We often hear from people who’ve been through the kinds of tragedies we spend our lives trying to prevent and helping others prepare for. These stories reinforce our mission even as they break our hearts over and over again. We share them with Love and Hope.
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When seven-year-old Reichen Posey escaped the shooting at Sandy Hook after seeing his teacher and classmates shot in his first-grade classroom, he didn’t fully act out of instinct. When his mother (and Mission Direction for The “I Love U Guys” Foundation) Carly asked him later why he ran the way he did, actually taking a non-direct route to the safety of a nearby firehouse, he simply said it was because that was what they had practiced in fire drills. He knew what to do, and it saved his life.
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Do you remember where you were when the attack at Columbine High School happened? Most people we talk to do. With that as a vivid backdrop, the shooting at Virginia Tech was when everything changed for our featured stakeholder this quarter, Dr. Jaclyn (Jackie) Schildkraut.
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