December 14, 2012:
Remember that Day
Part I
Remember those teachers.
Remember those other teachers, the ones who helped, the ones who saved other children.
Remember the school principal.
Remember the police officers.
Remember the Emergency Medical Technicians, the fire personnel and other first responders.
Remember the doctors and nurses and hospital personnel who cared for the children.
Remember those who cleaned the site.
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Remember those parents.
Remember those siblings.
Remember those children that died. Remember their pain. Remember their fear.
Remember those children that survived. Remember their pain. Remember their fear.
Remember that those who live in that town will never forget.
Remember that for all of them, this will go on forever, while we go on with our lives.
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Remember too a very troubled young man.
Remember too his mother who also died that day.
Remember too their families. They are in pain also.
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Remember Newtown, Connecticut, December 14, 2012.
©Daniel Mark Extrom 2013. All rights reserved.
