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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Veronique Pozner, front, the mother of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Noah Pozner, arrives for his burial at the B'nai Israel Cemetery in Monroe, Conn., on Monday, Dec. 17. Two funerals on Monday ushered in what will be a week of memorial services and burials for the 20 children and six adults killed at the school in Newtown, Conn.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
A couple walks away away from the burial service for 6-year-old Jack Pinto at the Newtown Village Cemetery in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 17. Pinto was one of 20 schoolchildren killed in the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
By Tracy Connor, Miranda Leitsinger and Ian Johnston, NBC News
With tears and hugs, a grief-rocked Connecticut town said farewell Monday to the first of its slain children: two 6-year-olds being buried in unbearably small coffins on a cold, gray day.
The funerals of first-graders Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto will be followed by two dozen more services over coming days as the other children and staffers murdered at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday are laid to rest.
A misty rain was in the air as mourners -- many in black, others in school gear emblazoned with a capital “N” -- gathered outside the Honan Funeral Home on Main St. for Jack’s funeral. Continue reading.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
A hearse carrying the casket of 6-year-old Jack Pinto is driven to the Newtown Village Cemetery during his funeral service in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 17.
Jason Decrow / AP
Mourners hug before the funeral service for 6-year-old Noah Pozner, on Dec. 17 in Fairfield, Conn.
David Goldman / AP
Mourners gather outside the funeral service for Jack Pinto, 6, on Dec. 17 in Newtown, Conn.
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Mourners arrive for the funeral service for Noah Pozner, 6, on Dec. 17 in Fairfield, Conn.
Mario Tama / Getty Images
A man comforts a boy outside Honan Funeral Home before the funeral for 6-year-old Jack Pinto on Dec. 17 in Newtown, Conn.
David Friedman / NBC News
Kanga Kanh, left, and Channary Pich prepare to place 26 balloons at a makeshift memorial at the entrance to Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 17 in Newtown, Conn.
David Goldman / AP
David Freedman, right, kneels with his son Zachary, 9, both of Newtown, Conn., as they visit a sidewalk memorial for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims on Dec. 16.
Previously on PhotoBlog:
- Vigils, services honor Connecticut school shooting victims
- Memorials in New York and Washington for Conn. school shooting victims
- President Obama orders flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Conn. school shooting victims
Julio Cortez / AP
A nation mourns after the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history at Sandy Hook Elementary, which left 20 children and six staff members dead.
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My son has Autism and has drawn a knife on his Mother several times. It’s very sad that the opponents of gun control dribble out of the woodwork, like the political maggots they are demanding new gun laws when there is a traumatic incident as the one in Massachusetts. However there are limits to what help you can receive from the medical profession as my family has found out. THERE IS LITTLE INTERVENTION OR ASSISTANCE TO HALT THIS TERRIBLE NEUROLOGICAL BRAIN IMBALANCE. ONCE AGAIN IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY AND THE SILENCE FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES WHO ARE BENEFITING FROM THIS ISSUE WITH BUCKETFUL OF DRUGS.OF COURSE THERE IS ANOTHER FACTOR THAT THE GUN ADVOCATES SAY LITTLE ABOUT, IN THAT THE DRUG COMPANIES MAY BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY IN THE INJECTIONS CONTAINING SMALL AMOUNTS OF TOXIC MERCURY GIVEN TO BABIES AT TIME OF BIRTH. In addition an only small contribution is evident to the growing problem of Autism, which is reaching uncomfortable proportions? More money is needed for research relating to the Autism Spectrum Disorder, which thousands of families must deal with on a daily basis. There are no guns in my household and yet I do not blame gun owners, the NRA or others who possess them to protect their families from heinous criminals who will circumvent any new gun laws.