R.I.P Hayley Petit, her sister and her mother.
&& even though i didn't know her very well at all, what happened was competely unjustifiable and cruel.

HAYLEY PETIT;;

You will always be in our hearts.

CHESHIRE, CT - A mother and her two daughters were killed during a home invasion Monday morning that ended with the arrest of two suspects who rammed several police cars as they tried to escape, authorities said.<br /><br />A fourth family member -- the woman's husband and the father of the girls -- was in serious but stable condition at St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury.

Sources identified the victims as Jennifer Hawke-Petit, a nurse at Cheshire Academy; William A. Petit Jr., a doctor at New Britain General Hospital; and their two daughters, Hayley and Michaela.

"This is a very sad day for us. This is a horrible tragedy, a somber Michael Milone, Cheshire's town manager, said at an afternoon press conference.Cheshire police Lt. Jay Markella said the invasion started in the early morning -- perhaps 3 a.m. At around 9 a.m., one of the suspects forced Hawke-Petit to drive to a local bank and withdraw money, sources said. Hawke-Petit was able to alert a bank employee that her family was being held hostage.

A Cheshire police officer drove to the home at 300 Sorghum Mill Drive and found the house in flames, state police said. Two suspects then attempted to flee in a car and crashed into the officer's cruiser. Two other Cheshire officers set up a roadblock and the suspects rammed those police cars as well. The suspects were then taken into custody, state police said. No officers were injured.

Police have not released the names of the two men in custody.
A source said William Petit had been badly beaten around the head, and stumbled out of the house while it was burning. He was able to make it to a neighbor's home to seek help.

Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, was a nurse at the Richmond Health Center at Cheshire Academy. She had previously been a nurse at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a Penn State graduate. The Petits were members of the Parents Leadership Committee at Miss Porter's School. She also has been involved with the Girl Scouts and Habitat for Humanity.

William Petit, 50, a prominent endocrinologist, is the medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, and president of the Hartford County Medical Association. He is a past president of the state chapter of the American Diabetes Association and was elected to the ADA Hall of Merit in 1994.

Hayley, 17, graduated in June from Miss Porter's School, where she was co-editor in chief of Chautauqua, the school's "journal of scholarly writing." She also was co-captain of the crew team and a member of the cross country and basketball teams. She was set to attend Dartmouth College, her father's alma mater, and planned to study medicine.Jennifer Petit was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis eight years ago, when Hayley was in fourth grade. The family became active in the Connecticut chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, and Hayley, inspired by an aunt's efforts to raise money for MS in North Carolina, formed a fundraising team called "Hayley's Hope." Over the past eight years she raised more than $54,000, and was honored at Miss Porter's this spring by Women Against MS, a grassroots advocacy group. Her younger sister Michaela was going to take over Hayley's legacy, and "add Michaela's Miracle to Hayley's Hope," according the school's website.
Burch Ford, head of school at Miss Porter's, called Hayley a wonderful human being, loved by her classmates and respected by everyone."She was a leader in every way, both publicly and privately," Ford said.

One of 81 young women in Miss Porter's Class of 2007, Hayley was very service oriented, very thoughtful, not someone who drew attention to herself, Ford said. Both parents were active supporters of the school and regulars at parent events and on the sidelines at their daughter's games and regattas."This would be terrible for anybody, but this is going to hit the community so hard," Ford said. "Even more so because the family was such a presence."

Bill Gavin, a neighbor of the Petits, said he heard firetrucks roaring down the street and saw the back of the house in flames. He said a firefighter used a ladder to climb to a 2nd floor window, but quickly retreated. He said all of the firefighters then got behind the firetruck and SWAT team members moved in.

Jennifer Ferraiolo at 290 Sorghum Mill Drive said she spoke to William Petit Jr. at 7:30 Sunday night and he appeared fine. "They are the nicest people," she said. "Obviously they were targeted. It's very hard to understand." "

What will the history textbooks say about our generation?
Will the black and white type critize wars and laws and politics in their oh so knowing hindsight?
Who will be printed in bold, added to a terms list, and planted in every child's mind...
Well at least until the next unit, the next test, the next class.

Are we proud of what we've done? Is it okay to settle for action before thought?
We demand a movement, but we have yet to recognize the problem, the source of the discontent.
How can you say its was the best choice to strike back when you hardly gave the nation a chance to catch its breath, stop running around in mass panic like so many chickens in a thunderstorm.
Why is a few buildings and a few thousand lives so important?
Cant you see those buildings are a result of an industrial revolution,
A revolution that destroyed families, slowly picked away at an already fragile ecosystem.
Oh but let's not forget those buildings symobolized the 90 hour work week.
A couple thousand lives? And how many do you think you so easily sweep away with every day, every hour, every second we spend in someone else's country fighting for the air, the dust particles, an illusion we know isnt there but we will not back down.
We are fighting for an idea that was disproved so long ago i doubt anyone knows what the argument is anymore.

But back at the homefront we are fighting even more important wars.
Wars that will mean nothing in a decade 
Because humanity runs headlong in a cirlce, not even bothering to consider they may have run a million miles but the scenery is still the same. You never went anywhere.
I dont understand how you can say someone's wrong and you are correct when
Right and wrong change every time the wind blows, every single second.
Remember not so long ago when it was okay to command another man, say he's not even worth being called a human being because he isnt from your soul crushing country? because he's not the same color as you?
Oh, but look now that is something we like to pretend just never happened because it is so wrong.
But it was right then, remember?
Or perhaps you remember someone saying that dying your hair would kill your baby?
No one thinks that anymore.

The world is so easily swayed..
A fact is not a fact, it is not concrete.
It is only someone, somewhere's opinion.
If someone decided to say the sky is green and got a million people to agree
The sky would be green.
Cant you see? It is not wrong to be gay, to live in a country where the laws are not your country's.
It is not wrong to be different.
It is not right either.
right and wrong do not exist, 
we all think and we all feel
therefor it is ALL real.

Why is okay to bend over backwards to ban an abortion
Why are you fighting for a cluster of cells that will never miss the life it never knew?
Why why why?
Just because the oven's on fire in the other room doesnt mean there still isnt a fire.
Why are you letting a thousand people die with every breath you take, people who have lives who have families you made an imprint on this world, however small? Why do you let them die but fight with your every cell for someone who isnt even a someone yet?

Your priortize your job, your stocks, your checkbook over your own child
And tsk unhappily over a war in some country you cant even see on the map,
Then drink your coffee and start you unending work week.
But its sunday already. Lets worship an idea you never bothered to question
Because you have no problem giving up your very soul, your existance to a book
Thats been changed and swayed by the opinions of a thousand men
Over the centuries but no one dares say "maybe thats not true, maybe i dont agree"
This is a nation of follow the leader,
Even if it means walking into the forest you know brought about the fall of a million nations before you
Because obviously this time around itll be different.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, but expecting different results each time.


What will they write in the textbooks?
Will they say we were insane,
Then do the same thing over again, just in a different context?
Dont you see the connection, dont you see the similiarities?
Our race is so unwilling to accept change, and in doing that conform into what they condemed five minutes before.