The holidays are always hardest for me, John.

My sweet little Daniel's absence is just that much more evident. I look at his empty chair at the kitchen table and I still can't wrap my head around the fact that he's never coming back.

It seems like just yesterday and also a thousand years ago that Jackie and I were walking through the Christmas tree farm with our three beautiful children – Daniel, Natalie and James. Afterward, we baked holiday cookies – Daniel hid a gummy bear as a "special surprise" in each ball of cookie dough.

Just five days later, he was gone forever – murdered in his first-grade classroom.

I don't want any other parent to feel this unrelenting pain – to face the holidays with only memories of their child to cling to. That's why I've dedicated my life to this work, even though it means reliving the nightmare of Daniel's murder every day.

This mission is who I am now, and I know we have to do more, John. But with just 11 hours left to reach our critical year-end match goal, we're still short. So please, will you help me by donating now, before this match expires, to protect more children from gun violence?

Please donate $10, or as much as you can, to Sandy Hook Promise before midnight. Your tax-deductible gift will go twice as far toward protecting more children from gun violence in 2020.

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This time of year is so difficult for me because painful reminders of when I lost my sweet little Daniel are everywhere. But it also makes me reflect on his kind and compassionate spirit.

So I hope it's an appropriate time to ask for some extra help so that we can protect more children like Daniel from gun violence – and protect more families from spending holidays without their loved ones.

I appreciate anything you can give to help me do that, and to help me honor Daniel's too-short life today.

Mark Barden (Daniel's father)



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