Sympathy cards and letters for families touched by the Newtown, CT school shooting
I'm not sure what anyone could do for the families touched by today's elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT. There are no answers that can make any of it make sense or make it right. However the few times I have grieved over the death of a loved one, having someone else express their condolences helped a small bit.
So if you would like to write a letter, consider writing a letter to the family of one or more of the victims below. The US Postal service has setup a dedicated PO Box for doing so.
Messages of Condolence for Newtown
Newtown CT 06470
Names and ages of the victims (as published by the New York Times, 12/16/2012)
Children
Charlotte Bacon, 6
Daniel Barden, 7
Olivia Engel, 6
Josephine Gay, 7
Ana Marquez-Greene, 6
Dylan Hockley, 6
Madeleine Hsu, 6
Catherine Hubbard, 6
Chase Kowalski, 7
Jesse Lewis, 6
James Mattioli, 6
Grace McDonnell, 7
Emilie Parker, 6
Jack Pinto, 6
Noah Pozner, 6
Caroline Previdi, 6
Jessica Rekos, 6
Avielle Richman, 6
Bemjamin Wheeler, 6
Allison Wyatt, 6
Adults
Rachel Davino, 29, teacher
Dawn Hochsprung, 47, principal
Nancy Lanza, 52, mother of shooter
Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
Lauren Rousseau, 30, teacher
Mary Sherlach, 56, school psychologist
Victoria Soto, 27, teacher
Any more updates of names of families we can send letters to?
The Newtown police are saying they’ll release more tomorrow morning. I’ll update my page sometime this weekend.
Thank you so much for doing this! So awesome! I’ve been searching everywhere for an address to send a letter.
I was looking for an address for my students to write letters tomorrow and your blog came up. However, it is very disturbing to me that you have the shooter listed under victims. His name needs to be removed and not spoken of. He is a disgrace of a human and should not have recognition as a victim. He is a coward. Please remove his name.