A Tribute to all the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, CT.
Who kills children? 20 children? At school?
Senseless!
On the afternoon of the Sandy Hook massacre, I drove to go pick up my kids from school. Tears fell down my face as I drove. I imagined having my kids in Sandy Hook and not knowing…
Senseless!
When I finally drove up and saw their smiling and impish faces, more tears welled up. I had to hide them.
I hugged them when we got home. Really tight. It didn’t matter what trouble my son had caused that day, I hugged him extra long and covered my daughter’s faces with kisses. I had them back. Up in Newtown, CT, some parents were not so lucky.
Senseless!
The teachers who rushed to protect their wards. The principal. Families broken, forever.
Senseless!
As a physician, I know minds can be sick. Mental illness is a a scourge that seems to lurk, poking it’s ugly head out in ways that can be rather heartbreaking. Great strides have been made in treating them but first, they have to be diagnosed. The patients and their families have to be willing and compliant. There must be an awareness. However, when the mentally ill have easy access to guns, because of a permissive culture, isn’t that senseless?
Senselessly Senseless?
My heart breaks for all this families starring at Christmas trees that cry to be decorated and yearn for voices that shriek with delight as presents are unwrapped.
My heart breaks for mothers who aren’t home anymore, husbands sleeping alone, daughters who won’t hug one more time.
That didn’t need to happen, but life being what it is allows the good, the bad and the ugly.
It allows the senseless!
And for that, there usually aren’t any answers.
May their souls find eternal rest.