“Playing Dead” Saves Little Girl’s Life
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 20th, 2012
Good morning!
Like you I’m sure, the Sandy Hook victims have been slipping into my mind throughout my days. This atrocity is so devastating, it is one that hangs around. And rightly so. If we have any humanity in our hearts, we shouldn’t be able to so easily let something like this pass without being deeply disturbed.
And like many of you, I watch the news and read HOPEing that the ripple of this horrible morning will inspire us…people…our governments to do something…pass a gun law, and not just a state law but a federal law, that will truly prevent something like this from ever happening again.
While reading I found this write. Sometimes in the midst of monstrous pain and loss, there is a small shining light that emerges.
Sandy Hook School Girl Plays Dead, Survives Elementary Shooting; Pastor Jim Solomon Recounts Story (VIDEO)
When little children play “let’s pretend,” the stakes should never be so high.
When killer Adam Lanza brought terror to Sandy Hook Elementary school, one 6-year-old girl had the wit to play dead and save herself from the horrific fate of her classmates.
Local pastor Jim Solomon, who spoke to the first grader after Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., recounted the story to ABC News. Of 16 children in the classroom, the unidentified girl was the only survivor.
“She ran out of the school building covered from head to toe with blood and the first thing she said to her mom was, ‘Mommy, I’m OK but all my friends are dead,’” Solomon said. “Somehow in that moment, by God’s grace, she was able to act as she was already deceased.”
The girl was reportedly the first student to flee the building after the massacre at the school, which left 20 children, six adults and the gunman dead.
Solomon told ABC News that the girl and her parents are doing “as well as you can expect them to” after the heartbreaking incident.
The first two of 20 children whose lives were taken will be buried today.
Sandy Hook Elementary School remains closed, and police believe it will take more than a month before they turn the school grounds back over to the district. The investigation into Lanza – who carried an arsenal of guns and ammunition as he acted out his gruesome and suicidal mission — is ongoing.
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Readers: Whining and crying will get you killed – “playing dead” won’t. What a brave, smart little girl! Blog me.
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December 21st, 2012 at 8:10 am
If I was a parent of a child who went through this terrible ordeal, I wouldn’t let the press within 100 feet of my kid. The police detectives are the only people who have any business questioning them about their experience.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:11 am
Howie, I couldn’t get in to ask you if you knew how the vote would come out. But I saw the story later.
Fine stuff, man. It will make a great story.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:12 am
We don’t have a press anymore. We have a bunch of ghouls who will print or say anything to get ratings, no matter if there is any truth in it.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:12 am
The breaking news portion of this event is over, now begins the media’s seemingly ghoulish delight in rehashing a horrific event from every possible angle. Leave the people to mourn their dead in peace.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:13 am
What a brave and courageous wonder! May she have peace one day and be able to move past this horror. PLEASE keep her anonymity so she isn’t further harmed.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:13 am
I need to stop reading these. My heart is just breaking.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:14 am
Suffering from PTSD myself from Vietnam I wish this little girl could have a Miracle happen and erase her memory of the horror she went through. She is way too young to carry this burden, it hurts too much. Pray her Family will see that she is loved and sees the right help. Maybe a move away from… More
December 21st, 2012 at 8:15 am
Good heavens don’t release her name. The media will break their necks to stick a microphone in her face so they can boost their ratings. The child has been through enough, leave her alone.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:16 am
Move PAST the horror! yea!! LEAVE em alone! They don’t need REMINDERS!!!
December 21st, 2012 at 8:18 am
Howie. Where do you get these great stories? You must have the most imaginative mind when it comes to aliens in the modern era.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:19 am
God did not allow this, a manicial person shot his way into a school and snuffed out 26 precious lives. God opened His arms to receive them into paradise.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:20 am
Let her star in a new movie about the slaughter. Her family and she deserves the millions after what she and they went through.
It will serve to digest the trauma.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:20 am
makes me sick when people question why GOD would allow such acts- um he does not sit and allow anything. we were given life and what we do with it is our doing. remember- EVIL to walks among us. the shooter is now with the evil he chose.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:21 am
My mother said that my father wouldn’t cook steak or be around raw meat after action in ww2. He stayed around the house for a year not going out much he was very depressed.
These people remember what they’ve experienced their whole lives. And now these poor kids…innocent children should never have to experience something so terrible.
But the gamers keep putting out the killing games and the dark moody depressed creepos keep on playing them night and day. Just like Colombine
December 21st, 2012 at 8:22 am
Today is still here, So Howie why didn’t the world end?
