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Yearbook of the Fallen, That Memorializes Students Who Were Murdered in School Shootings Last Year Yearbook of the Fallen IN MEMORY OF STUDENTS KILLED BY GUN VIOLENCE IN HIGH SCHOOLS IN 2018 Table of Contents Thank You............................................................................3 Foreword...............................................................................4 Marshall County High School....................................... 5 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...................6 Huffman High School.......................................................7 Great Mills High School...................................................8 Santa Fe High School........................................................9 Butler High School............................................................10 Central High School..........................................................11 Letters of Support..............................................................12 Impact of Gun Violence...................................................17 Legislative Solutions.........................................................23 Who to Contact..................................................................29 Our Daily Losses................................................................32 Healing Prayers .................................................................33 About Us...............................................................................35 צער - Sorrow תודה רבה Our sincerest thanks and profound appreciation to: Our parents, who lovingly raised us in the Jewish tradition and taught us that it is our obligation to pursue justice, and to speak-out against wrong-doing. Our confirmation class teachers, Rabbi Warren Stone, Rabbi Mark Levine, and Cantor Lindsay Kanter, who taught us to see the world through Jewish eyes. Kathy Magenheim, Temple Emanuel Religious School Administrator, who worked tirelessly to make sure the yearbook was accurate, widely publicized, and that our advocacy efforts were well organized. Senators Benjamin Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Congressman Jamie Raskin, our inspiring representatives in Congress, whose letters of support gave us the confidence that our voices matter. Dr. Daniel Webster, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, who contributed the analysis of the effects of gun violence on youth. His sobering research is a compelling call-to-action. Rick Sauers, Chairman and CEO, The Sauers Group, Inc., of Stone Mountain, Georgia, whose generosity brought the yearbook into print and allowed us to distribute it more widely than we had originally hoped. (www.sauersgroup.com) Ross E. Heller and Anne Daly Heller, owners of CustomNEWS, Inc. and USAE weekly newspaper, of Bethesda, Maryland, whose generous financial support and emotional encouragement enabled us to fully realize our vision for this project. Copyright© 2019 Temple Emanuel Kensington, Maryland 3 Foreward We are students in the confirmation class of Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland. As Jews, we have many values. One of the most crucial values is lo ta'amod al dam re’echa, which means, “do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.” At the moment, we feel it is our duty to intervene on the issue of gun violence in our schools. School is a place where we spend much of our time, but unfortunately, we feel scared and unsafe when we’re there. Rather than sit back passively, we’ve decided to do something about the problem. We are creating a yearbook, called Yearbook of the Fallen, that memorializes students who were murdered in school shootings last year. We have sent copies to you and your colleagues in Congress, with hopes that it will inspire you to take action in passing federal laws on gun trafficking, removing restrictions on the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), implementing universal background checks, and banning high capacity magazines. We greatly appreciate your support throughout this process and invite you to follow our campaign on Instagram at @yearbookofthefallen, and on Twitter at @yearbookof. Thank You, Temple Emanuel Confirmation Class, 2018-2019 יזכור - Remember 4 Marshall County High School Benton, KY Bailey Holt, 15 Preston Ryan Cope, 15 “Every single one of these parents have said all they want is change. We can’t continue to watch these massacres occur day after day and sit idly by while no one intervenes to save the lives of our current and future students and teachers." -Sheila Hiestand, lawyer for the family of Bailey Holt 5 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Parkland, FL Alyssa Alhadeff, 14 Martin Duque, 14 Nicholas Dworet, 17 Jaime Guttenberg, 14 Luke Hoyer, 15 Cara Loughran, 14 Gina Montalto, 14 Joaquin Oliver, 17 Alaina Petty, 14 Meadow Pollack, 18 Helena Ramsay, 17 Alex Schachter, 14 Carmen Schentrup, 16 Peter Wang, 15 6 Great Mills High School Lexington, MD Jaelynn Willey, 16 Student: “There’s been a shooting here. Please come now.” 911: "What is the problem?" Student: “There’s a school shooting. Please...” 