Sandy Hook Memorial

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The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial is a memorial in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, that honors the twenty children and six educators who were victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on the morning of December 14, 2012. The memorial is located at 32A Riverside Road in the woods adjacent to the reconstructed Sandy Hook Elementary School, built near the site of the original school that was razed. Planning for a memorial began in 2013 when Newtown, Connecticut's board of selectmen appointed the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission. The five-acre (2.0 ha) site, donated by the Boys Social and Athletic Club of Sandy Hook, was chosen from among 17 potential properties after commission members heard children playing on the nearby school's playground during a site walk. The winning design, created by architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo of SWA Group, was selected from a pool of 189 submissions. US$3.7 million (equivalent to $4.4M in 2025) to construct the memorial was narrowly approved...

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