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.
Vincent J. Bove
Author
Vincent J. Bove, CPP, is a national speaker and author on issues critical to America. Bove is a recipient of the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for combating crime and violence and is a former confidant of the New York Yankees. His newest book is “Listen to Their Cries.” For more information, see www.vincentbove.com
