Would you be comfortable sharing what you went through that day at Covenant?

- Yeah.

So that was the worst day.

And we were driving down the road like crazy people, and they had blocked off all the roads around our school, and we just pulled in the middle of the road.

I just remember running up that hill, and it's like you're running in a dream or underwater and you can't get there fast enough.

Are they alive, where are they, what's going on?

And it was just chaos in that place.

They started calling people's names.

And I remember the cries.

It was almost like a primal cry when you know that they had just told the family of a victim, and you don't even have to know what they said and you knew what they said.

And then they started calling names of moms in Monroe's class, and I thought, oh my god, it's not just our city, it's not just our school, it's her class.

And then we picked her up, and her eyes were huge, and I couldn't even tell her that her friends were killed, because at that point we knew that her friends didn't make it, that her friends were murdered, and that that scary monster that came into her school that she saw, that she heard screaming at them and shooting into their classroom, that she took the lives of these people and her friends since kindergarten.

I mean, they were babies.

And why is that normal, why are we having this conversation, that this is okay?

And the terrible thing is, we're not the first parents to have this conversation.

- It's almost like we're begging people, listen, listen to us, listen to our stories.

When you look at the database of mass shootings, what you're not seeing accounted for is all the people who survived and who experienced basically a war zone in their school.

All of that lives within them now.

And so, I had a nine-year-old that turned 19 that day.

Everybody was affected.

And so, I just don't want that for any other community.

We heard about the same thing in Lewiston recently, and just could feel exactly what their pain felt like, and we still continue to hold the pain of all of these mass shooting survivors.