Newtown holds the first funerals for the victims
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- A grief-stricken Newtown on Monday began burying the littlest victims of the school massacre, starting with two 6-year-old boys - one of them a big football fan, the other a mischievous, whip-smart youngster whose twin sister survived the rampage.
Family, friends and townspeople streamed to two funeral homes to say goodbye to Jack Pinto, who loved the New York Giants and idolized their star wide receiver, and Noah Pozner, who liked to figure out how things worked mechanically.
Noah's twin, Arielle, who was assigned to a different classroom, survived the killing frenzy by 20-year-old Adam Lanza that left 20 children and six adults dead last week at Sandy Hook Elementary in an attack so horrifying that authorities cannot not say whether the school will ever reopen.
A rabbi presided at Noah's service, and in keeping with Jewish tradition, the boy was laid to rest in a simple brown wooden casket adorned with a Star of David.
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I am so afraid that something could happen to my eight little neices and nephews. They are all so sweet and adorable. I would be devastated if anything like this ever happened to them.
I cannot imagine the pain of the families of these poor little children. It is beyond heartbreaking. I still can't wrap my mind around it. 
