John,

On Dec. 14, 2012, my 8-year-old son, Jake, thought he heard metal chairs crashing over the intercom at Sandy Hook Elementary.

One day, he'll process that the sound he heard was actually gunfire - the sound of his baby brother and best friend, Dylan, being murdered in his first-grade classroom.

I thought I knew what pain looked like before that horrific day. Now when I think about pain, the first image that comes to mind is Jake's face when his dad told him Dylan had been killed. He just howled. I'd never heard a child make that kind of noise before.

I don't want another child to have to listen as their sibling is shot to death. I don't want another child to find out their sibling is gone forever.

But right now, we're still $741,337 short of what we need to ramp up our work in 2020 to protect more children from gun violence. If we miss this goal, we might not be able to work fast enough to prevent the next school shooting. I cannot bear the thought of another sister or brother like Jake feeling like we failed them. So please, can I count on you to donate right now to help us close in on the gap?

Please rush $10, or as much as you can spare, to Sandy Hook Promise right now. Protecting more children from gun violence in 2020 depends on your immediate donation before our critical Friday deadline.

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I know Jake wonders if he could have saved Dylan. He once told me he wanted to be an inventor. When I asked what he would invent, he immediately answered, "A time machine, so I can go back and change things so they don't happen."

No child should ever have to agonize over what they could have done differently so their baby brother would still be alive. No parent should ever have to experience the devastating loss of their child. That's why I'll never give up on my mission to build a legacy for my beautiful butterfly Dylan by protecting other children like my surviving son, my hero Jake, from gun violence.

And I'm so, so grateful to have you by my side in that work.

With love,

Nicole Hockley (Dylan's mom)


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