Day In The Life
December 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A National Conversation on How We Can Prevent Gun Deaths and Injuries
Personal Stories & Tributes
Story: Children and A Loaded Gun
In the 1960′s I was a teacher at a school in Prince Georges County, Maryland. One Election Day when school was out, children from the neighborhood gathered at the home of one of the youngsters and they were playing in the basement without adult supervision. One child produced a handgun and the children handed it [...]
Tribute to Draysean Earl
May 5th 2009: my 13-year-old son, Draysean, was shot in his head. It was at the end of the school year, right before graduation, and my son and some friends took it upon themselves to have a Jr. High School “ditch day”. So my son was sitting with a group of Jr. High School kids [...]
Tribute to Judith Foglesong Kangilaski
My sister was murdered in 1991. The gunman who killed her in her own home was never apprehended. She never had the opportunity to meet her five grandchildren and they never knew the talented woman who could have taught them so much. Her younger daughter died of leukemia three years ago on the night before [...]
Tribute to VanDaryl LeBron Rivers
Dream deferred. You had so many plans, gone but not forgotten. You did not realize how many people loved you. We will never forget you and I hope that we can get peace from this terrible tragedy. Your Grandmother who nurtured you from age 3. I still cry for you. May God help me and [...]
Tribute to Gilbert Terry
My father died at 49. He never knew six of his seven grandchildren. He never knew his eldest child completed four college degrees and became an ordained minister. He never knew he had four great-grandchildren. So much he never knew when he was shot and killed two days after his 49th birthday. He never visited [...]
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