“In the past 11 years… countless stories have been told - countless memorials have been built – and countless tears have fallen. But your presence here, this year and every other, has meaning far beyond words. Because your presence here today means your loved ones are with us, too. They are with us in the faces that I know are still vivid in your minds. They are with us in remembered voices - in the love you feel in your heart." Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman at Connecticut Remembers Memorial 2012.

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