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I saw many families while I was there.  It was hard watching adults struggling to cope with their own emotions while caring for children who were far too young to understand the significance of the flags around them.  Too the credit of the children, I didn't see any who could not somehow sense that this was a special place.  For a few moments, everyone who came, young and old, male and female, families, and even a group of mentally handicapped individuals stopped their busy daily lives to remember.  If those who caused this pain only knew how much stronger we have become, and how terribly their comrades have paid, and will continue to pay, for this horrible crime, I wonder if they still would have done what they did.