…we talked about what happened in Arizona and asked My Kid if they had talked about it at school and she said, “Yes”.
She knew all about the girl who was at the event because she had just won a student government election and wanted to learn more about the political process.
My Kid and the rest of her classmates are learning all about the political process this year, studying the constitution and everything, in preparation for the big 5th grade overnight trip to Washington, D.C. These kids, who grew up in post-9/11 New York City, know it could just as easily have been one of them.
I read about the New York connection to the grandparents of the little 9-year-old girl who was shot to death. Dallas Green, had managed both the Yankees and the Mets.
But, nothing prepared them for this.
His wife made the call to their son after they saw his town on the TV news.
She was just casually wondering what the locals were saying about this Tucson shooting that had made the national news.
They were not prepared to find out that their precious grandaughter had been there, had been shot, and was dead.