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Obama arrives in Connecticut – to speak at an interfaith vigil
U.S. President Obama emotional as he talks about the Connecticut school shooting. PHOTO/Carolyn Kaster/AP
Air Force One touched down at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks around 4 p.m. Sunday as President Barack Obama arrived in Connecticut two days after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Mr. Obama will attend an interfaith memorial service in Newtown and meet with victims’ families and first responders.
The vigil is scheduled for 7 p.m. EST at Newtown High School.
Hours after the shooting, a tearful Obama said he grieved first as a father. In those remarks and later in his Saturday radio address, Obama called for “meaningful action” to prevent such shootings, but did not say what it should be.
Obama’s visit to Newtown for an interfaith vigil will be the fourth time he has traveled to a city after a mass shooting.
The president had planned to travel to Maine Wednesday for an event promoting his positions in “fiscal cliff” negotiations, but the White House canceled that trip because of the shooting.
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