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Newtown - "We Don't Have a Teacher" - Clip
In this excerpt from the Independent Lens film Newtown, Gene Rosen, a neighbor of Sandy Hook Elementary School, recalls his experience in 2012 finding two boys on his lawn who escaped the shooting at their school and had lost their teacher, while Syeda Suriya Ahmed, mother of a first grader who survived the shooting, recounts how her son's teacher told his class a story when locked in their classr
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