We Mourn

Children being evacuated from Sandy Hook Elementary |
School in Newtown, CT after mass shooting on Dec. 14, 2012

Contemplative Thoughts on a Day of Horror

By E, Richard Fortunato

There is no tragedy I can imagine that draws us to mourn together so universally as the unspeakable events that caught the nation completely off guard today in Newtown, CT.

People all over the state of Connecticut are in shock and are hurting deeply and personally for our neighbors in Newtown.  The nation joins us in mourning and the sense of deep sorrow.

How can any of us escape the frightful thought of the bloody outburst of the murder of innocent children on December 14, 2012, children who will not see tomorrow or the years of happy and productive tomorrows they could have lived to see. And what of the
valiant teachers and principal under whose care were
the education and safety of those beautiful kindergarten children.  .

Panic stricken parents frantic for information
about their children

Panic stricken parents, courageous law enforcement officials and town citizens rushed to the scene in disbelief.

Those happy little children, the darlings of their homes and families, left home for school this morning like millions of other American children. But tonight... we cannot begin to imagine the devastation this contemptible evil has brought to their parents, siblings, grandparents, friends and neighbors.

Woman holding child outside of Meethodist Church in
Newtown getting ready to go into prayer vigil. 

Millions of words will be spoken and written in the immediate and long term aftermath of this horrendous tragedy. The story will continue to visit the families and many of us as a recurring nightmare with new developments of horror as conconctions of our imagination with each repetition of the dreams turned to nightmares..

Our socio-political media and government apparatus will veer and vent into a  sweeping excursus of the story as they analyze, scrutinize and attempt to find answers with issues like guns, the disturbed yet evasive human psyche of evil perpetrators, and our societal values and culture. And, yes, that all needs to be done conscientiously and with apolitical determination that events such as today's will never happen again.

Meanwhile, it is ours to counsel, to comfort, to mourn with those whose loss is the greatest at this moment, and to pray that God be with the families and the innocent souls of those taken by the most evil human violence we could have imagined today in Newtown.

And so, families, a tranquil and beautiful town, a state and a nation mourn!

President Barrack Obama speaks from the White House
in a historic moment of national horror moved to
tearful emotion.