Opinion: Student Walkout Is America’s Lesson of a Lifetime

Seventeen-year-old Annie McCasland of Potomac, Maryland holds up a sign during a rally at the U.S. Capitol to urge Congress to take action against gun violence on March 14, 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The protest marked one month since a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

When Marjorie Stoneman Douglas exercised her freedom of speech to protect the Everglades at a 1973 public hearing in Everglades City, she never imagined that years later a Florida school would bear her name.

Douglas was a tenacious fighter against the indifference of officials destroying wetlands and upsetting a national treasure.

America’s Youth, Our National Treasure

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, located in Parkland, Florida, is in the Miami metropolitan area.