Shortened Biographies

Watching people try to understand the mass shooting of children is a painful human study.  I heard the news during an elementary school Christmas performance.  I watched men at the barbershop try to make sense of the endless television reports.  I talked my kids around the horrid details.  My wife cried us both to sleep for the sakes and souls of Newtown, CT. For the first time ever, each national news anchor I’ve seen for days  has had wet eyes, finally seeming affected by the sensationalism that is part of their work.

Despite the self-centered nature of blogs and social media, this has nothing to do with me and everything to do with twenty kids, twenty families who will never be the same.  On Friday, ten days before Christmas, every parent, educator, and emergency response person was punched in the gut, harder than we have ever been.  Should we hesitate to compare this to 9/11?  Will we remember where we were?  Do we accept a world where another mass killing is just another mass killing?

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We must somehow take these biographies that are all too short, the stories of these children’s lives, and use them as fuel.  We must realize that the sincerity and innocence with which these first-grade souls approached each day is the same genuine care that we must use to approach one another.  We must not do this just in the wake of a tragic event in December, but every day with every person who may or may not be our favorite classmate, co-worker, neighbor, or stranger on the street.  We must shorten the biography of this stage of humanity where people are driven and enabled to disregard human life.  We must, as a society, learn to understand so we can learn to care for the mental and emotional health of our people…all people.

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One Response to Shortened Biographies

  1. James says:

    Walt,
    Well written. I am also at a loss as to what to do differently or more of to make our building safer. Can we make the building impenetrable? I fear not.
    So we are open to the scary side of human beings who want to hurt others, no matter how small. How sad!

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