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"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher."
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Victoria Soto, 27, was a first-grade teacher killed when 20-year-old Adam Lanza burst into her classroom. It wasn't clear how the children escaped harm, but there have been reports that Soto hid some of her students from the approaching gunman. The six who turned up at Rosen's home did apparently have to run past her body to safety.
"They said he had a big gun and a little gun," said Rosen, who didn't want to discuss other details the children shared.
Rosen called the children's parents, using cellphone numbers obtained from the school bus company, and they came and retrieved their children.
One little girl, he said, spent the entire ordeal clutching a small stuffed Dalmatian to her chest and staring out the window looking for her mommy.
And one little boy brought them all a moment of levity.
"This little boy turns around, and composes himself, and he looks at me like he had just removed himself from the carnage and he says, 'Just saying, your house is very small,'" Rosen said. "I wanted to tell him, 'I love you. I love you.'"
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A couple of hours after the last child left, a knock came on his door. It was a frantic mother who had heard that some children had taken refuge there. She was looking for her little boy.
"Her face looked frozen in terror," Rosen said, breaking down in tears.
"She thought maybe a miracle from God would have the child at my house," he said. Later, "I looked at the casualty list ... and his name was on it."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/newtown_teacher_took_dead_students_hVXv1qHmVJW2M129eBMomI
Kingofalldems
(38,496 posts)Incredible story.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)I am sick in my heart. I am glad I'm old. I don't want another forty years of this.
sheshe2
(83,953 posts)My Yahoo news page!
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Never worth the price, but ever astounding.
Thank you for your posting this.
Uncle Joe
(58,458 posts)Thanks for the thread, sheshe.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)sheshe2
(83,953 posts)Thank you.
Esse Quam Videri
(685 posts)Bravo
840high
(17,196 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)So far I managed to avoid it.
sheshe2
(83,953 posts)I was talking to one of my floor managers...about an issue with a client...then I lost it!
Sorry I made you cry.
renate
(13,776 posts)For some reason I found that line really touching. Maybe it's because it's little children who most bring out that protective instinct.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)I'm not ordinarily fond of them, but from about 4 to 10 I find I relate very well to them.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,953 posts)I cried too Freshwest.
The six babies that found a way out were so very brave. My heart goes out to them.
To All of them!
Cha
(297,799 posts)All I can do is another.. What a sweet sweet story for those children who got away to Mr Rosen's.
I am with you on that Cha!