PaulPallazola
Enough! In July 2015 My wife Kathy, our son Viterbo, daughter Violeta and I attended the wedding of our dear friend Alaina. Alaina was a therapist who worked with Viterbo when he was in an Early Childhood Intervention Program. Viterbo lost his ability to speak after receiving a flu shot when he was 14 months old. Alaina helped him relearn his words and develop the skills to attend school in an integrated classroom. She became close friends with Kathy and our family and has remained friends for years. Alaina lost her best college friend, Victoria Soto, during the Sandy Hook School shooting in December 2013. They were supposed to be in each other’s weddings, but that didn’t get to happen. After the Sandy Hook shootings Victoria’s family was harassed by rightwing extremists who insisted Victoria never existed and accused them of being paid “crisis actors” The NRA has spent a lot of money to present an alternate reality for its supporters. Imagine going through the grief of losing a loved one and then being accused of making it up, being told your daughter, sister, or best friend didn’t exist. That’s pretty cruel. Since Saturday NRA apologists have been shamelessly attacking the school kids who organized the nationwide March For Our Lives, as if these kids haven’t been through enough.
