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    Parkland Student Survivors Brace For 1st Anniversary Of School Shooting

    Since the shooting, young Parkland survivors have emerged as the driving force in calling for stricter gun laws in the U.S., through a series of marches, school walkouts and voter registration drives.
    by Brakkton Booker Feb 13, 2019 3 minutes
    Marjory Stoneman Douglas senior and March For Our Lives co-founder Jaclyn Corin sits at the March For Our Lives office in Florida. Though Corin admits that at times she feels emotionally drained from all the ups and downs of the past year, she describes it overall as "monumental."

    There will be no marching.

    There will be no school walkouts.

    Only a day of reflection and service and, perhaps most consequential, a time to grieve.

    That is how many of the Parkland, Fla., survivors turned activists plan to spend Thursday, the first anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

    Seventeen students and staff members were gunned down last Valentine's Day. Another 17 people were injured. The alleged shooter, a former student, is awaiting trial, and the state's attorney in Broward

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