CABOT, Pennsylvania ‒ Michael Drane held his hand over his head and squinted to see past the billowing mass of an American flag hung from a fire ladder.
The 66-year-old saw two snipers positioned with binoculars atop the Cabot Methodist Church that had once been his sons' grade school. Below them were dozens of local and regional firefighters and law enforcement.
Friday, the church was a scene of mourning after the nation’s most recent act of political violence, which placed Butler...