For many the March for Our Lives has one goal, reducing the chances of future school shootings and fewer lives needlessly lost to someone with an agenda and a problem.
For me there is another. After years of trying to make the world a better place, I have worked alone and beside others who have sacrificed their own good life for the better lives of people they knew and, more importantly, those they will never know.
The fear has been, after having lived in the world as it had been and making the necessary changes, what was won could be lost through apathy.
I think specifically of the Gay Rights struggles and victories I have been a witness to and worker for in my lifetime.
Although I have benefited from what was accomplished, and have seen those seemingly taking for granted what they now enjoy as a given without knowledge of, or experience in what it took to get, my fear has been that much could be lost through apathy and passivity, with little evidence that someone will step up and preserve and increase what has been won and what positive changes have been made.
This march has been organized by the youth, sadly needing multiple deaths and too many school shootings to get to this point, and, although I and other members of the old guard will be there to lend our bodies, voices, and signs, I hope we are hugely outnumbered by the young who should and will be there.
This is the moment when we old guys can see the world and the struggle is in good hands, feeling secure in knowing, having seen them, that the good hands are there.