EVANS, GA (WFXG) -
The 27 people, young and old, who were
killed in the Newtown Connecticut massacre, were given their angel wings in
Columbia County Thursday night.
"It's just horrible that the kids
won't get to see Christmas this year," said Taylor James who is a student in Columbia County.
To honor the shooting victims Thursday
night, dozens of students and parents placed angels with the names of the
victims on the Evans Towne Center Park Christmas tree.
During the ceremony, Columbia County
students sang songs of peace as their parents cried.
Latita Clark knows what the Sandy Hook
survivors are going through because she's also been through a devastating
tragedy.
Her son Ryan who graduated from
Lakeside High was killed during the Virginia Tech mass shooting in 2007.
"I was totally devastated, it
took me back to April 16 and I realized another set of families would be going
through so much pain and I just cried," Clark, said.
The pain from the school shootings
then and now is real and Clark still hurts. But she believes healing comes
through community. So even though Sandy Hook Elementary is nearly 1,000 miles
away, our community is reaching out to theirs.
"Through sticking together as a
community we can survive, we can heal, it cannot happen overnight but you can
constantly heal when you stick together as a family as a community as
neighbors," Clark, said.
"I hope the families in this tragedy feel a lot
better really soon," said James.
The group also took a picture with the angels and they
will send it to Sandy Hook so their community knows this one supports them.
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