i ve seen that we can stop these things. you hear about a lockdown, you hear about any kind of reports of an active shooter, it is chilling. and then i just have to pivot to all the more need for us to do it, we have a model that works. we ve got to keep going. scarlett lewis is also making change through the choose love movement she founded in honor of her son jesse. i realize that what happened to jesse was 100% preventable. and that it was literally my responsibility to make sure that our kids are safe. thank you very much senator senator murphy says fighting for change for the sandy hook families is his life mission. i m just emotionally, psychologically connected to these families. invested in this movement. in a way that i ve never been connected or invested in
it was scary to think about who would think like this. a texas jury awarded lewis and jesse s father $43 million. barden and hockley were part of another trial. all of our abilities to hang on to daniel s memory has been tarnished with toxic lies. i got sent pictures of dead kids because i was told as a crisis actor i didn t know what dead kids looked like. at the end of this trial, the families were awarded more than $1 billion. $120 million, to plaintiff david wheeler, $55 million. fran keen wheeler. nicole hockley.
first holidays were really, really difficult. i thought about jessie s last message to his older brother, and he had left him this little note that jt had found when he was 12 years old. on his desk, it said, have a lot of fun. that s what we try to do before jesse died. that s also how we tried to honor him, even right after he died. we were celebrating his life. rather than mourning his death. we tried to focus on celebrating the life that he had, and who he was. to honor his legacy. but you will be spending the rest of your life, every single day, honoring your child s legacy. gloria and javier, i hope that it gives you some small comfort to see scarlet and see that she has been able to move
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and i thought, oh gosh. this is not good. scarlett lewis was also there. searching for her six-year-old son jesse. i remember being told repeatedly. if you can t find your child, go into the back room. put his name down on the list. i m, like i m not going to put my child s name down on the list. i m just going to find him. i tried to go up the school. they wouldn t let me. it was surreal. it was frightening. it was just hard to process. at that point, the governor brought everybody into a room in the firehouse. and that is when we got the news. he said that if we were still in that room, that our loved ones weren t coming back. it was chaos. there was whaling.