Newtown Students, Parents Join March For Our Lives in Washington, DC

Several students and parents affected by the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School took part in the March For Our Lives in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

Matthew Soto took the stage to speak to the tens of thousands of who gathered for the march. His sister, Victoria Soto, was a teacher at Sandy Hook and was killed along with 20 children and five other educators inside the school.

"At the age of 15, I sat in my high school Spanish class while my sister, Victoria Soto, was being slaughtered in her classroom in Newtown, Connecticut," Soto told the crowd.

Soto was joined on stage by Newtown High School students Tommy Murray and Jackson Mittleman who then presented the students of Stoneman Douglas High with a signed banner that read "Newtown High School stands with Stoneman Douglas."

"We have worked incredibly hard for the last five years to protect other communities," Mittleman said. "But apparently Sandy Hook was not enough for America to make the changes, but after Parkland, we feel hope."

Nelba Marquez-Greene, who lost her 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, in the Sandy Hook shooting, marched in the streets of Washington, D.C. on Saturday.

"The students who spoke today were all impacted by gun violence and compelling speakers," Marquez-Greene tweeted. "This should not be their burden. I am proud of them and I am heartbroken this is their reality."

Marquez-Greene even ran into a woman in the crowd who held a sign depicting her daughter, Ana Grace, and read "Love Wins."

"What are the odds I would find this woman in a crowd of thousands?" she tweeted.

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