EDIT SAMPLE — ‘Dear Future Survivor’: School shooting survivors pen letters to future survivors

Photo by Jeisson Ortiz

Part of the Webby Award-nominated “GMA” project, Dear Future Survivor.

Edited: Melanie Schmitz

Authored: Katie Kindelan

Video: Faith Bernstein, Chris Cirillo

More than 900 school shootings have taken place in the United States in the 10 years since the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that left six adults and 20 children dead, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, an independent, nonpartisan research project.

As the number of school shootings has grown, survivors have turned to each other for comfort, support and to work together for change.

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When another school shooting happens, survivors say they reach out to each other and to the new students affected through letters, text messages, social media and email.

“ Good Morning America” asked more than one dozen survivors of school shootings across the country and across generations to write letters to the next school shooting survivor, to tell them what to expect in the days, weeks, months and years ahead, and what they wish they had known when it happened to them.

Here are their letters, presented in their own words.

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Read more at Good Morning America.