Around Thanksgiving in 2012, Noah Pozner was happy with the toys he had received for his sixth birthday and had started plotting play dates with his friends. “He’d just lost his first tooth and was also very excited about that,” said his father, Leonard Pozner.
A few weeks later, on December 14, Noah became the youngest victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the worst school shooting in American history.
Twenty children, all six or seven years old, and six staff were gunned down by a young man called Adam Lanza that Friday morning in Newtown, Connecticut. Noah’s twin sister and another sister survived.