THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNOR JOIN THE CITIZENS OF NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT AT AN INTERFAITH VIGIL OF REMEMBRANCE............

The President of the United States and the Governor of Connecticut are present in Newtown tonight, to take part in an Ecumenical, InterFaith, Prayer Vigil in Remembrance of the 26 school children and teachers, who were massacred on Friday morning, by a 20 year old man, who also killed himself and his own mother, in a senseless tragedy.  At what is scheduled at a two hour service religious leaders of all major American Faith traditions are expected to speak and offer prayers, and sacred readings, in the auditorium of a Newtown High School.  President Obama will deliver an address, which the White House has informed the media was written in part by President Obama, in conjunction with a speechwriter who also assisted him in writing the address he delivered last year in Tuscon, Arizona; after Congresswoman Gaby Giffords and other victims were shot by a guman; and the eulogy the President delivered at the Funeral of Senator Edward Kennedy, in 2009.  Connecticut Governor Daniel Malloy, will speak just prior to President Obama, near the end of the Vigil, which will then be concluded by Reverend Monsignor Robert Weiss, the Pastor of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, in Newtown, Connecticut............tdp