I’ve tried to describe to my children what it was like in the United States after the horrific Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. My oldest child was 1 year old at the time and doesn’t remember the aftermath, when we came together to mourn and express our love for each other and our country, and our outrage at those who would attack us.

Somewhere in between 2001 and today, we lost our ability to feel the level of shared trust and warmheartedness toward one another required to cry together.

Our hearts all broke on Wednesday when, once again, a school shooter took the lives of children in a place where they should be safe. This time they were children who were in the act of praying and worshipping God during a schoolwide Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. Two children, ages

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