Just before a photography snapped a shot of terrified children holding on to each other in hopes of making it out together, they experienced an event most people never will never come close to. As they sat in the elementary school class near the end of December, awaiting the joyous holiday break they would spend with their families they began to hear gun shot after gun shot. They tucked away in the lock down they always thought would just be a drill and close their eyes not able to believe this was happening. They longed for their mothers and fathers and attempted to wrap their small brains around what could possibly be going on.
The children walked in a state of confusment and utter distress. Behind them, in the school they attended everyday, lay fellow students who lost their lives in that moment. This photo show's us the smallest bit of their emotion through their tears and distraught looks and the rush you can see in their step. Outside the rectangle this photo encompassed lays pure chaos; media surrounding the event, every police car that could reach the school and worried parents attempting to find their child who they hoped had made it outside of the school that had become a death trap.
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