GUNS POPULATED AMERICA

MORE GUNS THAN PEOPLE

Monday marks the first two burials of the 20 young children massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School last week.

Jack Pinto, 6, is remembered as a huge football fan who loved the New York Giants. Wide receiver Victor Cruz visited Pinto's grieving family, and wrote "Jack Pinto, My Hero" on the young boy's cleats.

Noah Pozner, also 6, loved reading and figuring out how things worked mechanically, his uncle, Alexis Haller, told the Associated Press. Haller said the boy was "smart as a whip." Pozner's twin sister, Arielle, survived the shooting. He had called Arielle his "best friend."

Pinto and Pozner's funerals are scheduled for 1 p.m. in Newtown and Fairfield, Conn., respectively. 

  

Details On Funeral And Burial Process

The president of the Connecticut Funeral Director's Association said the funeral and burial process for Newtown victims, which began Monday with the separate burials of Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, who both were six-years-old, is unlike anything he has seen before.


"I've unfortunately seen lots of kids who have died," said Pasquale Forino, 46, who runs Neilan Funeral Home in New London, Conn. "But this truly shakes your foundation to the core, and in a small town like Newtown, they need lots of help to handle this week of burials."

Forino and a group of morticians who have volunteered have driven to Newtown every day since Friday to help tend to families who are grieving and prepare arriving bodies for viewings and burials. The main funeral home in the town, Honan Funeral Home, is handling the process for 11 victims. Of those, Forino said he has worked on three -- all kids.

"It's not about me, it's about the families and victims. But it still affects us," he said. "We do what we can do to take care of the families. We'll deal with our own emotional needs later." 

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Source: Haffington Post 

AMERICA AT WAR & HEALTH CARE

Let me make my point first. It is my conviction that peace is the healer. Anything disjoined, or fragmented, is not of peace, which also speaks of oneness and solidity. Since the WW II America has become the ‘world’s police’ an expression I heard used by several Europeans, Germans in particular. I could go into human psychology here, but that is not the point. Out of necessity, I guess, the US was forced to fight foreign wars. Despite our shortcomings the foundation upon which we have built this Nation is solid and it should remain sound and strong. God blessed us with smartness and innovative abilities, an envy of the nations. This envy will continue and even it will increase; therefore, we either open the gates (of immigration) or shut them down for good.

RELIGION AS A PICTURE FRAME

Who says that religion is stupid? More than three and a half percent of the world's population claims to be religious. 

Like politics, economics or even science religion is a frame that holds a picture of the divine. And regardless how ugly, unclear or even false that picture may be, the frame itself can be quite beautiful. 

In this world of ours some frames are more valuable than the picture itself they try to portray. These elaborately ornamented picture frames attract many people who are searching for the meaning of life and they need help, but too often the picture only hinders and obscures the bright and clear light of truth.