Proclamation of Mourning: Connecticut School Shooting

The Office of the Prime Minister
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L'Óifisch dal Seneschal

Proclamation of Mourning

With all the changes that are going on in the kingdom, it pains me that this is my first order of duty as your new Seneschal. As many of you have heard, or will shortly hear, yet another act of senseless violence has taken innocent lives in Connecticut. Innocence lends horror to violence, and none are more innocent than our children. It is with great empathy for the friends and families of the deceased, and with horror at the actions that have caused the need for empathy, that I issue this Proclamation of Mourning for the kingdom. My heart and the heart of the nation goes out to all involved. 


WHEREAS the loss of innocent life is horrible and always to be mourned, and

WHEREAS none are more innocent than children, and

WHEREAS the people of the Kingdom of Talossa are to be counted on to stand strong against needless violence, 

THEREFORE the government of the Kingdom of Talossa calls upon all its citizens to observe a period of mourning extending through the 15th of December 2012, for the victims of elementary school shooting in Connecticut. We offer our thoughts and prayers for the innocent lives lost, and to those who survive them. 

Done with the deepest sympathy for our friends and neighbors in Connecticut on this, the fourteenth day of December in the year 2012, being the thirty-third year of the independence of Talossa and the sixth of the reign of our Sovereign John.

Çesli da Chilseu
Seneschal