Sandy Hook survivors graduate amidst heartache

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suspects have been identified in Christopher's killings. Well, graduations are a time for celebrating your accomplishments and keeping an eye out for the future. While that sentiment rings true for students at Connecticut's Newtown High School, a school there, it is also a moment of heartache and sadness for this year's graduating class. So many of them survivors of one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. Chris Demayo takes a closer look at how they're honoring their fallen classmates memories and ramping up their calls for gun reform. Most kids look forward to graduating from high school a time when they feel they can spread their wings and fly. Since you're in kindergarten, you just can't wait to graduate. The excitement is plentiful in Connecticut, where Newtown High School's Class of 2024 is graduating Wednesday. But behind the pomp and circumstance is a tragic past. Many seniors will carry for a lifetime. We can't forget about that. There is a whole chunk of our class missing and so going into graduation, we all have very mixed emotions. Among the more than 300 graduates are survivors of the Sandy hook Elementary School shooting, where a gunman killed 21st graders and six teachers back in December of 2012. The shooter actually came into my classroom, so I had to, like, watch all my friends and teachers get killed, and I had to run for my life at six years old, and I know that was a really, like, traumatizing for me victims will be honored during the graduation ceremony as their surviving classmates still grapple with the pain. I can't really remember many times before the shooting, so in that sense, it really did take over those really innocent times, and it really forced us to grow up so fast when we didn't need to. In the years since the tragedy, students have been advocating for an end to gun violence. We're fighting for change, and we're really not going to stop until we get it. Many are now eyeing future careers in law or politics, and say they have plans to continue calling for firearm reform that these children, educators didn't die for nothing. Chris DiMeo, Fox News. Meanwhile, in parkland, Florida, the demolition of a building that was the site of a mass shooting will start tomorrow. In February of 2018, 17 students and staff members were kil
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Channel: FOX 13 Seattle
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Keywords: News, youth-violence, national-news, crime-publicsafety, education
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Length: 2min 16sec (136 seconds)
Published: Wed Jun 12 2024
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