Newtown healing from the inside out

Mourners attend the vigil at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Photo: Jason Rearick

A crowd gathers in front of a memorial with 26 cardboard angels to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on Church Hill Road, Newtown, Conn., Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012. Photo: Bob Luckey

A large group of boy scouts attended the funeral of Benjamin Wheeler, at Trinity Episcopal Church, in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 20th, 2012. Wheeler is one of twenty students killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday. Photo: Ned Gerard

Family and friends hug each other after the memorial service for Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Lauren Rousseau at the First Congregational Church on Deer Hill Avenue in Danbury. Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 Photo: Scott Mullin

Volunteers errect a large banner displaying a dove in preparation for the vigil at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Photo: Jason Rearick

Sarah Ferris, 20, right, coordinates volunteers in preparation for a candle light vigil on the soccer fields of Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Photo: Jason Rearick

Mourners attend the vigil at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Photo: Jason Rearick

Sam Hallaway, of Danbury, bends down so a boy can say hello to his cat, Phantom Queen, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 in front of a memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. Photo: Autumn Driscoll

People, including Joe Saleem, center, observe a moment of silence led by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and First Selectman Patricia Llodra in front of Edmond Town Hall in Newtown. The moment of silence and bell tolling was held across the state on Friday, December 21, 2012, the one week anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings. Saleem said he lived in Newtown for 54 years but moved to North Carolina. But after the violence that took 28 people, Saleem returned to his hometown. "I've had three sleepless nights," he said. Photo: Joshua Trujillo, Joshua Trujillo/Hearst Newspaper

Shane Price, of Newtown, works on decorations the stage in preparation for the vigil at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Price attended Sandy Hook Elementary School when he was younger. Photo: Jason Rearick

Volunteers errect an American flag-patterned display in preparation for the vigil at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Photo: Jason Rearick

Kevin Yacko looks at an American flag hung by he and his son, Thomas, as it flies at the "Exit 10 Chapel" in honor of the 26 people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The two set up a makeshift memorial in an otherwise unremarkable vacant lot after the shooting took place. âÄúWeâÄôve flown this flag in happier times, and weâÄôre very close to what happened in Sandy Hook,âÄù Kevin said. âÄúSo we set up the truck and the flag and within one hour, someone brought a small blue tent. Then candles came, teddy bears, flowers, a piece of carpet, a board to sign.âÄù Photo: Cody Duty, Cody Duty/Hearst Newspapers

A flag pole in the middle of a corn field near Sugar Street in Newtown flies at half-mast on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, one week after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Photo: Jason Rearick