A father who lost his son in the Sandy Hook shooting remembers getting comfort from an unlikely source.
shooting almost 10 years ago is sharing his own experience and offering words of sorrow, solace and advice.He remembers getting comfort from an unlikely source -- his older children.4th-grade teacher, 10-year-old boy who was 'life of the party' among Texas school shooting victims
"I remember Jackie and I laying on the floor in the kitchen, just in a pile just sobbing and weeping and just not really wanting to go on," said Barden."I mean, we both said to each other, 'We just want to die.' And James and Natalie came from somewhere in the house, and they piled on to us and wrapped their arms around us and cried with us and said, 'It's gonna be okay.
Mark and Jackie Barden, parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Daniel Barden, hold hands at news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn., Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.Barden knows that the world is also grieving and says there's no wrong way to process this. "What I would ask folks is to take that anguish and that outrage that you feel now and hold on to it. Let it last. Let it activate you beyond the news cycle. And roll up your sleeves and do something," said Barden.
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