Hey there.
Today we're bringing you an episode from our archives.
We thought this conversation felt more urgent than ever after the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
This episode is about the school shooting generation, the first wave of school shooting survivors who are now adults and have grown up watching these types of mass casualty events happen over and over again.
This episode is hosted by my former co host, Duarte Geraldino.
This is in conversation from Apple News Today.
I'm Duarte Geraldino.
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When Marin Kogan was in the sixth grade, she went out one night to play mini golf with friends next door.
The kids, two grades older, were attending the eighth grade dance.
We had just started playing and we heard what sounded like a bunch of balloons popping.
Maren and her friends didn't think much of the sound.
That isn't, until they saw a bunch of 8th graders running out of the dance hall toward the golf course.
They were crying and seemed very upset.
Suddenly I heard that one of the eighth grade students who I knew had a gun and that he had shot Mr.
Gillette, who was an eighth grade teacher and also a student council advisor, in the leg.
Maren remembers a friend telling everyone to take cover.
My childhood best friend, on instinct, yelled, everybody get down on the ground.
So we all got down on the ground.
We were crouched together, just listening and waiting.