Sandy Hook memorial opens nearly 10 years after 26 killed

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVE COLLINS

NEWTOWN, Ct. (AP) — A memorial to the 20 first graders and six educators killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting opened to the public Sunday, a month before the 10th anniversary of the massacre.

No ceremony was planned at the site a short distance from the school. It has become a custom in Newtown on anniversaries and other remembrances of the shooting to mark them with quiet reflection.

Some victims’ relatives were given a private tour of the grounds on Saturday.

“I think they deserve not to have the bright lights of the world on them,” said Newtown First Selectman Dan Rosenthal, the town’s top elected official.



Flowers lay next to the name of Charlotte Bacon, carved in the stone of a memorial dedicated to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)


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[The Third Doctor]

1. They should force Alex Jones to lay a wreath there.

[peppertree]

3. And to sweep it twice a day

The exercise - and the Zen - would do him a lot of good.

[republianmushroom]

2. I like it

[trickyguy]

4. Quietly beautiful and feflecfive. I am choked up thinking about this event.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. It looks really nice. nt

[StormKing]

6. It will need special protection

I give it a month before one of Alex Jones' douche bags destroys part of it.