'26 acts of kindness,' a reaction to Newtown shooting, goes viral
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NEW YORK (AP) — A new movement has taken off to honor the 26 people killed at a school in Newtown, Conn.
The campaign was sparked from a question NBC News correspondent Ann Curry asked herself after Friday's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School: "What can I do?"
The answer she arrived at was performing 26 acts of kindness. On Sunday, she shared that suggestion on social media, inviting everyone to join her.
By Wednesday, the hashtag #26acts was trending on Twitter and at last check a 26 Acts of Kindness Facebook page had exceeded 50,000 likes.
The social media sites describe acts of kindness directed toward members of the Newtown community, as well as to others across the nation and even globally.
Curry wrote on the NBC News website that the movement is a way to "help heal us all."
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
To all of you that are complaining about it.
I wonder if you had a #26 act of kindness happen to you. I bet if you do it will make you feel good. Isn't that the point here.Â
Really? Come on... enjoy that it's being done.Â
I'm doing it, and it feels great.Â
 @Dava ~ My gosh, Dava... who'd be nasty enough to complain about something like this..?  I get the impression that most people (me included) just want to see it expanded and continued, so it (hopefully!) becomes "2nd nature" to us.  Â
This is the nicest "grassroots" thing I've seen in a long time..! Â I'm gonna get in on this, too..! Â :-)
Several people have posted here with regard to the many, many other victims of senseless murders that have happened / are happening, all around our country and in the world... the feeling is that all of those victims are equally deserving of being remembered... Â I agree... Â Â
The Sandy Hook shootings drove the issue into the instant national spotlight, primarily because of the very young ages of 20 of the victims, and the setting in which they died... a setting that should have been a safe place for these little kids - AND for their teachers. Â Â . Â Â
But we need to remember ALL of those who have died or been injured, or who have lost loved ones, at the hands of mentally unstable people - or, in some cases, by someone who was just plan e-v-i-l. Â Â
Proclaiming Sunday as the day to do 26 acts of kindness in memory of the Sandy Hook victims is a wonderful thing... and it has no doubt drawn much attention to this issue. Â Â However, once that day is observed, if we ALL did even ONE act of kindness EACH DAY in memory of all those who suffered because of senseless violence, we would take a very positive and lasting step towards healing our society and our country. Â
Even small acts of kindness count, people..! Â :-)Â
Why is victim #27 being excluded here? She may have been the killer's Mom but she surely didn't deserve to be murdered. The "media" is always the first to scream discrimination when it comes to others, but they sure in hell are guilty of it here.
There should be MANY more acts of kindness! What about the 20 children and the teacher that got knifed in China the same morning of the school shooting?? And the people from the Clackamas Town Center, and everywhere else that we are not hearing about cuz it didn't make the headlines? There was also a jumper that drove his car to the top of the Lewis and Clark Bridge between Rainier, OR and Longview, WA that took his own life, what about his family? And there was another man that was murdered a few days ago in St. Helens, OR... and these things never make it widely publicized. Yet all of these peoples families deserve their remembrances also!!
And everywhere else there are people being murdered every day, what about them and their families?? We should be doing ACTS OF KINDNESS all day EVERY DAY!!!
Nice.
Until I know more, I feel that the mother should be included in the number of lost-27 total. She didn't deserve to die.
 @marinerfan I fel that the people at Clackamas Town Center should be included as well, so 29. I feel  also that more attention towards the mentally ill in all of our communities in acknowledgement of the two mentally ill shooters run amok with no intervention might help prevent another of these tragedies from occurring.
Sunday sounds like it's going to be a very good day. I'm in.
 @Lips I will be doing my 18th act of kindness #26Acts tomorrow.. Since I am going on holidays and will be taking Amtrak.. I have made up 3 loaves of bread into PBJ sandwiches, and stuffed the bags with a apple, some potato crisps, and a coupon for a free cookie, which I will be handing out to those I see while I am on my way to Union Station
 @quackerbacker  @Lips hugs to you!
 @quackerbacker That's awesome! How considerate. =)
This one act of kindness, by someone who wasn't on TV seeking attention, has gotten even more likes, and is quite a powerful read: https://www.facebook.com/michael.cooper.3367174/posts/10200123424157994
 @starshadow Beautiful!!!