And why is it, that a school is no longer a safe environment for our kids? As an educator, and as a person who adores children, this not only angers me to an extreme extent, but causes me immense heartbreak.
These children's parents should be planning Christmas mornings, not funerals. Those kids had every right to graduate, get a job, enjoy birthdays, play in the water every summer, find love, and have kids of their own.
They had every right to see the new year. But they are forever frozen in 2012.
And for that, there is no justice. There is no peace of mind. There is only the anger, sadness, tears and rage that drives the fire, ensuring this kind of tragedy never happens to another educator, or another child ever again.
And to do that, we must not forget.
We cannot forget the slaughter of those twenty innocent children, and those brave six teachers and educators. We cannot forget the feeling of sheer terror we all felt, when the live coverage of the event flooded every TV station. We cannot forget the images we saw of the neighbors, coworkers, friends, sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers. We cannot forget the sensation when the breathe was knocked out of us, as we heard all twenty-six names of the dead in President Obama's speech. We cannot forget the names of those children. We cannot forget the faces of those children.
We cannot forget
Noah
Emelie
Jack
Jessie
Victoria
Grace
Catherine
Dawn
Mary
Lauren
Olivia
Rachel
Jessica
Ana
Charlotte
Daniel
Josephine
Chase
James
Dylan
Anne
Avielle
Benjamin
