Uvalde
Ten years ago, the day of the Sandy Hook shooting happened to coincide with the day of my oldest son's Christmas pageant at his elementary school. He was in kindergarten. As I recall, the early reports that came in that afternoon had reported a shooting at a school with two dead -- maybe one of them was the shooter. Sadly, a shooting at a school was not an unusual report -- at least, not initially. Shortly before my wife and I left our house to go to the pageant, there was an update. Twenty-six people were killed -- the majority of them young children. The pageant was filled with elementary school kids, filled with excitement to be doing a play but in all honesty, probably more excited about the impending break. It was impossible not to compare their ages to the ages of the children of Sandy Hook. The parents in the auditorium had forced smiles as their kids ran around, oblivious to the tragedies of the world. Before the program began, the principal spoke and asked for a m