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12/14/12, 05:28 PM
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I am utterly speechless about the tragedy in CT
We are deeply saddened by today's events.
I cannot even begin to understand or comprehend the tragedy in Connecticut.
I cannot imagine the shock and sorrow that the parents of these little children are enduring. The pain of today's horrific shooting will change all those who were involved, and will have everlasting effects.
I am rarely at a loss for words, but today, I am full of sadness, and am utterly speechless. The writing of this post has been difficult. The entirety of today's tragedy is absolutely beyond the scope of my imagination.
Please join me in your thoughts and prayers for the families, the school and the community.
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12/14/12, 05:52 PM
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This has been so heartbreaking.. I can't imagine going to the school and my child not coming out of it...my heart is so burdened and so very broken for these families..
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12/14/12, 05:56 PM
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I have not cried over a tragedy since 9/11. This, however, has been so horrid on so many levels. My DD thinks I have lost my mind and tells me to stop hugging her cause I am choking her. She is 7, right about the age of those sweet innocent babies.
Please keep the first responders in your prayers too. I cannot fathom being on that scene.
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12/14/12, 05:57 PM
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I will never understand how someone could do ANYTHING to a child.
Even the Christian part of me hopes this guy ends up somewhere less than pleasant...
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12/14/12, 08:04 PM
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It completely overshadows the personal sorrows many of us are facing. I just cannot comprehend someone doing this, and it's happening all too often. I just don't know the answer. It isn't something a surgeon can remove, treat and the families will recover from. Counseling won't replace the children. Nothing will ever be the same for those 20 families.
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12/14/12, 08:15 PM
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There are no words. All involved, especially the parents of the children lost are in my prayers. I can't imagine what they are going through.
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12/14/12, 08:22 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by irregardless
Even the Christian part of me hopes this guy ends up somewhere less than pleasant...
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No worries. Remember that "millstone around the neck" thing? Yeah - God will judge rightly.
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12/14/12, 08:23 PM
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I am filled with sorrow.
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12/14/12, 08:25 PM
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I have no other words but that my heart is broken and my prayers are with them.
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12/14/12, 08:25 PM
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There are no words....
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12/14/12, 08:58 PM
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This is horrible beyond belief. As for the shooter, he was mentally ill. We can't figure out why he did this because we don't have his sick mind. When I was a child, folks who were "crazy" were sent to the mental hospital until they were safe to go home. Then the laws changed and they shut down the mental hospitals and said it was against their civil rights. Now you can't take them in unless they hurt someone but by then it is too late. I just think it is sad all the way around, even for the shooter, his mom that he killed and there family. God help us all.
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12/14/12, 09:00 PM
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It is very disturbing. Can't even imagine the scene the first responders came into, they are scarred for life just like the surviving children.
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12/14/12, 09:04 PM
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It is so hard to understand.
I was giving my little ones a bath tonight (eldest is 6 and in 1st grade) and thinking about the mamas who have no baby to hold after today. I'm setting out matching Christmas dresses for pictures with Santa tomorrow, matching headbands, new Christmas tree earrings and feeling so very grateful that mine are safe home with me.
I simply do not know how you would carry on after something so tragic. Like PPs I've not cried this hard since 9/11-or felt this conflicted and unable to understand the evil that lies in the heart of so many.
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12/14/12, 09:16 PM
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How does a mother go to bed after loosing their baby to a nutcase??????????? It is now 10:15 pm and I'm waiting for the last of my kids to come home so I can go to bed. My babies will be home safe and I won't be going to bed wondering if they were afraid when they died - or if they were in pain - or crying for me.
I agree - I'm feeling the same way as on 9-11. Absolutely disgustingly sick to my stomach - and in my heart. Those poor, sweet babies.
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12/14/12, 09:19 PM
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Just terrible and beyond understanding. I had to go to the city today, and on the radio as I was gassing up to come home. A bit later my 77 to dad called me and I could tell he was crying. He had just heard. We live in a sad world.
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12/14/12, 09:41 PM
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There are no words for todays tragedy & I will never understand how anyone can do something so horrific as long as I live. My thoughts & prayers are definately with the family of those children.
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12/14/12, 10:00 PM
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People EVIL visited that town today. Horrific evil to be sure. Angels surrounded that school today taking all those little babies home. Yes it is the death of innocence. These may not be the right words. Remember the Amish children killed in PA a few years back. The child on the television report said "We locked the door to keep the animal out." GOD BLESS the families who lost babies today.
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12/14/12, 10:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Kay
This is horrible beyond belief. As for the shooter, he was mentally ill. We can't figure out why he did this because we don't have his sick mind. When I was a child, folks who were "crazy" were sent to the mental hospital until they were safe to go home. Then the laws changed and they shut down the mental hospitals and said it was against their civil rights. Now you can't take them in unless they hurt someone but by then it is too late. I just think it is sad all the way around, even for the shooter, his mom that he killed and there family. God help us all.
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Miss Kay, you've said what I have been thinking all day. My own mother was schitzophrenic - but that was back in the 50's & 60's. When she got dangerous a family member went before the court, described her behaviour and she was committed once again to a mental hospital until she was safe.
Now the mentally ill and addicted crazies are let loose on us all.
I should hold my breath but I've been thinking all day how fortunate I am that my grand babies go to school on a remote island safe from the insanity....but today's tragedy teaches us anything can happen, anywhere. A lot of tears flowing today, even way up here.
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12/15/12, 03:00 AM
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Praying for everyone affected by this terrible tragedy. My heart breaks for all of them.
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12/15/12, 05:37 AM
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Im having trouble processing this horror this morning. The why,s...Those poor babies...
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