Peter Wang and the others who gave their lives to save others are the ones whose names should be remembered.
Via Daily Wire:
Parkland student Kyle Kashuv is asking others to sign a petition he started to encourage President Donald Trump to give a student who died in the Parkland Shooting while helping others the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Peter Wang, 15, was a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) cadet who was killed while holding the door to let others out of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February last year during an active shooter situation where a total of 17 students and staffers were killed.
Wang and two other JROTC members who were killed, Alaina Petty, 14, and Martin Duque, 14, were honored by the Florida National Guard.
Wang was posthumously accepted to the U.S Military Academy at West Point— where he dreamed of going to school— “for his heroic actions,” the academy said in a statement.
“It was an appropriate way for USMA to honor this brave young man,” the statement said. “West Point has given posthumous offers of admission in very rare instances for those candidates or potential candidate’s whose actions exemplified the tenets of Duty, Honor, and Country.”