Boston Herald - Boston Herald: With parade, Newtown reflects 'how we're healing'

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With parade, Newtown reflects 'how we're healing' Aug 31st 2013, 21:29, by By Associated Press, Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. — Ten thousand decisions go into creating a big, boisterous parade. No one knows that better than Robin Buchanan, who for years has juggled the lineup at the Labor Day parade that has jubilantly closed out every Newtown summer for more than five decades. But never before had this happened: Calls and emails from regulars, folks who always marched, concerned about the most basic decision of all. "Are you going to have a parade," they asked her, "this year?" This year. Media files: In this Oct. 9, 2011, file photo, Civil War re-enactors fire a salute as spectators cover their ears during the Labor Day parade in Newtown, Conn. The 11th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Company A will march again in the town's annual parade, but with black armbands and rifles pointed downward, a gesture of mourning, according to a father of a member of the unit. "They had decided independently that they shouldn't be firing," Dan Cruson said, nearly nine months after shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 26 dead, 20 of them children. (image/jpeg) This April 2012 photo provided by the family shows Avielle Richman, center, with her parents Jennifer Hensel and Jeremy Richman in Boston. Avielle was among the 20 children killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. On Labor Day 2013, Hensel and Richman will walk in Newtown's parade behind a banner for the foundation named after their daughter, which supports research into the brain pathologies behind violence. It also promotes community outreach, so that isolated, vulnerable individuals, like the accused shooter, are not ignored. "I feel that a way for us to heal is to pull into the community," Hensel said. So they'll march, thinking of their daughter, her husband said. "Avielle loved parades." (image/jpeg) In this Dec. 19, 2012, file photo, firefighters and others line up as a hearse travels through the Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn., during a procession toward St. Rose of Lima parish cemetery for the burial of Daniel Gerard Barden, one of the children killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that killed 26, 20 of which were children. The 7-year-old dreamed of being a firefighter. The town's upcoming 2013 parade faced for the first time calls and emails from regulars, folks who always marched, concerned about the most basic decision of all_how to proceed with a parade this year, nearly nine months after shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School left 26 dead, 20 of them children. (image/jpeg)

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