Mother of Newtown Victim Hears from Son
This is a story about a mother who had a visitation from her son who was killed last week. He tells her about the scope of the event and how it is touching so many people.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/bereft-sandy-hook-mom-son-vision-article-1.1224903
The part about the visitation is relatively short. Most of this story is about how the parents found out they were victims.
Still, I think it's amazing that a major "mainstream" newspaper would report such an event. As all of us here know, such stories are usually given short shrift. But yes, a major daily is reporting on a visit from the other side.
The times: they are a 'changing.
I am happy that this mother has received a measure of comfort from this visit. According to the story, it has completely changed her grieving experience.
Cher
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Have a problem with that?
You're thinking of NY Post.
No, the Daily News has been posting more liberal, favorable-to-Democrats articles for some time. I don't understand why, as I hear one of their editors came over from the Post, but that is the case as I read it on my Nook every night. Also I bought it a lot during the storm, and I was pleased to see they headed up a major aid effort for the storm victims on the Jersey shore. They literally rounded up supplies and,using their NY Daily News newspaper trucks, took them to the victims.
They might be pretty good people.
Re your last paragraph, I wish I'd written that. So true. As I read it, I kept thinking of the pictures of their home and this 20-year old kid, home alone, playing violent video games. That and his mom were about his only human contact.
Cher
where I saw the NY Post in the newspaper rack and realized my mistake! Have edited my post 
I've read some really sad descriptions of his reality. He couldn't stand to have people touch him or be too physically close to him, including his mother. Yet couldn't stand to have her too far away either. She sometimes spent her nights sleeping on the floor just outside his bedroom door...
He had some serious problems with his brain wiring and serious fear/rage issues. Apparently his brother also has issues. Hard to say how much was nature vs nurture.
and the other things, like the pics of your yard after Hurricane Sandy. I finally saw the soldier, too. 
I'll be posting back on that page when I get a little time (grades are due for the semester).
Cher
