I have seen and answered many questions relating to the shooting on Friday. How about we pay a little respect to the families and save the arguments for later? Here are the profiles of the two little boys being burried today.
-- Jack Pinto, Male, 05-06-06
Jack Pinto was a huge New York Giants fan.
New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz said he talked to Pinto's family, which is considering burying the 6-year-old boy in Cruz's No. 80 jersey.
Cruz honored Jack Sunday on his cleats, writing on them the words "Jack Pinto, My Hero" and "R.I.P. Jack Pinto."
"I also spoke to an older brother and he was distraught as well. I told him to stay strong and I was going to do whatever I can to honor him," Cruz said after the Giant's game with the Atlanta Falcons. "He was fighting tears and could barely speak to me."
Cruz said he plans to give the gloves he wore during the game to the boy's family, and spend some time with them.
"There's no words that can describe the type of feeling that you get when a kid idolizes you so much that unfortunately they want to put him in the casket with your jersey on," he said. "I can't even explain it."
Jack's funeral is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday at the Honan Funeral Home in Newtown, followed by burial at the Newtown Village Cemetery.
-- Noah Pozner, Male, 11-20-06
The way Noah Pozner's parents saw it, no schools in New York could compare with those in Newtown, a relative told Newsday. So they moved their family -- Noah, his twin sister and his 8-year-old sister.
"At this stage, two out of three survived. ... That's sad," said Noah's uncle Arthur Pozner, of New York City's Brooklyn borough. "The reason they moved to that area is because they did not consider any school in New York state on the same level. That's one of the reasons they moved, for safety and education."
Noah's siblings were also students there but were not hurt. Noah's uncle recalled him as "extremely mature."
"When I was his age, I was not like him," Pozner told the newspaper. "Very well brought up. Extremely bright. Extremely bright."
I feel physically ill when I see the 2006 birth years . . . good grief wasn't 2006 just yesterday?
So, so sad. :(
Amen to that. It really makes my skin crawl right now to read some of the comments about our "right" to have these weapons when we're looking at all these dead children. Lack of tact, at the very least and selfishness personified to talk about our constitutional right to own and enjoy our guns. Disgusting, actually.
I pray that God will be with these families and this community and somehow help them cope. These people will somehow have to put one foot in front of the other, and I'm sure they just don't know how they're going to do it.
Thank you for bringing this back to what matters at this moment.
Thoughts and prayers with the families.
Rachel:
I am sooo with you on this.
I'm sick of people believing that if we rid the world of guns, there wouldn't be any violence. Urgh...
I think I posted on your FB wall and others - stop talking about the shooter - talk about the victims...STOP giving the shooter his 15 minutes of fame.
Thanks for the news on two victims!!! May God have His loving arms around them....prayers to their families...I am sure there is no amount of ANYTHING that can assuage their pain. May the victims memories be eternal.
People grieve and mourn differently, and some seize opportunities to propel their own agenda. They won't stop. We're all grieving but cannot fully put ourselves in the families shoes. Each life lost is special. The best we can do is pray for their comfort to get through, and ignore the ignorant.
The act itself is terrible on so many levels, but the sensationalism has totally made me numb. No place is 100% safe and that is the reality we live in. I can't take anymore of it. I haven't watched the news or read the paper in the last few days.
I cannot conceive of what the families are facing - it is only beginning for them. They could have been any of our children.
The reason people want to talk about it now is because the only time we (as a society) have a discussion like this is when something terrible happens. And people are so afraid that if we don't talk about it now when the grief is so fresh - we will never talk about it. And any chance of perhaps preventing a similar tragedy will pass forever.
I am with you on this. I feelthat the families need to be left alone and allowed to grieve.
I am not a huge fan of the network news stations, but it makes me sick when all they do is sensationalize the violence, and go over and over every.little.detail.again.and.again. Like we need to constantly need to hear the details every time we turn the news on.
I get it, I really do. This is a horrible, tragic event, but I firmly believe that the more we go over this, the more we argue, the less it does to actually change things. Instead of arguing about it, how about some action?
i am not"picking on" this woman in CT. who obviously knows more about the shooter and their family then she has so far told the police. is it not her "CHRISTIAN DUTY" to report what she knows to the police? and thus prevent another mass shooting??this shooting could have been prevented if someone had just come forward.
K. h.
I think the truth is all of us are just trying to answer the question we all have: "Why?" We are trying to make sense out of something nonsensical in hopes of wrapping our minds around it. It's human nature; the mind trying to process and move forward. But there are no answers. Even if the shooter were still alive, he would not provide answers. No one can answer why innocent babies lost their lives. My baby has an '08 birthdate and he is still truly just a baby. These kids, 2 years older - still just sweet, innocent babies. Our collective hearts are broken and we simply do not know what to do.
You are right, Dana K!
