Marjory Stoneman Douglas Survivors Mark 6 Months Since the Parkland Shooting

08.14.18
Marjory Stoneman Douglas Survivors Mark 6 Months Since the Parkland Shooting (Seventeen lives were lost and countless others changed 6 months ago, the day of a tragic massacre at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida. Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
Six months ago today, on Valentine's Day, is when the community of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida -- and the nation -- changed forever when a mass shooter took the lives of 17 students and teachers. https://twitter.com/ParklandTalk/status/1029216307122712576 Immediately, impassioned leaders emerged from MSD, re-energizing the national conversation around gun violence and gun laws, using their pain and loss to try to spark change. Some have even become household names. Their movement, often called #NeverAgain, held the huge March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. and dozens of other cities around the country and world in March, and then took their messages on the road this summer in the Road to Change bus tour. The movement's focus now is on registering young people to vote and then getting them to the polls in the hopes of changing government enough to change gun laws. Tomorrow a new school year starts at MSD. Today, here's what some of the Parkland survivors are saying on social media to mark the six month anniversary of the day that shattered, and changed, their lives. Some are sharing how haunted they are by what happened that day, with the 17 lost on their minds and in their hearts. https://twitter.com/sighnatasha/status/1029374185821425665 https://twitter.com/morganw_44/status/1029377618896924672 https://twitter.com/cswaggyway/status/1029227745958612993 https://twitter.com/delaneytarr/status/1029354947245207558 https://twitter.com/cameron_kasky/status/1029359167142879233 https://twitter.com/lauren_hoggs/status/1029366770782666753 https://twitter.com/gabbibenzaken/status/1029380665442226176 https://twitter.com/carlysage001/status/1029360170495868929
There's some gratitude amid the mourning. https://twitter.com/jaackie33/status/1029384547228635137 Others are posting in honor of the ones they lost -- a friend, a coach, a daughter. https://twitter.com/jillianhalloran/status/1029379440705503232 https://twitter.com/17roseV/status/1029365425048616960 https://twitter.com/tyra_hemans/status/1029374859531444227 https://twitter.com/AprilSchentrup/status/1029156879556063232
https://twitter.com/fred_guttenberg/status/1029316749747994626 And others are posting today about both remembrance and effecting change. https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1029378675563741184 https://twitter.com/MattxRed/status/1029371661248851968
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