I had the joy this year of attending my granddaughter’s high school graduation party. I sat back and watched her celebrate with her friends. They laughed, danced, swam, talked and reminisced over their years together. It was wonderful.
They will now all go on to the next chapter in their lives and hopefully reunite at some point and share their adventures with each other.
Families will rejoice over their accomplishments and the graduates, if they choose, will someday begin families of their own.
All of a sudden, it hit me like a brick.
My granddaughter belongs to the same graduating class as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. Those students should have been graduating, celebrating, joyfully sharing their memories and looking forward to their next chapters. I can’t even imagine what their families are feeling this year and what those Sandy Hook survivors who graduated were thinking. I suspect it was a rather somber graduation, with 20 members of their class absent.
Our country abandoned those young students on Dec. 14, 2012. We responded with a warped interpretation of a now 233-year-old amendment that has very little place in a modern society. We callously tossed those children aside, without a second thought. In God’s good name, who are we?…Read more by
