While the size of the crowd was impressive, the events on the stage were even more so. Speaker after speaker delivered powerful orations. Having witnessed the bloodshed first hand and having suffered the loss of close friends, their voices were filled with emotion. Ms. Gonzalez—whose electrifying speech three days after the massacre in Parkland has made her a viral star with 1.2 million Twitters followers—electrified the Washington crowd again, this time with silence. When she resumed, she told the audience that that was how long the Parkland shooting lasted.

Source: Forbes March 25, 2018 00:22 UTC