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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Massachusetts to Newtown: Share Your Love

Help Patch build a huge virtual card to the Newtown, CT community and let them know they are in your heart and on your mind.

      “There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.” – The Dalai Lama When unthinkable tragedy strikes, we grapple for a way to come to terms with the how and the why. We search for ways to make sense of what happened, even when it doesn't make sense. The horrific shooting that took place at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT on Friday, Dec. 14, stunned a nation as the news broke that not one child, but 20, six- and seven-year-old children and six of their teachers had been shot and killed by a gunman who then took his own life. Most communities can only begin to imagine sorrow …

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Police Release Names of 20 Children, Six Adults Killed in Newtown (in Newtown Patch) and How to Help Families Affected by Newtown School Shooting (in Merrimack Patch)

HJ

9:28 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2013

God bless everyone who was murdered in 2012.   more ›

Friday, December 14, 2012

26, Gunman Dead in Connecticut School Shooting

Local and state police in Newtown, Conn. were called to an elementary school at about 9:30 this morning after a gunman allegedly opened fire at the school.

  NEWTOWN, CT -- Connecticut police said Friday afternoon that 26 people, including 20 children, were killed at an elementary school after a gunman opened fire. Another adult was killed at a second location.   The Scene Police in Newtown were called to the Sandy Hook School at about 9:30 a.m. after receiving a 911 call Friday morning. Authorities said the gunman was found dead inside the school. He was reportedly armed with four guns and a high-powered assault rifle. Authorities said during a press conference that they have retrieved three weapons from the scene. A parent interviewed on CBS News told the network on Friday that his 8-year-old daughter said she heard an argument and cursing over the school’s loudspeaker, apparently coming …

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Police Hope to ID Victims, Shooter in Newtown Killings Saturday (in Newtown Patch)

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Dr. Paul Anderson

2:01 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013

Speaking of Guns, my vintage 1930's Ithaca side by side just arrived home, after some minor repairs completed by an Ithaca Gun Smith, in N.Y.State. Guns brings back some 57 years of wonderful memories with friends and families members, many of which have long since passed away. Memories that these Gun hating Communists in Washington, will do their best to erase from the American Landscape,in an …   more ›

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