It is impossible to avoid thinking about those terrifying moments in which innocent children were shot at close range in the elementary school in Connecticut. The mind ponders all of the horrible scenarios, as disturbing as they may be. What did the children go through during the moments that they feared death? What do we say to the children who survived the horror? Where do we start? How can we explain how a routine morning, with a sandwich in the bag and a teacher saying, "Please open the book to page 32," turned into a petrifying nightmare that ended with the murder of friends whom they will never see again? From all directions, one question is being asked: Why? But any answer would be too late and the price too much to bear. The pictures of frightened parents and pale children are heart breaking. There is no avoiding the question of what these devoted and caring parents were thinking as they sped to the school to receive the news on the fate of their children. Even the children who escaped unharmed physically will carry mental scars for many years. What are the parents of the children who were killed going through? For their entire lives, they will have to cope with the terrible loss, as well as the soul crushing questions about the final moments of their children, when they were not there to hold their hands and try to save them. Even if they are given answers to a lot of the questions, this will not ease, even in the slightest, the horrible sense of calamity that befell them.
