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A VICTORY FOR OUR KIDS

GRADUATING from high school is a major milestone – a farewell to one chapter and the heralding in of another.

But for a group of teenagers in Connecticut in the US the moment was marred by complex emotions. They might have been standing on the threshold of adulthood but there were others who didn’t get the chance.

Many of the kids they went to primary school with were wiped out in a shooting spree that’s gone down in infamy as one of America’s darkest days.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of December 2012 claimed the lives of 20 Grade 1 children and six staff members. It was committed by 20-year-old Adam Lanza – who took his own life as

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