This Time, Let’s Remember the Victims

The victims.

These are the people we should be remembering today. It will bring tears to your eyes, but better to shed tears of sadness for these innocent victims, than shed tears of rage for the evil that caused this.  We need to let any memory of the killer disappear into the deepest, darkest depths of our collective mind – much as he now currently resides in the deepest, darkest depths of hell.

Focus on the victims. The media will make a cult hero out of the killer.

Don’t let them do that.

The names (h/t Michelle Malkin):

Faith has come under fire so frequently in the schools.

Yet, under fire, it is faith that sustains eternally.

Psalm 34:18 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

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Via USA Today:

The names and birth dates of the victims:

Charlotte Bacon (2/22/06), 6 years old, female

Daniel Barden (9/25/05), 7 years old, male

Rachel Davino (7/17/83), Staff member, 29 years old, female

Olivia Engel (7/18/06), 6 years old, female

Josephine Gay (12/11/05), 7 years old, female

Ana M. Marquez-Greene (4/4/06), 6 years old, female

Dylan Hockley (3/8/06), 6 years old, male

Dawn Hochsprung (6/28/65), Principal, 47 years old, female

Madeleine F. Hsu (7/10/06), 6 years old, female

Catherine V. Hubbard (6/8/06), 6 years old, female

Chase Kowalski (10/31/05), 7 years old, male

Nancy Lanza, 52 years old, female (mother of shooter Adam Lanza)

Jesse Lewis (6/30/06), 6 years old, male

James Mattioli (03/22/06), 6 years old, male

Grace McDonnell (11/4/05), 7 years old, female

Anne Marie Murphy (7/25/60), Staff member, 52 years old, female

Emilie Parker (05/12/06), 6 years old, female

Jack Pinto (05/05/06), 6 years old, male

Noah Pozner (11/20/06), 6 years old, male

Caroline Previdi (9/07/06), 6 years old, female

Jessica Rekos (5/10/06), 6 years old, female

Avielle Richman (11/17/06) 6 years old, female

Lauren Rousseau (June 1982), Staff member, 30 years old, female

Mary Sherlach (2/11/56), Staff member, 56 years old, female

Victoria Soto (11/04/85), Staff member, 27 years old, female

Benjamin Wheeler (09/12/06), 6 years old, male

Allison N. Wyatt (07/03/06), 6 years old, female

The photographs are heart-breaking, but we owe it to these kids and teachers to remember how they lived and loved life.

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