Sandy Hook survivors will honor murdered classmates at their high school graduation
The IndependentThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Survivors of the Sandy Hook school shooting were interveiwed by GMA ahead of their high school graduation “Obviously, graduations are bittersweet because you don’t want to leave your best friends but for us there’s that whole extra layer of, ‘Oh, but our best friends aren’t even there,” Fischer said. “I’m excited for my next chapter but for graduation there will be something to honor the victims who aren’t able to be there — honoring them while celebrating our accomplishments is kind of a good balance because we don’t want to forget about who is not here with us.” A group of five students will honor the victims at their graduation from Newtown High School by distributing green and white ribbons for graduates to wear as a sign of solidarity. “I have been in and out of therapy almost my whole life, especially after the shooting, and it’s really just helped me cope and helped me learn about myself, so I want to try and pay that forward and help people who have gone through gun violence, or even people who haven’t, who are just struggling in their daily life.” Ehrens added that she plans to attend Roger Williams University in Rhode Island to study pre-law to “either stop this from happening to anyone else or help people who are going through the same thing we did, and just make sure that they know they are not alone,” she told News Times. open image in gallery People are comforted near Sandy Hook Elementary School, Dec. 14, 2012 in Newtown, Conn “For the past 10 or 11 years that it’s been since in Sandy Hook, we’ve grown so much and we do so much work to fight for and for other people because we don’t want other people’s lives to get robbed like theirs did,” said Fischer, who plans to attend Hamilton College as a pre-law and justice studies major.
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