911: “Where? Where?” Student: “Here at Great Mills High School." - St. Mary’s County sheriff’s office, phone call recording 7 Huffman High School Birmingham, AL Courtlin Arrington, 17 "Our hearts are heavy." - Randall Woodfin, Mayor of Birmingham 8 Santa Fe High School Santa Fe, TX Jared Conard Black, 17 Shana Fisher, 16 Aaron Kyle McLeod, 15 Angelique Ramirez, 15 Christian Riley Garcia, 15 Sabika Sheikh, 17 Christopher Stone, 17 Kimberly Vaughan, 14 9 Butler High School Matthews, NC Bobby McKeithen, 16 "Anytime there is a loss of a child, we have a moral obligation to step up to the plate and make a change." -Tera Long, Community Advocate 10 Central High School Providence, RI William Parsons, 15 "He was quiet in his own way, but he had a joking manner about him. He was a great, loving kid. I just cut the kid’s hair on Monday, complimenting him about how good he looks, his wave, and him being 15 years old and how he dresses so well and takes care of himself. And this happens to him two days into the school year. It’s sad." - William's uncle, Treze Parsons 11 Letters of Support Cardin 12 13 Representative Raskin 14 On February 14th, 2018, my daughter Jaime and sixteen others were murdered in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School by a teenage boy with an AR 15. Because of what happened to my daughter, I have dedicated my life to fighting for sensible gun safety. I have been joined by parents from Parkland, Florida and throughout this country who have suffered the worst kind of loss but who have not stopped fighting for safety and security. We have seen our amazing kids rise up and fight for their lives. In their effort to live free from gun violence, they created a national movement, March for Our Lives, that harnesses the power of young people across the country to fight for sensible gun violence prevention policies. I started Orange Ribbons for Jaime to honor my daughter’s life and to deal with the reasons it was cut short. I am determined to make the orange ribbon the symbol of the gun safety movement. We now see politicians across the country, and in the current presidential campaign, wearing orange ribbons and talking seriously about gun safety. Thank you for memorializing the high school students who were killed by gun violence last year. The Yearbook of the Fallen will ensure they will never be forgotten. My daughter will forever be fourteen. She will not graduate from high school, learn to drive, go to a prom, look at colleges, or have a first boyfriend. Your work to make sure that she will not be forgotten is something that I will always remember. Fred Guttenberg, father of Jamie Guttenberg, who was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting 15 16 Impact of Gun Violence on America’s Youth Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH Bloomberg Professor of American Health in Violence Prevention Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD This book honors teens who lost their lives in shootings at their schools during 2018. Every student should be safe from gun violence in their schools. But, if we view gun violence as only keeping youth safe from shootings at their school, we will have missed the big picture of how gun violence impacts the safety and well-being of our youth. Compared with our homes and communities, schools are a safe-haven from gun violence. Of all fatal shootings of school-age children, just over 1 percent occurred on school grounds. In 2017, there were 2,220 high-school age (14-18 years) youth in the United States killed by gunfire, 10.6 deaths for every 100,000 teens in that age group. By comparison, law enforcement officers were shot and killed in the line of duty at a rate of 4.4 per 100,000 officers in 2017 (Figure 1). Gunfire was the leading cause of death for high-school age youth in 2017, ahead of deaths from motor vehicle crashes and drug overdoses.2 Deaths to teens from motor vehicle crashes have declined dramatically since 2002. In contrast, the number of teens killed in shootings has risen sharply in recent years (Figure 2). Firearm-related deaths among high-school age youth have been increasing for suicides as well as for homicides underscoring the growing confluence of troubled teen’s access to firearms (Figure 3). 17 In addition to fatal shootings, there were an estimated 10,685 youth ages 14-18 years in the U.S. who were treated in hospitals for nonfatal gunshot wounds. Yet firearm violence impacts many more youths than those who are shot. A 2008 national survey found that 22 percent of U.S. teens ages 14-17 reported that they had witnessed
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