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A Reflection on Newtown, Five Years Later

I’ll never forget the day I drove into Newtown, Connecticut.  As NBC 30’s Gerry Brooks tweeted this morning: How could you? It was probably the first time I had made my way to that town outside of Danbury. But that wasn’t the reason I remember that day. It was the empty hearse outside a church. Outside a Newtown church It was the massive flag on the history Newtown flagpole at half-mast, blowing in the wind on a crisp December day. It was the countless makeshift memorials and signs reading “Pray for Newtown” that dotted the road. And it was days after one of the worst events in Connecticut and in the nation’s history. Today marks five years since that awful, despicable day in Newtown when 26 children and adults were shot and killed in Newtown. And in the days afterwards, I went to Newtown to deliver dozens upon dozens of gift cards that my wife and I collected in 48 hours after that tragedy from friends, friends of friends, and others. ...