Graduating from high school is a major milestone – a farewell to one chapter and the heralding in of another. But for a group of teenagers in Connecticut in the US the moment was marred by complex emotions. They might have been standing on the threshold of adulthood but there were others who didn’t get the chance. Many of the kids they went to primary school with were wiped out in a shooting spree that’s gone down in infamy as one of America’s darkest days.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2024 10:45 UTC