To the Editor:

My wife Laura Feinstein is a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

She was there on 12/14. We also live in Sandy Hook. My wife and some of her colleagues appeared last week in a piece that aired on CBS This Morning highlighting their efforts to pass sensible gun laws to reduce the chances that some other town will endure the agony of 12/14.

However, with all that has been written and said about the tragedy, I wanted your readers to know the unwritten story about how these women continue to put the children above all else (and I'm not talking about during the shooting, which was well publicized) returning only days after the massacre to foreign classrooms in shock. Their students, colleagues and friends dead and newly buried. They suffer PTSD and all manner of emotional injury, making every day a challenge, yet they are largely forgotten. No real support except each other; no charitable trusts to help give them the time to find peace and no meaningful help on how to get there. They experienced what soldiers in the battlefield experience except they were untrained to deal with it and sadly have been left to fend for themselves and each other, again.

The public wants to move on, while these women, particularly the ones like Laura who still teach at "Sandy Hook Elementary" don't have that option. That's the story that nobody hears or talks about and the story nobody it seems is even aware of.

From my very personal front row seat it's time our town, our state and our nation help these hero's of 12/14.

That begins by not forgetting they are still in the middle of this tragedy every day and ends with real help, support and assistance.

These are proud independent educators who are too respectful of those lost to speak up or bring attention to their own plight and instead focus whatever attention they garner on the fight to not let this happen to someone else.

I'm proud of Laura and her colleagues, for what they did on 12/14 and what they have done every single day since.

Thank you.

Steven D. Feinstein, Esq.

Feinstein & Naishtut, LLP

211 South Ridge Street, Rye Brook, New York             December 8, 2014