December 21st, 2012 at 8:23 am
Would you people leave religion alone for at least a day. WTH…People grieve and believe in different things, get over it. when tragedy strikes, garbage like this shouldn’t matter…
What this poor little girl witnessed matters and what those parents lost is what matters. I am not religious, but i take no offense if someone says “God Bless”, etc…it’s all about having compassion. LET IT GO!
December 21st, 2012 at 8:24 am
God bless her and all the little angels who didn’t make it out of there. And prayers for all of those poor parents. The words have not been invented to describe their loss.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:25 am
I am sick about this, I live in California. I feel like I live in their town, that’s how deeply it has affected me. This poor child. I mean, thank goodness she is okay, but imagine what she went through, the fear and now being the only one who lived. My God.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:26 am
India #1, INDEED! You sure don’t mind reading what the press has to say about this.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:27 am
honestly though ive been at a loss for words for A few days from this horrendous and tragic incident but in all reality people are talking about how in all these massacres and shootings that no ones name is remembered except for the killers and the reason for that is the government wants us to live in fear its a way for them to control whats going on in different ways i know it sounds hanous but very true
December 21st, 2012 at 8:28 am
Iris#1, I Totally agree with you indeed. ignore jeff he’s brain damaged.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:29 am
i think the names of the sick minded individuals should be withheld forever and there families as well for the fact that i can go to google and find out everything just by having a last name i dont even neeed a first those children omg its so sad those are the names that should be remembered the victims but no the press wants to make sure we know whos to blame but it backfires every time seeing as how the people who are thinking about just offing themselves dont want to just be forgotten or thought about as a suicide victim no they want that glory after death THEY KNOW WELL REMEMBER THEM and the government is just feeding there messed up brains
December 21st, 2012 at 8:31 am
Joseph, why blame the media alone, if you did not read it, who would they sell it to? supply and demand my friend. You demand, they supply…
December 21st, 2012 at 8:31 am
If they quit reporting on it, people will quit thinking about it. That is a bad thing especially as the gun control debate heats up.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:32 am
yes needs to calm down, but to forget no, I put my 5yr on the bus thur and said I love you and for the first time i told him to be safe. I Prayed for safety for him and the schools across the country adn the children and staff of the sady hook school
December 21st, 2012 at 8:33 am
yes leave the families alone – but you read it and so did I
December 21st, 2012 at 8:40 am
Why You Weigh More Than You Think
Have you slimmed down during the past year, or have you put on a few extra pounds?
Unless you keep a close eye on your scale, odds are that you just answered that question incorrectly…and that you actually have no idea how your weight has changed.
A new report that measured weight changes between 2008 and 2009 found that most people had gained weight but were in denial about it.
The problem with this seemingly innocent self-deception is that “just a few” extra pounds really can accumulate over the years, which increases your risk for dangerous weight-related conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.
But there are easy ways to keep yourself honest…
ARE YOU IN DENIAL?
Just how badly do we lie to ourselves? Check out these findings…
In an ambitious statistical analysis, number-crunching scientists compared the overall average weight change in the US with the results of a massive, randomized health survey of about 400,000 Americans across the country.
In the survey, men reported weight losses that would have translated to a 2% decline in the overall prevalence of obesity over a one-year period, but the US statistics tell a different story.
The prevalence of obesity among men actually increased by 0.3% that year. The same sort of gap was seen among women. Female survey respondents reported weight losses that would have translated to a 0.9% decline in the overall prevalence of obesity over a one-year period. But, according to the US stats, the prevalence of obesity actually increased by 0.5% among women.
So subjects thought they had lost weight when they had most likely gained weight—and men were even more guilty of this than women!
When researchers broke down the numbers by age, they discovered that older participants were more likely to be farther off from the truth in their estimations. On average, participants between the ages of 18 and 50 underestimated their weight gain by about one pound, but those over the age of 50, specifically, underestimated their weight gain by about two pounds.
WHY ARE WE IN DENIAL?
Catherine Wetmore, PhD, lead study author, provided an interesting reason as to why we might be in collective denial about weight gain.
We’re now surrounded by very large people, so it’s more socially acceptable to be big—it’s “the new normal.” Even if you look in the mirror and your gut is hanging over your pants, you may not think much of it if the same thing is happening to your friends and neighbors.
So how do we stop lying to ourselves, either intentionally or accidentally? To learn more, I put in a call to Stephen Gullo, PhD, founder of the Center for Health and Weight Sciences in New York City.
HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF HONEST
The key is weighing yourself—but you don’t want to do it too often, or you may drive yourself crazy and become obsessed with your weight, which isn’t healthy.
Dr. Gullo’s suggestion: Weigh yourself weekly—no more, no less.
Do it in the morning on the same day every week, after you’ve gone to the bathroom but before you eat breakfast, to keep the measurement standard.
