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At the bottom of the hill from the firehouse in Newtown, Conn., across the street from where she has just laid white flowers and lit a candle for the dead of Sandy Hook Elementary School, is Andrea Jaeger, once a star tennis girl. She is here because once again schoolchildren have been slaughtered and she wants to help.
It happened in 1996 in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children shot dead in a school there. One of those who survived that day was a 9-year-old named Andy Murray who hid under a desk in a headmaster’s study when his school was entered by a killer with a gun. Jaeger, whose life’s work since tennis has involved helping children, flew to Dunblane after that shooting.
She didn’t know how she could help. She just wanted to help. She brought...
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