Another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school in Connecticut, transfixed the nation in an achingly familiar ritual of sorrow and shock.
Twenty young children, at the age where losing a tooth should be the limits of their trauma, were shot to death. Six of their teachers and caretakers died with them inside Sandy Hook Elementary. Tiny survivors fanning out into neighboring fields or being led to safety, hands on each other’s shoulders, became the images of national heartbreak.
And the plaintive cry of child survivors, “I want to go home,” could have been the plea of a nation.
“I know there is not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do,” a teary-eyed President Obama said hours after the shooting.
[alert type=”blue”]Source: USA Today[/alert]
