Today is perhaps the hardest day of the year for me

Five years ago a dear friend's daughter was the sole survivor in her class of 15 in the Sandy Hook shooting. She lived by playing dead - how a six-year-old has the presence of mind to do that is beyond me. After emerging from the school covered in blood from head to toe she told her mom "I'm okay, but all my friends are dead." How do you ever get that out of your head, as a parent or anyone else?

My friend is a Tech grad, and in fact we met at Tech the summer before our senior year in high school. She says her daughter continues to see a therapist but by all accounts is doing fairly well. As she told me last year, "it's just part of who we are now."
[Post edited by HokieMacDaddy at 12/14/2017 10:20AM]

Posted: 12/14/2017 at 10:14AM

Today is perhaps the hardest day of the year for me -- HokieMacDaddy 12/14/2017 10:14AM

...shew! And God really Bless. ^Prayers^ ** -- bourbonstreet 12/15/2017 01:42AM

WOW. So sorry to hear that. -- vt_mughal 12/14/2017 2:16PM

When that happened, I was living 25 miles south of there in CT -- Late 80s Hokie 12/14/2017 1:47PM

I think about that girl all the time. -- psychobilly 12/14/2017 12:41PM

I can't begin to imagine going through something like -- santafe 12/14/2017 12:17PM

That's heartbreaking. -- SavannaHokie 12/14/2017 12:05PM

They always say kids are stronger than we think. I personally can't -- AbsolutVT03 12/14/2017 11:43AM

That sounded so familiar. I remembered what it was now... -- statmanfromHCyrs 12/14/2017 11:03AM

God bless you and everyone touched by that -- UberHOKIE 12/14/2017 10:37AM

That is so tragic. -- HokieSignGuy 12/14/2017 10:23AM

I have a great friend whose daughter ... -- vt90 12/14/2017 10:23AM

Today is perhaps the hardest day of the year for me

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