Moment of Silence, 26 Bells to Remember Newtown Victims

Bells across the country will ring 26 times Friday morning—one for each of the victims killed in last week’s Newtown shooting—to mark the one-week anniversary of the elementary school attack.

On Monday, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy requested participation from all houses of worship and buildings equipped to carry out the symbolic gesture. He also requested a statewide moment of silence at 9:30 a.m., “exactly one week after the horror began to unfold.”

Governors from Louisiana to Hawaii to Illinois promptly joined Malloy’s call for a moment to remember the twenty schoolchildren and six faculty members killed in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history, as did a group from the technology world, who are planning an Internet-based moment of silence.
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