“You’re safe now; your parents love you.”
Officer William Chapman to a little girl he found at Sandy Hook Elementary School breathing and with a slight pulse, as he carried her to an ambulance. She did not survive.
From “Reliving Horror and Faint Hope at Massacre Site,” Ray Rivera, NYT
Oh, God. What can anyone say?
I hope somehow she heard him.
What an image for that man to be left with. I hope that she heard him, too.