Hamill: Sandy Hooks heroes give us hope for 13
In the week I spent in Sandy Hook, a borough of Newtown, human sadness coated the immaculate streets like a sticky lacquer that clung to the soles of your shoes. You couldnt walk 10 feet without seeing a teenage girl with runny mascara, a grown man bawling into his open hands, a policeman trying to shield his eyes with sunglasses on an overcast day.
The endless burials, the mournful church bells, the parade of relatives and town folk draped in black, the flags at half-staff and even the black crows in glum rank in the leafless trees in the Yuletide was more human sorrow than any one town should ever have to bear.
Even the sky wept drizzly rain.
But now that first snow has laid a blanket of white over this town of gloom and a new year peals from the white steeples of Newtown, it is time to also celebrate those who defied that blazing muzzle of death to protect precious young lives.
Cheer them at midnight.
Lets make them rise one more time as one extraordinary group, the way they all stood up to the Monster in Sandy Hook Elementary.
Together they are the Person of the Year of 2012.
Just kidding, I don't know much about Columbine besides Msm and Mikey Moore so I'm liking forward to hearing it.
