My prayers to our CT friends

jddens · Post by **jddens** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:19 pm

So tragic and senseless....all the parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, extended relations, friends, community, country...........all lives changed forever. I'm having trouble accepting this and keep hoping I'll wake up..........John

alexander38 · Post by **alexander38** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 7:33 pm

I see this was cleaned of the post that had to be one of the most unfeeling one's I've seen on ant Boat site Thank you Moderator...

The parents and town started to put the babies to rest today, God save them. I still don't get it. How anyone could do this. I was in combat and shot men shooting at me, I couldn't fathom how sick and twisted you'd have to be to do this.

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Mon Dec 17, 2012 9:34 pm

georgepet · Post by **georgepet** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:40 am

Two days after 9/11, and maybe it was the third, I donâ€™t quite remember - I was on one of the first flights leaving the US en route to S. America. Waving off every airplane departing were hundreds of ground crew lined on a taxiway bearing signs â€œAmerican we are, United we standâ€ saluting them off. There was barely a dry eye on board. It struck me that evening that this was a testament to the resilience of the American spirit. I donâ€™t know how this will end, or what will be learned - those are deeper and inherently political questions. But I do know, as Iâ€™ve seen so many times before, that you as a people will come together, and be stronger for it, as you always have.

â€˜Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.â€™ - Aeschylus

Torcan · Post by **Torcan** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 1:45 pm

Beautiful tribute done by "THE VOICE" using Leonard Cohens song Hallelujah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-SeKsVm ... ture=share

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:23 pm

i was doing fine, well, not really, until they showed the pictures of the little ones and the adults. the water works just started all over again. when they interviewed the rabbi that officiated at noah's funeral, i really took a nose dive. this planet is in a really bad neighborhood. like i said earlier, i find it hard to comprehend this. i called all 5 of my nieces and nephews yesterday (they are all young adults now) and just told them i loved them. at the mall today i noticed that parents are holding their kids hands just a little tighter right now. i know that emotions are running really high on this thread, and i appreciate the compassion that everyone shows. i appreciate that the moderator has let this stand. thank you. who knows, you never know if someone close to us on this board is somehow associated with a family that is impacted by this. so it really does bring us all together in sadness and grief.
just my two cents worth.
aaron

my tribute to the fallen and the survivors.... it's one of my favorite hymns.
enjoy guys..... (and there had better not be a dry eye from you guys!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLMzr3PFgk

captainmaniac · Post by **captainmaniac** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:45 pm

I don't have a video, or a song, or a bible passage, or a famous quote from the fathers of confederation, peace activist, or any other world leader to contribute.

I don't have kids of my own, but have 7 nieces and nephews - one of which has 3 kids of his own - who I have watched pass through that age. Hell - WE were all that age once. As were our spouses, brothers, sisters, and parents.

Bottom line. There are a lot of bad people and mentally sick people in the world. The internet age has created an era where anyone who wants instant fame has a ready audience, by doing the right (or wrong) thing they can be assured that tens or hundreds of millions of people will know their name almost instantly! 15 minutes of fame?? Heck - news of their actions will live forever and be accessible by ANYONE who types the right keywords into Google! Who needs the history books when you have Google? Rest assured, unfortunately, this kind of atrocity will happen again, and will happen more often. The world is changing.

Fortunately, there are also a lot of GOOD people in the world. And the good guys far outnumber the bad guys. Lets hope the good guys win.

To anyone affected directly by what just happened, my heartfelt condolences. To anyone not directly affected but touched just the same... good for you. You just reaffirmed your position on the 'good people' list.

Big D · Post by **Big D** » Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:43 pm

The wife and I can usually sit together and talk endlessly about the most shocking world events and about what can possibly be going through people's minds when they do certain things. This event like 911 is just beyond the two of us. We just sat there, listened and watched, and couldn't think of a single thing to say. We just don't get it. I mean, we know the world has changed, and people's actions have become more extreme, but this is just beyond all that somehow. I for one say that prayers are enough, they are the only thing left, they are the only thing that got me through this. I don't do it much, but it did help this time. The only thing left is to prey that the victims are in a better place, that the ones they left behind can make it through this somehow, and for the rest of us in hopes it never happens again.

What a loss, what lives that might have been.

297Elegante · Post by **297Elegante** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:17 am

The latest update here is the Westboro Baptist Church (look them up) are staying in my wife's hometown with plans to pocket the funerals. They are a very anti gay group and due to CT having allowed gay marriage they are coming to more or less support the killing of these children. They preach it as gods work...

Times like this bring out the best in people (it's amazing how everyone has been coming together here on CT), but it also brings out the worst in some people.

Big D · Post by **Big D** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 10:13 am

Unbelievable. The world is broken and we need to fix it. Maybe we need another flood; build a big boat, get the animals, just the good people, and start all over again.

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:43 pm

Big D wrote:Unbelievable. The world is broken and we need to fix it. Maybe we need another flood; build a big boat, get the animals, just the good people, and start all over again.

that was my torah portion for my bar mitzvah.... 27 oct 1973 temple sinai, washington, dc...... i even remember how many people were there. plain as day.... maybe all will be fixed on friday the 21st..... (you know, 12/21/12)........hmmmmmmm

aaronbocknek · Post by **aaronbocknek** » Wed Dec 19, 2012 4:46 pm

297Elegante wrote:The latest update here is the Westboro Baptist Church (look them up) are staying in my wife's hometown with plans to pocket the funerals. They are a very anti gay group and due to CT having allowed gay marriage they are coming to more or less support the killing of these children. They preach it as gods work...

Times like this bring out the best in people (it's amazing how everyone has been coming together here on CT), but it also brings out the worst in some people.

good lord, that group really needs to just go away. i hope, that for the sake of the grieving, that a mass of people circle around these westboro nut cases and drown out their protest.

297Elegante · Post by **297Elegante** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:00 am

A large group prepped for them, but it appears they didn't show.

Hopefully the families were not aware of it and were able to grieve in as much peace as one can possibly grieve in.

MattSC · Post by **MattSC** » Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:06 am

My thoughts and prayers are with all of those families. Sandy Hook is only 15 minutes from home. I'm devastated by it