The Fourth of July holiday takes on a different meaning for the Highland Park, Illinois, community this year
Highland Park officials said they approached the event planning with a trauma-informed perspective.
Jessica Morales, Kevin Flynn, and their two small children attended the parade last year, and scrambled inside a nearby store when they shooting began. “It was really scary,” Morales said. Mietra Namdari walked the half-mile parade route with her three children, 13, 11 and 7, pointing out law enforcement officers positioned on rooftops, as the shooter had been.Molly Dillon, 34, grew up in Highland Park and said she missed last year's parade but has attended more than 25 times — “almost every year it wasn’t pouring down rain,” added Dillon’s father, Robert. This year, Molly wore a white T-shirt that said “gun control now.
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