Elaine Lane has collected a couple hundred shoes that represent young lives lost to gun violence. Her goal is to collect thousands, to represent the total number of young people killed by violence the year her son was shot and killed.
She begs students to make positive choices so she never ends up with a pair of their shoes on her display. She hopes to collect 3,792 pairs – one for each person under age 19 who was killed by gun violence in the U.S. the year her son died.
She came up with the idea of collecting shoes after walking a path of military boots that represented lives lost in the Iraq war. But she had no idea sneakers would resonate with young people so much.
Every sneaker has a story. I just feel like it’s so many lives and so much history and so much memories to all these shoes.
— Student Tyneikia Robinson, 14.
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