A National Park Service employee lowers flags at the base of the Washington Monument to half staff December 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. The residents of an idyllic Connecticut town were reeling in ... more 

A National Park Service employee lowers flags at the base of the Washington Monument to half staff December 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. The residents of an idyllic Connecticut town were reeling in horror Saturday from the massacre of 20 small children and six adults at a school, in one of the worst mass shootings in US history less