A school shooting survivor designed a symbolic tattoo to bond with other survivors across the U.S. She estimates around 100 survivors have gotten the tattoo or plan to in the future.
On December 1, 1997, three people died and five were injured during a shooting at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, after a 14-year-old student opened fire on a group of students praying on campus. Now, 22 years after the tragic event, one survivor, Nikki Orazine, is hoping to bond with other school shooting survivors both locally and across the nation with a special symbol.
According to Orazine, she and her classmates remained silent for 20 years and tried to figure out on their own how to handle their trauma, as well as the resulting panic attacks, depression, anxiety and lapses in memory that came with it. "At our 20th anniversary, one of our classmates, who lost her sister in the shooting, organized restoration of the memorial that we had at our high school. There was a memorial service that most classmates attended," Orazine says."There was something magical and healing in that service. Since then, for the past two years, our classmates have finally started actually talking about the shooting.
The end product is a re-imagined phoenix with a triangle, the"strongest geometric shape that exists," and a body of a diamond, which is"made stronger under pressure." The tail is an infinity symbol, which is meant to symbolize the continuance of survivors. A group of former Heath High School students also bonded with a mother who lost a daughter in the Marshall County High School shooting, Huckleberry says.
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