Peter D. Kramer
- Jesse McCord Lewis was 6 when he was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
- 20 kindergartners and 6 adults were murdered, making it the nation’s worst school shooting.
- Scarlett Lewis, Jesse’s mother, has created a curriculum designed to give children tools to deal with trauma and hurt, in the hope of avoiding future shootings.
Scarlett Lewis wanted the memorial, and even took part in planning it. But she doesn’t need the memorial to fathom what she lost 10 years ago, on Dec. 14, 2012.
“Every day,” she said, “is a day without my son.”
Still, she made her way past the firehouse in Newtown, Conn., whose roof holds six large metal stars and 20 small metal stars, an artist’s constellation of grief. It went up in the weeks after 20 kindergartners and six adults were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in the nation’s deadliest school shooting.
