Some pictures are just too heartbreaking for words.

 

 

Martin Richard was 8 years old before this year's Boston marathon. I'm sure the punk-ass coward who set off the bomb is taking delight in his work even now.

 

Two of my grandsons are nine. I so see them in this picture.

 

 

 

Hadiyah Pendleton. Great kid, All-American kid, a highly intelligent kid, a kid of great character. She would make any family proud. She and her band played at the President's inaugural. It had to have been a highlight of her young life. I'm glad she got to experience that, because days later she was shot dead. Someone thought she was in a rival gang.

 

And the pic is just too heartbreaking.

 

What have we all missed, when we lose a boy who chose his message to any and all: "No more hurting people." What have we lost when we lose a young lady about whom Michelle Obama would say, "I was Hadiyeh, and Hadiyeh was me"?

 

What are we losing?

 

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What are we doing to ourselves? Hadiyeh, Martin, Newtown - kids. Kids. May God be good to all of you. And may She have mercy on us.

 

Do you have answers? I'd love to hear them. I know I surely don't.

 

Do you have an answer?