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Where were you ten years ago today? (Original Post) AndyS Dec 2022 OP
Was in a nearby city looking at decorations and doing a little shopping rurallib Dec 2022 #1
Working. My 6-year-old twin niece and nephew were attending the *other* school in the Scrivener7 Dec 2022 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author brewens Dec 2022 #3
I remember being on DU a lot. SYFROYH Dec 2022 #4

rurallib

(63,200 posts)
1. Was in a nearby city looking at decorations and doing a little shopping
Wed Dec 14, 2022, 11:45 AM
Dec 2022

I was driving down a side street when the story came on the radio. I pulled over and my wife and I just broke out crying.

Then we called our daughter who lives far away who has our then 2.5 YO grandson. We cried on the phone and asked her to give her child an extra hug for us.

After we talked I said to my wife that maybe this is the one that will cause something to be done. Boy was I ever wrong.

Scrivener7

(52,745 posts)
2. Working. My 6-year-old twin niece and nephew were attending the *other* school in the
Wed Dec 14, 2022, 11:46 AM
Dec 2022

area, and it took a terrifying, nauseating half hour to confirm that it was not their school.

They were in pee-wee t-ball with some of the kids who died in Sandy Hook.

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