Families who had their lives shattered on Dec. 14, 2012, are still straining under the weight of their losses — and still pushing for the changes they had hoped would have already happened by now.
The long-awaited Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial opened in November, nearly 10 years after the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty first-graders and six adults were shot and killed by a young man with an AR-15-style rifle.
Hensel's family of three that she's here with today is completely different than the one she had a decade ago. In the past 10 years, she's welcomed the births of Owen, now 6, and his big sister Imogen, 8. But in the same span, she has mourned the loss of not only her daughter Avielle, but also her husband, Jeremy Richman, who died by suicide in 2019.
Hensel also catches glimpses of Avielle in the kids; the way Imogen throws her hands on her hips in indignation or the way they share that same broad smile. And it warms Hensel's heart to see flashes of Avielle's creativity in the artwork still hanging up around the house. As Owen raced around the yard and up a tree, full of excitement, Imogen counted out the beaded bracelets Hensel wears every year on the first day of school in memory of Avielle and her classmates who would have been starting 11"This one is for Ana Grace, this one is for Ben," Imogen pointed out before Hensel snapped a picture to send to the other moms, who share the tradition."Take care of your brother today," Hensel reminded Imogen as she scurried onto the bus behind Owen.
"I said your dad died because his brain was sick. And he fought really hard with the good side of his brain to not let the sick side of his brain take over, but the sick side of his brain was very, very sick, and it caused his death.""I just hugged her and said, 'I see my doctor. I don't think my brain is going to get sick like that.'"Jeremy Richman celebrates his first Father's Day with his daughter Avielle in 2007.
"He hid so much from us," Hensel says."And when it was getting harder and harder and harder for him to hide it, he pushed the people closest to him away." "Help this be the moment when real change begins," she said on the broadcast, choking through her grief, still raw, just months after the shooting."Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy."have been killed or injured in mass shootings"That is one of the saddest pieces of history that our country will have to live with — that it didn't end. That Sandy Hook didn't matter enough," says Hensel.
"We finally moved that mountain, a mountain of opposition, obstruction and indifference that stood in the way and stopped every effort at gun safety for 30 years in this nation," he said."Now is the time to galvanize this movement, because that's our duty to the families of this nation."
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