Choose a morning early in the work week, such as Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Otherwise, you may fall victim to what Gullo calls Friday Syndrome: “I’m down two pounds, so I can eat whatever I want this weekend!”
Each week you’ll get a reality check on your weight—and this knowledge really is the power you need to keep it healthy.
Sources: Catherine Wetmore, PhD, former postgraduate fellow, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle.
Dr. Wetmore is now a biostatistician at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Her study was published in Preventive Medicine.
Stephen Gullo, PhD, is the president and founder of the New York City-based Center for Health and Weight Sciences, ranked by The New York Times as one of the nation’s top two weight practices. He is author of Thin Tastes Better (Dell) and The Thin Commandments Diet (Rodale). http://www.DrGullo.com.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:41 am
I think our nation and possibly people around the globe are feeling heartbroken, angry, numb and feeling completely helpless, in the wake of such tragedy. Not only that, but Christmas is next Tuesday. I pray for the families that they will get through this.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:47 am
Dear Lord, take them by the hand and lead them home..
December 21st, 2012 at 8:48 am
Well said KO. Every story just gets worse and worse. It’s so unfathomable that I’m just completely numb and can’t make sense of any of it.
As a teacher, I can tell you I am drowning in all of those feelings. How do we protect our children from people who don’t care if they die?
It is an overwhelmingly helpless feeling. There has GOT to be a way to stop this…there just has to be.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:49 am
It’s been said that people in Newtown are taking down their Christmas decorations’ for they all have no heart for celebrating joyously…
though it seems to me that families that don’t have children in the Sandy Hook school are apt to keep their Christmas joy a bit more respectable but happy for their young ones. Bless all their hearts and keep them, O Lord, in the days to come.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:53 am
What a smart little girl!! She’s going to need a LOT of love and understanding to work through her survivor’s guilt.
December 21st, 2012 at 8:58 am
To all you fools bringing up God. Who do you think was in the room when the crazy mother was killing them babies?
God dosen’t give a damn about the beings he made.
Evidently he makes shit and moves on.
If the shit he makes doesn’t appreciate the miracle and act according, Why the fuck should he(they, in deference to Howie) care?
December 21st, 2012 at 8:59 am
There was another boy who ran out right past the killer in Ms. Soto’s class. I was watching his parents tell the story on CNN when they had audio difficulties and they never went back to it so I didn’t get the whole story.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:00 am
Shame on you who are being mean. These are Beautiful posts that show the best of the human spirit. We care deeply because we are decent human beings. I cried off & on all weekend.
The whole country is grieving. I just can’t imagine it . . . you drop your six year old off at school, & wave good-bye, & then there’s a phone call, or a knock on your door, & your world is shattered forever.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:01 am
Is that story not true? Like I said the audio went out. They said he ran right past him.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:02 am
Howie, I hope Obama can fix it and we get to see Aliens land on earth in my lifetime. I am 63.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:03 am
Yes John the story is correct. The little boy ran out of the class and he took several of his friends with him
December 21st, 2012 at 9:03 am
Yes that story is true…..I saw the entire interview with his parents. He took 3 of his friends with, waited as one couldn’t keep up and held the door for all the them.
A mother on her way to the school saw them running down the road and picked them up and took them to the police station.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:05 am
Glad to see you are back Howie. I had to make patrol, but when I was told you were back somehow I felt safer.
Dafne
December 21st, 2012 at 9:05 am
You americans are so crazy for you guns. Last year we had only 9 deaths by guns.
December 21st, 2012 at 9:13 am
…ah, even though this is a very public matter and everyone wants to hear the stories of the heroes, if it’s only for healing of hearts around the world, I’m ok with it though our media is trending towards sensationalizing everything to do with it, including throwing the mother under the bus for owning guns, etc…
I’ll sum it up for you, I received a text from a friend attending one of the many funerals, (won’t say who we know, I grew up in CT and this town is only 15 minutes away) and the street was barren and cold looking, as CT often looks when in winter when it’s not snowing, the streets were lined as far as the eye could see with people, 10 deep, the whole state came out it looked like…she wrote ‘I’m glad you’re there and not here, it’s beyond comprehension, there’s no words for the grief here’ so I have mixed feelings about it. Privacy and my love of it (it’s one thing I can protect in all matters if I want to keep my own secrets) would dictate to leave them alone to their grieving, then again, not everyone is like me and their healing takes place in the talking it out…
Luv, Zen Lill
December 21st, 2012 at 9:24 am
Wanted to add: sometimes in searching for the ‘real story’ the telling gets twisted and sordid in its details, the real story died along with the mother and son, which would’ve been tragic enough on its own, add all these young children to it and it’s heart wrenching and the ‘true’ story, just unknowable…
- ZL