Through my eyes

“I had purchased a ticket to visit my sister in Waterbury, Connecticut, a town just minutes from Newtown. She was preparing to give birth to my nephew, and I wanted my visit to be a big surprise. As I was preparing to leave for what to me was to be a trip filled with happiness, the news broke. Twenty-six people, most of them children under 7 years of age, had been killed by a crazed gunman. What a day of sadness.

“Once I got to Meriden, the town where my sister was in the hospital, the doctor who was inducing her labor told us it would be well into the night before she gave birth. My close friend Ernesto drove me to Sandy Hook, and I took the photos you see here. This was a town where I had spent much time as a young man. I had gone on dates in some of the town restaurants. To see the hundreds of news media from all over the world and the hundreds of people who came to town to pay their respects was surreal. Could this really be the place I had once called home?”

“As we entered town, there were makeshift memorials on every corner. Townspeople and strangers were seeking a way to cope with an act so atrocious that it left many of them stunned, unable to speak… leaving only tears to say what hearts so strongly felt. To the left is a photo of six-year-old victim Noah Pozner, who left behind his twin sister and best friend, Arielle.

“Everywhere we went in town there were tributes to the fallen. In the early evening, candles lit street corners and yards, their soft light symbols of hope in the heavy darkness.”

“From the moment we entered town, I was struck by the number of signs. The tributes, both written and symbolized through pictures, seemed endless.

“On a small hill, we came across twenty-six cardboard and wooden angels, sentinels standing guard over a silent offering of toys and flowers. Only then did it strike me just how many children had died. And I was stunned. That hill has since become a rallying cry for peace and an end to meaningless violence.

“The bottom photo shows the only road leading to the school that law enforcement officials had left open to the public. The road was open only to foot traffic, and the stream of people visiting the site was endless. As I watched those finding their way toward the school, I could see the dull look of tragedy in their faces, but as I passed by those returning, I could see the true evidence of pain realized.” depots

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