A decade after Sandy Hook, grief remains but hope grows

The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses.

December 14, 2022 - 4:26 PM

Neil Heslin, father of Jesse Lewis who was one of twenty children killed in the Sandy Hook School massacre, pauses for a moment as he speaks against the need for high-capacity magazines for weapons at a public safety hearing on gun control at the Legislative Office Building.

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — They would have been 16 or 17 this year. High school juniors.

The children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 should have spent this year thinking about college, taking their SATs and getting their driver’s licenses. Maybe attending their first prom.

Instead, the families of the 20 students and six educators slain in the mass shooting will mark a decade without them Wednesday.

December is a difficult month for many in Newtown, the Connecticut suburb where holiday season joy is tempered by heartbreak around the…

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