Five Sandy Hook Survivors Graduate High School: A Bittersweet Milestone for Emma and Grace

Newtown, Connecticut United States of America
Emma Ehrens and Grace Fischer are among the graduating seniors.
Emma plans to study political science and law, becoming a civil rights lawyer or politician.
Five survivors of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to graduate high school on June 12, 2024.
Five Sandy Hook Survivors Graduate High School: A Bittersweet Milestone for Emma and Grace

Sandy Hook Survivors Graduate High School: A Bittersweet Milestone

On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, five survivors of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut will graduate from high school. This milestone comes with a mix of emotions as they remember their lost classmates who were taken away from them during the tragic event that occurred over a decade ago.

Emma Ehrens and Grace Fischer are among the graduating seniors. Emma survived the shooting and plans to study political science and law, becoming a civil rights lawyer or politician. Grace describes graduation as a



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    • Lilly Wasilnak plans to speak out against gun violence in college.
    • Emma Ehrens survived the shooting and plans to study political science and law, becoming a civil rights lawyer or politician.
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    • ] Twenty first grade students and six educators were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14, 2012.[
    • Twenty students and friends were taken violently in the Sandy Hook shooting.
    • Approximately 60 Sandy Hook survivors are graduating.
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    • Emma was six years old when the gunman entered her classroom and shot her friends and teachers. She led some students out of the school to safety.
    • Grace hid with her friends during the shooting and learned later that one of them, Jessica Rekos, had died. She plans to attend Hamilton College and focus on law and justice in honor of her lost classmates.
    • Newtown High School graduates will wear ribbons with ‘Forever In Our Hearts’ to remember the victims.
    • Sandy Hook survivors Emma and Grace are part of the Junior Newtown Action Alliance, sharing their stories and campaigning for gun violence prevention. They have met with national leaders and other school shooting survivors.
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    • Five Sandy Hook High School survivors are graduating from Newtown High School on Wednesday, 11 and a half years after the shooting.
    • Grace Fischer describes graduation as a ‘bittersweet moment’.
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    • Matt Holden is studying political science at George Washington University and wants to be a politician advocating for more gun laws.
    • Holden is reminded of empty desks and missing classmates.
    • Students were informed that they would not be seeing their friends again after the shooting.
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    • Approximately 60 Sandy Hook survivors are graduating.
    • Twenty students and friends were taken violently in the Sandy Hook shooting.
    • Survivors continue to carry an emotional burden as they start their next chapter.
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