time. They will need time to recover but I'm not sure about healing.
I'm not sure how anyone heals from the lost of a child or any loved one for that matter.
I'm not sure how anyone heals from the lost of a child or any loved one for that matter.
The trickle of parents and their children slowly trail off
outside the window their smiles and faces etched in my mind.
I only wished the reason I noticed these faces were not because
of the heartbreak and loss that the families and people of Newtown, Ct. are
going through now.
Written By: Larry D. Miller
