Mr. President, I rise in honor of the innocent lives that were lost in Newtown, CT, on December 14, when a madman murdered 26 students, teachers, and administrators, as well as his own mother. The terrible act of violence that occurred that day has left the whole Nation wounded and shaken. In the wake of this tragedy, Mr. Albert Caswell penned the following poem: We Now So Weep in memory of all the lost lives and the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school (By Albert Carey Caswell) We Now So Weep We . . . We now so weep . . . All in our hearts so very deep! All in this pain to so repeat! Forever now so to keep! We now so weep! And from all of this heartache! What must we now so take! And what sense from all of this, must we now so make? All so very deep, deep down inside all of our souls to so create . . . That there is a battle! And there is a fight! That which but so rages on this very night! Of Good Vs. Evil . . . Of wrong or so right! And that hate is hard, as it makes me weep! It makes me cry! When, I so see those tears in your parent's eyes! And that our moments together upon this earth, are such so very short ones there so first! So hold your families close, and always remember what but means the most! All in your hearts so very deep! As all across this nation, we now so weep . . . As the tears run down our faces so deep! At this evil our souls so tries to defeat! All in these our darkest hours of heartbreak, which now so beat . . . As it's for them we now so weep!…
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