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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 08:17 PM Feb 2013

Now is the time …. to honor them


Dawn Hochsprung

CT Post: The six Newtown teachers and administrators who died protecting their students at Sandy Hook Elementary School will be the posthumous recipients of the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal.

President Obama will make the presentations to surviving family members during a ceremony on Friday, Feb. 15 in the White House….

More here:http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Slain-teachers-staff-to-get-presidential-medal-4252876.php

The medals will go to the families of:

Dawn Hochsprung, the principal, Mary Sherlach, the school psychologist and teachers Rachel D’Avino, Lauren Rousseau, Anne Murphy and Victoria So

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Now is the time …. to honor them (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2013 OP
Where did these tears come from madokie Feb 2013 #1
I know... MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #3
K&R MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #2

madokie

(51,076 posts)
1. Where did these tears come from
Tue Feb 5, 2013, 08:25 PM
Feb 2013

Well I know where they come from but this all seems so senseless. All for the love of a gun. It is beyond my comprehension how anyone can still defend the gun laws as they are today. We need a total ban on all weapons that are designed solely for killing people. No one needs them, no one.
I learned my lesson years ago in war.
Please people lets stop this senseless continuation of manufacturing these weapons and selling them to people who really have no real reason to have them other than the want too.

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