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Kathianne
12-17-2012, 06:48 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/neighbor-took-6-young-survivors-home-205020443.html


Neighbor took 6 young survivors into his home<cite id="yui_3_5_1_20_1355787553838_270" class="byline vcard">By By PAT EATON-ROBB | Associated Press – <abbr id="yui_3_5_1_20_1355787553838_277" class="updated" title="2012-12-17T22:45:42Z">53 mins ago

</abbr></cite>NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Gene Rosen had just finished feeding his cats and was heading from his home near Sandy Hook Elementary school to a diner Friday morning when he saw six small children sitting in a neat semicircle at the end of his driveway.


A school bus driver was standing over them, telling them things would be all right. It was about 9:30 a.m., and the children, he discovered, had just run from the school to escape a gunman.
"We can't go back to school," one little boy told Rosen. "Our teacher is dead. Mrs. Soto; we don't have a teacher."


Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist, took the four girls and two boys into his home, and over the next few hours gave them toys, listened to their stories and called their frantic parents.
Rosen said he had heard the staccato sound of gunfire about 15 minutes earlier but dismissed it as an obnoxious hunter in the nearby woods.


"I had no idea what had happened," Rosen said. "I couldn't take that in."


He walked the children past his small goldfish pond with its running waterfall, and the garden he made with his two grandchildren, into the small yellow house he shares with his wife.


He ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals. He gave those to the children, along with some fruit juice, and sat with them as the two boys described seeing their teacher being shot.


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.

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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
12-17-2012, 07:06 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/neighbor-took-6-young-survivors-home-205020443.html

That is the kind of citizen we need and have here. Who would have done less? Maybe a few but I think most would naturally seek to help those children. I know that I would and know my neighbors each side of my home and directly across the street would. -Tyr

aboutime
12-17-2012, 07:11 PM
Somehow, I suspect...ALL OF US would do the very same thing. That's what human beings do when other human beings are hurt, threatened, or just need a HUG.

avatar4321
12-17-2012, 10:56 PM
Somehow, I suspect...ALL OF US would do the very same thing. That's what human beings do when other human beings are hurt, threatened, or just need a HUG.

I would hope all of us would do the same. But I know we all wouldn't. Not everyone has developed themselves in a way where they can do that. Some have difficulty being in contact with their fellow human beings. He is a good man.