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'We Live With It Every Day': Parkland Community Marks One Year Since Massacre

Following a year of outraged activism, some survivors went silent Thursday. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School invited students to participate in community service projects.

At 2:21 p.m. on Feb. 14, 2017, the first gunshots began to reverberate through the hallways of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leaving 14 students and three educators dead; 17 others were wounded.

One year later at 10:17 a.m., silence descended on Florida's schools.

Broward County Public Schools Superintendent the time was chosen because most students would be in class and for the symbolism of

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