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Rocknrule

(5,697 posts) Sun Dec 14, 2014, 11:29 AM Dec 2014

Where were you two years ago today when you heard about Sandy Hook? [View all]

I was, as fate would have it, subbing at an elementary school in the media center. When I checked my Yahoo email, I saw a news bulletin about a school shooting in Connecticut. The details so far were one injured, shooter dead, another shooter at large, and of course, as the day went on, the news only got worse and worse...

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Where were you two years ago today when you heard about Sandy Hook? [View all] Rocknrule Dec 2014 OP

At my house about 18 miles away from Sandy Hook bigwillq Dec 2014 #1

You and I are practically neighbors, then. I'm about seven miles from the school. MANative Dec 2014 #4

I live in the Naugatuck Valley. bigwillq Dec 2014 #5

I was in my car marym625 Dec 2014 #2

I was driving back home from the mall in Northern Connecticut when the local NPR station Mass Dec 2014 #3

On the 7 LiberalElite Dec 2014 #6

I don't actually remember, probably traveling or working. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #7

It was instant news, like the Columbine massacre....taking my kids to school....now even more guns. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #8

In the chair waiting for the dentist loyalsister Dec 2014 #9

I was in Australia. I had, in fact, just returned to the mainland after visiting Tasmania.... PassingFair Dec 2014 #10

Sitting in my classroom while my 3rd graders were at PE ... 11 Bravo Dec 2014 #11