Newtown photos tell tale of agony, hope
Bells toll in Newtown for school shooting victims.
A makeshift memorial with crosses for the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre stands outside a home in Newtown, Conn., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, the one-year anniversary of the shootings. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, white roses bearing the faces of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are displayed on a telephone pole near the school in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
On the first anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, firefighters lower the town's flag on Main Street to half-staff in honor of the victims, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
People pause in silence while church bells ring in honor of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, in Newtown, Conn. Newtown is asking that people honor the victims one the one-year anniversary in ways that are quiet and personal. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
In this Dec. 15, 2012 file photo, a U.S. flag flies at half-staff on Main Street in honor of the 26 people killed when gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside a Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama take a moment of silence in honor of the Newtown shooting victims on the one year anniversary of the tragedy, in the Map Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo provided by the Newtown Bee, Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where gunman Adam Lanza opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks, File) MANDATORY CREDIT: NEWTOWN BEE, SHANNON HICKS
In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, Carlee Soto uses a phone to get information about her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., after gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people inside the school, including 20 children. Victoria Soto, 27, was among those killed. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, Robert and Alissa Parker, at right, leave a firehouse staging area following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school, killing 26 children and adults, including the Parkers' daughter Emilie Parker, 6. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
This file image released Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, by the Danbury, Conn., States Attorney from the "Appendix to Report on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda St., Newtown, Connecticut On December 14, 2012," shows a scene inside the entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school on Dec. 14, 2012, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before killing himself as police arrived. (AP Photo/Office of the Connecticut State's Attorney Judicial District of Danbury, File)
This file image released Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, by the Danbury, Conn., States Attorney from the "Appendix to Report on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda St., Newtown, Connecticut On December 14, 2012," shows a weapon found at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school on Dec. 14, 2012, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before killing himself as police arrived. (AP Photo/Office of the Connecticut State's Attorney Judicial District of Danbury, File)
This undated identification file photo released Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/Western Connecticut State University, File)
This file image released Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, by the Danbury, Conn., States Attorney from the "Appendix to Report on the Shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and 36 Yogananda St., Newtown, Connecticut On December 14, 2012," shows a scene at 36 Yogananda St., where gunman Adam Lanza lived with his mother in Newtown, Conn. Lanza opened fire inside the school on Dec. 14, 2012, killing 20 first-graders and six educators before killing himself as police arrived. (AP Photo/Office of the Connecticut State's Attorney Judicial District of Danbury, File)
In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, a police cruiser sits in the driveway as crime scene tape surrounds the home of Nancy Lanza in Newtown, Conn. Nancy Lanza was killed there by her son Adam Lanza, before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, where he killed 26 children and adults. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
In this Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, as hundreds stand outside St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, which was filled to capacity, a couple embrace during a healing service held in for victims of a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Gunman Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school earlier that day, killing 26 people, including 20 children. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
In this Dec. 17, 2012 file photo, Frank Kulick adjusts a display of wooden crosses, and a Jewish Star of David, representing the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, on his front lawn in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
In this Dec. 16, 2012 file photo, Newtown Police Officer Maryhelen McCarthy wipes away tears while placing flowers at a makeshift memorial outside of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
In this Jan. 14, 2013 file photo, Jimmy Greene, left, kisses his wife Nelba Marquez-Greene while holding a portrait of their daughter, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Ana Marquez-Greene, at a news conference at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn. Ana Marquez-Greene was one of 26 people killed when Adam Lanza opened fire inside the school on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
In this Dec. 18, 2012 file photo, Robert Soltis, of Newtown, Conn., pauses after making the sign of the cross at a memorial to Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims in Newtown. Adam Lanza walked into the school on Dec. 14, 2012, and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children, before killing himself. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
In this Jan. 3, 2013 file photo, a bus traveling from Newtown to Monroe, Conn., stops in front of 26 angels along the roadside on the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students since the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting. Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled so Sandy Hook students could be relocated to a different building after the shooting on Dec. 14, 2012, where 26 were gunned down inside the school building in Newtown. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
In this Dec. 25, 2012 file photo, snow-covered stuffed animals with photos attached sit at a makeshift memorial in Newtown, Conn. Adam Lanza opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
In this Oct. 28, 2013 aerial file photo, workers use backhoes to remove rubble during the demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where gunman Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six adult educators on Dec. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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As incredible as the news coming out of Newtown was a year ago, as wrenching as the images of frightened children and grieving relatives were, delicate expressions of support and hope also emerged.
White roses bearing the visages and names of those who lost their lives to the gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The warm nighttime glow of a church offering solace to the mourning. A pile of snow-dusted teddy bears laid out in homage to the tiny victims.
Other images — including those of the gunman and evidence photos from within the school — drive home the senselessness of the day folks in Newtown simply call “12/14.”
Here’s a gallery of images that show the horror that visited a New England town on a December day, and its resilience.
