Their pain and grief will remain a part of them, but they will learn to live with it. She said she would tell the children of Uvalde that grief is individual and that their path forward will be their own - and to be gentle with themselves and kind to others. It was disheartening, she said, but also made her want to get out there and fight for things like mental health reform and gun control. Marie said the shooting in Uvalde brought so many feelings. “I know I went through a lot too, but in my brain, I was like, I’m not understanding how all these people are like clamoring for gifts.” “All that I could think about at the time was the one child in my sister’s class who survived,” she said. She got upset the day hundreds of those presents were passed out to children who lined up outside the local intermediate school to get a doll or a game, she said. She also felt “icky” about the thousands of gifts that poured into Newtown for all the children of Sandy Hook. They were also careful not to use phrases like “bullet points” around her, which she found silly. Her teachers would take her out of the classroom before conducting any emergency drills. Marie said adults around her were all well intentioned, but some of what they did after the tragedy bothered her. I heard them and my first thought was, ‘Oh, there’s totally a bear just banging on the walls of the school.'”
“Initially I thought it was a bear, the gunshots,” said Gay, now an 18-year-old college student. All the children who died were first graders. Marie Gay was a 9-year-old third grader at the Sandy Hook school when the gunman shot his way into the building and killed the 26 victims, including her little sister, Josephine. `I FEEL LIKE I’VE GROWN ALONGSIDE OF IT.’
Now on the cusp of adulthood, the survivors of Sandy Hook are telling their stories, some for the first time, about growing up as a mass shooting survivor to help the children in Texas, who return to school this week. It was so striking to the Sandy Hook survivors because of how similar it was to their tragedy. On May 24, a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. And now these kids are going to have to go through the same exact thing. “We had nine years for this to not happen again. “It’s been nine years since Sandy Hook,” said Ashley Hubner, 17, who was a second grader at the Newtown school when 20 children and six educators were killed on Dec. That grief can be unpredictable, and different for everyone.
That well-meaning adults will sometimes make the wrong decisions to protect you. They know it will be hard to say they are from Uvalde. Reliving their trauma every time there’s another mass shooting. Anger that these shootings continue to happen in America. There are struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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(AP) - The survivors who were able to walk out of Sandy Hook Elementary School nearly a decade ago want to share a message of hope with the children of Uvalde, Texas: You will learn how to live with your trauma, pain and grief. By DAVE COLLINS and PAT EATON-ROBB Associated Press
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