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Happyhippychick

(8,379 posts) Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:32 AM Dec 2012

It's not just 28 people who were killed. Every family in that school is scarred for life, children

Lost their parents (teachers), parents lost their children, grandparents lost, aunts and uncles lost. Thousands of people are victims from that shooting.

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It's not just 28 people who were killed. Every family in that school is scarred for life, children (Original Post) Happyhippychick Dec 2012 OP

Children who watched or heard the story, across the country are also scarred. morningfog Dec 2012 #1

Adults all over this country had PTSD after 9/11 and Katrina. juajen Dec 2012 #2

morningfog

(18,115 posts)

1. Children who watched or heard the story, across the country are also scarred.

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Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:34 AM

Dec 2012

Albeit to a much less degree. This has enormous ripple effect.

juajen

(8,515 posts)

2. Adults all over this country had PTSD after 9/11 and Katrina.

Reply to Happyhippychick (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 10:48 AM

Dec 2012

We are all affected by tragedy. I still cry over a dolphin dying in our gulf, and, they still are. We are by no means "getting well". As bad as all of these tragedies were, little children being mowed down is unfathomable. Our President expressed what we are all feeling so eloquently.

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