Today my heart has been breaking for people Ive never met , in a town Ive never even heard of before today.  The place is Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown Connecticut.Twenty-nine people died today because of one person. Twenty of them were children. Many of them from the sounds of it, kindergartners . Irregardless of age , those who were brutally murdered were innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and in a path of a mentally unstable man , who went there to do this deed. In a place that everyone assumed was perfectly safe.

My youngest is in kindergarten. This hits way to close to home. I can't help but compare it to little B's school and classmates. I keep picturing the little faces scared and not knowing what was going on. Quite possibly crying for their moms and dads who were at work or home thinking their children were safe at school. Going about their day thinking it was going to be like any other day , preparing for the weekend, and Christmas.

This should have been like any other Friday. They shouldn't be waiting to hear if their child was one of them that died. They shouldn't be having to plan a funeral for their child when they should be figuring out what to dress them in for Christmas pictures and what other presents their child would love for Christmas.

 

Then we have the adults who died because of this man. Ive heard the principal and school psychologist who both loved their students dearly ,and tried always to do what was best for the kids they worked with. That they would have done anything they could do to protect the children. And they did , as did other adults who died there today. The adults who died there at the school today gave their lives trying to protect the innocent children at Sandy Hook school from a madman. Another of his victims was his very own mother who irregardless of her profession , she was a mother ,and loved her kids. Every adult there with the exception of one loved their kids , either by birth or by education and would have died to protect them . 

From the principal , the special ed teacher , the school psychologist, the teachers to the janitor who ran down the hallways to warn of the attack , everyone tried to protect the kids from harm.. and each other too.

 

The only man who didn't have the children's best interest in mind was the bastard who killed them.I have to ask myself about his brother who was found in the woods wearing camouflage today who simply stated " I didn't do it:" . Did he know what was going on and yet he fail to make a simple phone call that could have stopped this tragedy from happening all together. Twenty-nine people including the shooter and his own mother .. Insane.

I can not begin to wrap my head around the tragedies that have occurred in the past few days. . My heart breaks for the families and loved ones at Sandy Hook Elementary.

My heart breaks for the families of the victims in China after their tragedy today , and the families from those who were killed in Oregon on Tuesday on what was supposed to be a simple shopping trip to the mall.  None of this should have happened , senseless murders. My thoughts and prayers to all the families , I will light a candle in memory of the children and the adults who have lost their lives. I will light my candle for peace for the families . I will remember.

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