c. 2015 USA Today
In the early hours Thursday morning, residents shaken to the core in Charleston, South Carolina, held hands and formed a circle of prayer down the street from what was another mass shooting in the U.S.
It has happened before in a kindergarten class, a college campus, a movie theater, a McDonald’s. The words resonate as places forever linked with the unspeakable: Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech, Luby’s.

