Sandy Hook survivors will honor murdered classmates at their high school graduation [Video]

Students who survived the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are reflecting on the horrific mass shooting that forever changed their young lives as they prepare to graduate from high school.

“I’m happy to be graduating but there’s a lot of emotions going into having people that are supposed to be here not graduate with us,” 17-year-old Emma Ehrens, who ran from her classroom where her teacher and friends were killed when the gunman’s rifle jammed, told NewsTimes. “I get to graduate so I should be happy but … it’s still a heavy feeling on my shoulders. I can’t sever the connection between being happy and sad for graduation.”

The Sandy Hook massacre was the deadliest shooting at an elementary school in US history. Twenty first graders and six educators were killed …