Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:49 PM

rbrnmw (7,160 posts)

One little girl played dead

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/sandy-hook-classroom-survivor-played-dead-165139277--abc-news-topstories.html

Amazing

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17 replies	Author	Time	Post
One little girl played dead (Original post)	rbrnmw	Dec 2012	OP
...	ellisonz	Dec 2012	#1
I hope they give her all the mental health care and support she needs.	Cleita	Dec 2012	#2
Can you imagine?	BigDemVoter	Dec 2012	#7
It is incredible the presence of mind	Cha	Dec 2012	#3
ABC turns this into a God story! Where the hell was God while 20 kids were killed.	Coyotl	Dec 2012	#4
They just can't resist the urge to do so. . . .	BigDemVoter	Dec 2012	#5
Their parents didn't pray enough,	PCIntern	Dec 2012	#8
They disgust me	malaise	Dec 2012	#6
exactly where was the divine intervention	rbrnmw	Dec 2012	#9
Maybe God was playing dead too	Bucky	Dec 2012	#16
I think her brother was interviewed	DevonRex	Dec 2012	#10
Impressive	jimlup	Dec 2012	#11
I was told this by my teachers	HockeyMom	Dec 2012	#12
Regardless if she was told or it was already in her	jimlup	Dec 2012	#13
Absolutely	HockeyMom	Dec 2012	#15
the downside: this only works if you're surrounded by dead bodies.	Bucky	Dec 2012	#17
Where was the divine intervention when	malaise	Dec 2012	#14

Response to rbrnmw (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:52 PM

ellisonz (27,186 posts)

1. ...

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Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:54 PM

Cleita (75,480 posts)

2. I hope they give her all the mental health care and support she needs.

She will suffer from guilt from being the only one to survive. It will live with her the rest of her life.

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Response to Cleita (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:15 PM

BigDemVoter (3,933 posts)

7. Can you imagine?

Hopefully she's so young that these awful memories will somehow fade. I don't know though. . . .

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Response to rbrnmw (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:59 PM

Cha (276,163 posts)

3. It is incredible the presence of mind

she had to be so still when covered in blood and the horror around her. Bless her heart and those children whose lives were taken. :loyeya:

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Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:04 PM

Coyotl (15,262 posts)

4. ABC turns this into a God story! Where the hell was God while 20 kids were killed.

Divine intervention my ass!

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Response to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:14 PM

BigDemVoter (3,933 posts)

5. They just can't resist the urge to do so. . . .

There is NO answer to this other than a crazy maniac and a little girl who was extremely intuitive and fortunate in the face of something so ghastly. Thankfully, she had the bravery and the intelligence to somehow know what to do, if there even WAS a right or wrong thing to do.

When they say "god" saved her, it makes one wonder where "god" was for the other children-- were they expendable?

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Response to BigDemVoter (Reply #5)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:18 PM

PCIntern (22,303 posts)

8. Their parents didn't pray enough,

Don't you know?

One of my employees was not as damaged by Sandy as much as others and she said that it was because she'd prayed harder.

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Response to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:15 PM

malaise (244,290 posts)

6. They disgust me

NO one exploits these crises more than the media and the religious folks.

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Response to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 08:50 PM

rbrnmw (7,160 posts)

9. exactly where was the divine intervention

for the other victims?

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Response to Coyotl (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 02:16 PM

Bucky (51,103 posts)

16. Maybe God was playing dead too

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Response to rbrnmw (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 09:19 PM

DevonRex (22,541 posts)

10. I think her brother was interviewed

Before he saw her the day of the shooting. And then again the day after. The day after he said his little sister had been covered in blood when they first saw her and it was gory. He almost broke down telling it. I can't remember his name but he was in his teens and had nice brown hair and he was a handsome young man. Clearly loves his little sister dearly.

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Response to rbrnmw (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 09:33 PM

jimlup (7,862 posts)

11. Impressive

I'm a scientist so I can't help but think this way. I wonder if such actions are built into us from evolution?

Anyway I'm thankful that someone survived.

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Response to jimlup (Reply #11)

Mon Dec 17, 2012, 10:22 PM

HockeyMom (14,337 posts)

12. I was told this by my teachers

back in the 50s growing up in NYC. If you are ever around gunfire immediately drop to the floor and play dead. Don't try to run away or you will be shot.

Brought back a lot of memories for me when I heard she did this. Makes me wonder if she was told by someone to do this.

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Response to HockeyMom (Reply #12)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 01:02 PM

jimlup (7,862 posts)