NEWTOWN, Conn. — "Every day in this first year is a very difficult journey," said Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son Daniel was one of the 20 schoolchildren slain last December here in the Sandy Hook shooting massacre. "And with the anniversary of the tragedy coming up, it seems to be getting more difficult."
This is plainly so. The town was roiled anew by a newspaper article last month based on interviews with anonymous law enforcement workers offering fresh and painful details on the six-minute, 154-round onslaught from a troubled 20-year-old who murdered six adults as well with an assault rifle. A promised official state report on the shootings, which residents find puzzlingly overdue, will rake the emotional trauma again when it eventually comes out.
Mr. Barden is paying no great attention; the findings won't bring Daniel back. "I certainly don't seek that stuff out," he said of the forensics, preferring the more life-resilient messages stirred by his family's memorial website, whatwoulddanieldo.com.
Empathetic residents wince at the certainty of heavy news coverage returning next month for the Dec. 14 anniversary. "We all dread it; we'd rather be elsewhere," said a woman who puzzled over a photo shoot outside a local bagel shop, the scene for a magazine's look back for its Christmas issue. News helicopters and media crews swarmed back in briefly last month when the town began carrying out the full demolition of the schoolhouse — a cry for closure approved by almost 90 percent of the voters.
Town officials, fiercely protective of the victims' families, mandated extraordinary demolition secrecy. The scene is permanently guarded with fences, masked from prying eyes. Confidentiality agreements were required of the wrecking crews so that not a brick or book from the school would be smuggled off to whatever freakish market exists for massacre memorabilia. Town officials even resisted the routine release of death certificates and 911 emergency transcripts from the shootings.
The town is discovering what all scenes of American mass gun tragedy ultimately learn: the suffering lingers long and even compounds within communities yearning for recovery. The local Newtown Bee newspaper put it this way: "On some days it seems like the great tragedy Newtown suffered on 12/14 has created its own ever-expanding universe, surging out from a big bang amplified by cameras and microphones to places unknown."
Mr. Barden plans a family respite reaching beyond those places. "We'll be leaving town for the anniversary, ditching the whole thing," he said.
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