In 2013, Newtown, Connecticut, formed a volunteer commission of a dozen local residents to discuss if, and how, they could design a memorial to the Sandy Hook victims. Parents requested gardens and solemnity and serenity.
On the morning of December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man shot and killed his mother in the house they shared in Newtown, Connecticut. He used one of the at least five guns and four of the at least sixteen hundred rounds of ammunition in their household. Then he drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School, which he had attended as a child. With a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, he shot dead six educators and twenty students between the ages of six and seven.
On a chilly November morning, I had plans to meet Affleck and Waldo, Artemis’s Tara Vincenta, and some local officials at the memorial, which covers about three and a half acres not far from the new school, with members of the press. As I walked down a short gravel path, I heard birds and distant announcements over an intercom. A discreet camera tower stood among some trees, and, in the distance, an American flag hugged its pole. I arrived at a granite marker, roughly a rhombus.
Our little group assembled. The area, Waldo told us, “was sort of a decommissioned Little League baseball field, overgrown with weeds and invasives.” Nearby, Alan Martin, the vice-chairman of the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission, nodded from under a baseball cap. During the site-selection process, Martin had come to the site with two other committee members and heard, from the rebuilt school nearby, the sound of children playing. They convinced the others that this must be the place.
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