They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.
More of our fellow Americans might still be alive, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and graduations.
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They miss birthdays and Christmas, Little League games, graduations, school plays, first teeth, first steps, first words.
The case is different, since (even in Texas) football games are voluntary, but graduations are usually mandatory.
Levinson has also missed a son and daughter's high school and college graduations.
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"They both wore yellow ribbons and carried pictures of Bob to the graduations just to keep him in our prayers, " Christine Levinson said.
The boycott of exam and coursework-marking, which began in March, had threatened to disrupt thousands of graduations this summer and delay job applications.
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They made sacrifices as well, those intangible sacrifices -- those missed births and those missed birthdays, those missed graduations, those missed -- an occasional funeral.
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With graduations threatened, universities such as Cambridge and Keele have already set in motion "emergency measures" - such as using exam papers from other sources - the AUT said.
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Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.
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Saturday's graduation went on like thousands of other high school graduations across the country, with robes and mortar boards, out-of-town relatives, and student speeches looking to the future.
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"Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun, " he said.
And, you know, because high school graduations - let me put it this way - I don't think you get paid and I don't think you'll get an honorary doctorate.
Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun -- more than a thousand.
Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun - more than a thousand.
They will watch the argument in their case and then return home to wait for the decision, worried that it could come the same day as the boys' high school graduations in mid-June.
Graduations are always happy occasions.
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