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No! Shout their names Let high winds carry them to all corners of the world Nicholas Dworet Gina Montalto Jamie Guttenberg Alyssa Alhadeff Joaquin Oliver Meadow Pollack Martin Duque Luke Hoyer Alex Schachter Peter **** Alaina Petty Helena Ramsey Cara Loughran Carmen Schentrup Scholars, athletes, musicians, community volunteers, Chris Hixon Aaron Feis Scott Beigel Teachers, mentors, leaders All seventeen caring, strong, determined, thoughtful inspirations Shout their names Let high winds carry them Honor their memory Show their young vibrant faces Look! Really look! Look in their eyes Can you not see their hopes? hopes that fell and crumpled with their limp bodies, destroyed in mere seconds Can you not see their dreams? dreams shattered, turned to nightmares? destroyed in mere seconds Can you not see their plans? Plans for their future, a future wrenched from them destroyed in mere seconds, Mere seconds of violence That’s all it took Congress persons, Members of NRA, Gun sellers are your children, grandchildren, those you care about shielded from this same fate? Or will it take their demise before you can see? Don’t you know that, in truth, we are all the same family? The children who died are your children! The teachers who died are your brothers! Their blood courses through your body, too it courses through all of us.
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Mar 3, 2018
Mar 3, 2018 at 7:09 PM UTC
Whisper Their Names
No! Shout their names Let high winds carry them to all corners of the world Nicholas Dworet Gina Montalto Jamie Guttenberg Alyssa Alhadeff Joaquin Oliver Meadow Pollack Martin Duque Luke Hoyer Alex Schachter Peter **** Alaina Petty Helena Ramsey Cara Loughran Carmen Schentrup Scholars, athletes, musicians, community volunteers, Chris Hixon Aaron Feis Scott Beigel Teachers, mentors, leaders All seventeen caring, strong, determined, thoughtful inspirations Shout their names Let high winds carry them Honor their memory Show their young vibrant faces Look! Really look! Look in their eyes Can you not see their hopes? hopes that fell and crumpled with their limp bodies, destroyed in mere seconds Can you not see their dreams? dreams shattered, turned to nightmares? destroyed in mere seconds Can you not see their plans? Plans for their future, a future wrenched from them destroyed in mere seconds, Mere seconds of violence That’s all it took Congress persons, Members of NRA, Gun sellers are your children, grandchildren, those you care about shielded from this same fate? Or will it take their demise before you can see? Don’t you know that, in truth, we are all the same family? The children who died are your children! The teachers who died are your brothers! Their blood courses through your body, too it courses through all of us.
Regardless of where your opinion falls on the spectrum of gun control, I think everyone agrees something needs to change so that innocent lives are no longer annihilated! It's something we need to come together on. No one entity can solve the problem of violence in our country.
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Mar 3, 2018
Mar 3, 2018 at 7:09 PM UTC
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