The school shooting survivors recall how their refusal to be portrayed as ‘sobbing victims’ inspired March For Our Lives
On Valentine’s Day, 17-year-old Jaclyn Corin, student president of her year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, was delivering carnations to raise prom funds. Then the shooting started. As a former student went on a rampage that left 17 people dead, Corin took refuge in a classroom with other terrified pupils. Down the corridor, Delaney Tarr, also 17, was hiding in a cupboard with friends from her journalism class. Over the next few weeks, Corin and Tarr, alongside other Parkland students, turned a life-changing tragedy into March For Our Lives, one of the biggest youth protests in the US since the Vietnam war.
Delaney Tarr Everyone involved in March For Our Lives mobilised as a way of processing our grief. It was pretty much the only thing we felt we could do in those moments after the shooting. That same night I was scheduling interviews with other students at the vigil the next day, because as a student journalist it was what I knew I could contribute.
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