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On May 16th, 2022 over 900 students graduated from Miami University\u2019s Farmer School of Business, myself included. That number should have been closer to 1350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember sitting in Millett Hall all excited and dressed up, ready to throw my hat in the air after all the speeches. I even got to sit next to some close companions of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember thinking about how great the last four years had been, the memories I made while at Miami, some good and some bad, and the struggles I fought through to get to that day. I had a sense of accomplishment for achieving a degree, and I was proud to be surrounded by good friends who had also persevered through good and bad times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My family came up from Cincinnati for the graduation ceremony, and we were going to go to a party that afternoon, which I was excited about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet somehow, I had an eerie feeling that something was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very <\/em>wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought that maybe it could just be that feeling you get when you are at the end of something and you move on to another beginning. I talked to a lot of my classmates about sad feelings of graduating, and I even saw many of them cry as they gave their parting goodbyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone gets a little sad at graduation, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no, this feeling was much bigger than that. Something was missing<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach walking away from the graduation ceremony. There was no other way to describe it except for a feeling of deep sadness, like an empty hole in my heart that even the excitement of graduation could not fill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It dawned on me that maybe that \u201csomething\u201d wasn\u2019t something at all, but rather, someone. Or even someones<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is when I was reminded of a statistic someone shared with me just a few days before when interviewing for a job:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cJohnny, one third of your generation has been killed through abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the first time I had heard that statistic, and then I realized why I was feeling so sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our graduating class was 900, but it should have been closer to 1350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was reminded of the movie classic, It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, where the main character George Bailey is given the unique gift to see what the world would have been like if he had never been born. I was reminded by the quote from his guardian angel, Clarence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStrange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lord had given me a special grace that day to feel just a little bit the sense of the awful hole of missing classmates I never got the chance to meet, of girls I never got the chance to date, of laughter that wasn\u2019t had, of lives that never got the chance to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this number in mind, I\u2019d like to ask my fellow classmates of Miami University, and anyone else reading this article, to just take a moment on this coming September 10th \u2013 the National Day of Remembrance for Abortion Victims<\/a> \u2013 and help me mourn the millions of lives that have been lost to abortion. They were lost from our<\/em> generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re near Cincinnati, please join us in-person<\/strong> on September 10th at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery<\/a> from 9am to 11am to mourn the loss of these abortion victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we could all take a break from political statements for one day and just show our compassion by mourning our own fellow human beings who never got the chance at life\u2026like we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By:  Johnny Giroux<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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