Newtown Quietly Marks 3rd Anniversary of School Shooting
Source: ABC News
Flags are flying at half-staff across Connecticut in honor of the 26 people killed three years ago in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Monday is the anniversary of the attack in which a gunman killed 20 first-grade children and six educators after shooting his way into the school on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012. The shooter also fatally shot his mother inside their home and killed himself after the rampage.
Houses of worship are holding memorial services, but the town is not planning any events to mark the anniversary. An interfaith community service at a Newtown church Monday evening is expected to include prayers, music and the lighting of candles.
Local groups are offering counseling and support services for residents who might want to use them Monday.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/newtown-quietly-marks-3rd-anniversary-school-shooting-35755991
And how have we served their memory? Pretty piss-poorly, I think.
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Moms hold in our hearts those who died at #SandyHook three years ago today, and pledge to never be silent again.
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(3,911 posts)An article from December 20, 2012.
Simons Rock shooting, 20 years later
Some of those watching the aftermath of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., may wonder what would happen if such a disaster were to take place in The Berkshires. Long-time area residents, however, know that a school shooting has already happened here.
On Dec. 14, 1992, Wayne Lo, an 18-year-old student at Simons Rock College in Great Barrington, went on a shooting spree, wounding four people and leaving 18-year-old poetry major Galen Gibson and 37-year-old Spanish Professor Ñacuñán L. Sáez dead. After his gun jammed during the shooting, Mr. Lo called the police and surrendered to them.
Guns suck.