{"id":131735,"date":"2025-03-13T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/bread\/sandy-hook-nine-years-later\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T23:34:40","slug":"sandy-hook-nine-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=131735","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Hook nine years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"382\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5979\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/C75C12F6-0678-4459-8F11-99BF1776E7A9.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/?attachment_id=5979\" class=\"wp-image-5979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/C75C12F6-0678-4459-8F11-99BF1776E7A9.jpeg?resize=680%2C382 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/C75C12F6-0678-4459-8F11-99BF1776E7A9.jpeg?resize=300%2C168 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.farine-mc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/C75C12F6-0678-4459-8F11-99BF1776E7A9.jpeg?w=711 711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Photo courtesy of Noah\u2019s parents. The kids on the beach are his sisters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Nine years have gone by since the Sandy Hook massacre that took our grandson Noah\u2019s life and the lives of 25 others, including 19 kids and 6 educators. He had turned 6 three weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>That day will remain branded in my memory until the day I die. It isn\u2019t in my power to change any of it, to go back in time wishing for a snow day or for a pandemic that would have closed schools and given the killer time to reflect and stand down. Sometimes I even wish guiltily that Noah had had a fever and stayed home. But then I think of the other victims and I know it is no good. Nothing can change what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The grief hasn\u2019t changed either. I have been told that you learn to live with it, and that\u2019s true, but I have also been told that after a few years it would morph into something different, more manageable, more \u00ab\u00a0reasonable.\u00a0\u00bb Well, I am here to tell you it hasn\u2019t. And I don\u2019t expect it to. In fact I don\u2019t want it to. As long as I feel heavy with longing and pain, I know love is alive.<\/p>\n<p>What has changed over the years is Noah. In my mind\u2019s (heart\u2019s) eyes, he is now your typical teenager (he would have turned 15 last month,) tall, with a sweep of thick glossy dark hair, luminous eyes, eyelashes any girl would envy and a quick tongue. Maybe he has a girlfriend, maybe he is rebellious, maybe he plays an instrument, maybe he doesn\u2019t like school, maybe he wants to be a marine biologist or an influencer on TikTok. We\u2019ll never know because his future was stolen. <\/p>\n<p>From him, from us.<\/p>\n<p>He would be playing video games with his sisters and his many cousins. There would be visits back and forth. Strong ties would be woven across the continent. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, there is a Noah-shaped hole in the fabric of our lives and it won\u2019t ever be mended.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/2021\/12\/sandy-hook-nine-years-later.html\"\n    dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/2021\/12\/sandy-hook-nine-years-later.html\"\n    dc:title=\"Sandy Hook &#8211; nine years later\"\n    trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.farine-mc.com\/2021\/12\/sandy-hook-nine-years-later.html\/trackback\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo courtesy of Noah\u2019s parents. The kids on the beach are his sisters. 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