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flamin lib

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1. 12/14/2012. It starts all over again . . .
Sat Oct 1, 2016, 02:19 PM
Oct 2016
" every day and walking through Times Square, thinking about those kids and what their last moments were like "

I watched Sandy Hook unfold with my two year old grand daughter in my lap and my six and ten year old grand sons in school a block away.

The thoughts of what those 20 children experienced in the last five minutes of their lives still haunts me. The deafening sound of gunfire in an enclosed space, the screams and calls for mommy and daddy while hoping that Teacher will take care of them. Five hundred rounds fired in five minutes. The most surreal part of the day was the press conference with the coroner. So calm, so professional, taking questions and replying with voice like ordering coffee. Some one asked how he could be so composed. "There's time for that later, right now we have a job to do."

The screaming, the crying, the gunfire. Those precious children are still inside my head today. God help me I can't get them out.

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