By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
For a third straight day Wednesday, funeral processions rolled through a grieving Connecticut town trying to make sense of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six adults in an elementary school less than two weeks before Christmas.
She said that on the morning of the shooting, Mark Barden played a game with his son and taught him a Christmas song on the piano.
Family friend Laura Stamberg of New Paltz, N.Y., whose husband plays in a band with Daniel's father, Mark, said Daniel was a thoughtful boy who held doors for people and would sit with another child if he saw one sitting alone.
