A moment of silence was scheduled for today at 9:30 AM to remember the victims of the Newtown massacre. Bells rang across the country, each time it rang it was a remembrance of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT last Friday. There was a total of 26 rings. See what the nation agreed to after the jump..
CT’s Governor, Dannel Malloy, has requested the full participation of all of CT in the bell-ringing from all houses of worship, buildings, anywhere that is able to join in the symbolic gesture. On top of the bells, he also asked that everyone joins in a moment of silence at 9:30 AM, which is exactly one week after “the horror began to unfold.”
Everywhere around the USA, from Hawaii to Louisiana, promptly agreed to join in. We will be remembering the 20 young students and six faculty members killed in Newtown, which was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
If you can, a lot of the ‘world wide web’ is taking moments of silence & staying off technology.. calling it a ‘blackout’ to “help bring focus to the events at Sandy Hook and the broader issue of gun violence in America.”
Sadly enough, NBC reports:
Newtown funerals will continue for a fifth consecutive day. Three more children and two school staffers will be buried. They include: 6-year-old Olivia Engel; 6-year-old Dylan Hockley; 7-year-old Grace McDonnell; behavioral therapist Rachel D’Avino, 29; and school psychologist Mary Sherlach, 56.
