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Vigil held in wake of horrific tragedy stephen@denpubs.com PLATTSBURGH — Their hands shook, the light of the candles they held flickering in the night as their breath, thick and white announced itself in front of them. But they weren’t leaving. They wanted to be there, to share, to mourn, to open their hearts in the wake of tragedy. They had questions, as they stood in a circle in the wake of a horrific school shooting in Connecticut, but mostly, they needed to come together. “People are feeling things and want to share,” said Mary Alice Shemo of People for Positive Action, a local group that orCommunity members gathered for a candlelight vigil held in Plattsburgh in ganized a candlelight vigil in Trinity Park response to the school shooting in Connecticut. in Plattsburgh in response to the senseless
tragedy. Adam Lanza, 20, shot open an entrance to Newton, Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School and, once inside unloaded multiple magazines, killing six adults and 20 children from two classrooms. Lanza shot each victim multiple times and then used a handgun to kill himself. Police recovered three weapons near his dead body, a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and two handguns made by Glock and Sig Sauer. They also found a shotgun in his nearby car. Before going to the school, he shot and killed his mother, Nancy, who owned the weapons, which she collected and shot at ranges. Shemo, standing in the circle in Trinity
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PLATTSBURGH — The cold bit their ears, fingers and cheeks as they picked up a wreath and walked slowly over to a gravestone. They silently observed the name on the grave before bending over and leaning the wreath on the stone. “Visit each gravestone and research them,” said Kathy Baumgarten. “They were real Americans with families. They were more than just a statistic.” They gathered at the Old Post Cemetery in Plattsburgh as part of Wreaths Across America, a coordinated, nationwide event at military cemeteries across the United States. The annual tradition began in 1992, when Morrill Worcester, owner of a Maine