Everyone here at FGGAM offer our prayers as the nation today remembers and honors the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting one year ago today. It is a day of great pain in somber remembrance of the victims and their families.
Newtown officials called for privacy as Newtown residents prepared for private memorial services and a quite day of reflection.
Connecticut Governor Dannel Mallor and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman directed U.S. and state flags to fly at half-staff on Saturday to honor the 20 children and 6 adults who were gunned down inside the school on December 14, 2012.
Houses of worship all around the state rang their bells 26 times as names of each of the victims were read.
“You kind of hope the town can put it behind without actually forgetting about the victims,” Andrew Snow, a lifelong resident of Newtown said. “But it’s not easy to do. I think about it every day,” Snow said.
While church’s throughout the town will hold services today, town officials do not have any formal events planned. They also discouraged the news media from coming to Newtown. “We are trying to respect the world’s interest in us, but we also have a real need in out community to gain a foothold,” First Selectman Pat Llorda said.
