Hello Neighbors,
My heart is very heavy today, as it is every year on this date since 2012. Eleven years ago we lost 26 innocents in the most horrific way, including 20 first graders. My son was also in his first grade classroom that day, here in Ridgefield, and not a single milestone of his has passed since then when I haven’t thought of the parents of the children who were taken from them that day. Their children didn’t get their drivers licenses this summer, and aren’t writing their college essays or planning for their lives after high school. Their children won’t be celebrating the holidays with them, once again.
I know with living so close to Sandy Hook, I don’t need to remind anyone to keep these families in their thoughts today. It just feels important to say it out loud, or to write it down, so that these children and their brave teachers and staff are never forgotten.
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