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"Tammy Charbonneau teaches physical education at Champlain Elementary in Burlington. She has been teaching for more than 30 years.\u00A0\u00A0On the WPTZ Mobile App? Click here for video from the vigil. On Saturday, she joined other community members in a vigil at the Essex Junction Library to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting one year ago.Charbonneau said the Newtown, Conn., shooting may have happened hundreds of miles away, but for her, the tragedy hit home.\u201CThe faces of all of those children I see in my brain and I get the wonderful opportunity to teach with every single day and see, so every single one of those faces I see,\u201D said Charbonneau.The vigil was organized by Gun Sense Vermont. The group supports passing gun laws that keep children and the community safe.\u201CWe're not advocating that we do away with the Second Amendment, but we want to engage in conversations with both sides, so that we can come up with a solution to this awful problem,\u201D said Gun Sense Vermont organizer Jud Lawdrie.Charbonneau said that while the memory of Sandy Hook stays with her, it's her students that keep her going.\u201CPart of my responsibility is making sure that they  continue to come with that gleam in their eye and that I continue to show up with that gleam in mind, being fully aware of all of my responsibilities including keeping them safe and being motivated by them and whatever else happens beyond that I really can't answer to,\u201D said Charbonneau.At the end of the vigil everyone was given a worksheet to complete 26 acts of kindness in honor of the 26 victims of the elementary school shooting."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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