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have been through, what the folks in arizona have been through and what so many american s do go through. thank you for sharing some of how you have tried to cope with it. todd and aaron thomas, the sons of 58-year-old ed thomas who was shot on june 24th, 2009. guys, thanks very much for being with us. we appreciate it. thank you. thanks for having us. one year ago today that mondster earthquake struck hait killing 200,000 people. daily life is still a struggle. 1.2 million people stuck in tent cities still a year later. they re battling poverty, crime, and a disease that has claimed thousands who managed to survive the quake. cnn s gary tuchman reports. it s not unusual to see people bathing or washing their clothes in rivers and creeks in haiti but using this particular body of water is not recommended. and it all has to do with the collkocoloradkocoloradkol chole.
the 58-year-old thomas was helping players in the high school weight room when he was shot in the head, these chest and knee. mark becker was sentenced to life in prison for his crime. thomas sons todd and aaron join me now to share how they dealt with the tragedy. thanks for coming back. we just had a problem with the line you guys are coming in on, the broadband line. hopefully we can talk to you now. todd, i was asking you, obviously the reference is to the tragedy we have just seen in arizona. how in the overlap is interesting in that your father was mindsing his own business, doing what he always does, pillar of the community, and somebody shoots him dead. how do you get passed this, how have you coped with it in the last year? what do you do to try and make things better and make things seem more useful than the senseless loss of your father? yeah. you know, you don t ever really fully get over it you just try to move forward and something we ve done is really tried to focus
players in the high school weight room when he was shot in the head, chest and knee. beckner was sentenced to life in prison for his crime. his sons join me now from iowa to share how they have dealt with this tragedy. todd and aaron, thank you for being with us. they re joining us via skype. similarities to the arizona situation is the senselessness of somebody like your father doing his work, his consistent work that he had been doing for a long time. and seemingly unprovoked brutal murder. how do you even begin to deal with this? how do you begin to get past your initial shock and your initial grief? sorry about that. i guess we didn t hear. we lost you. how the you get passed your initial shock, your initial grief in a situation like this?
not about winning and losing but making boys into men and see that continue is important to both todd and i. todd, when you think back, look at where the folks are who are suffering, the victims, the families of the victims, those who are died, those who are still healing. at what point does that shock, at what point for you did that shock become something else, this decision to be able to move on and to say how do we preserve your father s memory? yeah. you know, i don t know. like i said, i don t know if you ever get over the shock. people always say, well, you will get back to normal soon. it s never really normal again. it s a new normal. for everybody, it s different. you know, i know personally i m still coping with the tragedy that took place back in june of last year. we just try to focus on the positive aspect of his life and, like aaron said, just try to continue what he stood for and what he thought and go forward. it is unthinkable what you