Cecilia and I want to send our sincerest thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts and prayer, thoughts, prayers.

Karen and I send prayers, the power of prayer.

Thoughts and prayers.

The right thing to do is to pray in moments like this, because you know what, prayer works.

Thoughts and prayers are really the only thing that's going to stop the evil from within the individual who is taking up their arms to do this kind of a massacre.

Holland Holm doesn't care much for thoughts and prayers anymore, at least not ones from politicians.

And that's not because he doesn't believe in the power of prayer. On the contrary, he had, in fact,

just wrapped up a prayer circle at his high school when he was 14 years old, and a classmate opened fire, and Holland felt his head start to burn his blood drip down his

cheek.

He looked around and saw one friend shot through the neck, another lay in a pool of blood

that poured from her abdomen.

When this scene unfolded in 1997, Holland quietly accepted the thoughts and prayers that were

offered to him.

But that was 21 years and dozens of school shootings ago.

Then early this year, there was yet another school shooting, this time in Marshall County,

Kentucky,

in which two were killed and 18 injured.

Afterward, the governor made a proclamation.

I'm Matthew G. Bevan, Governor of Kentucky, do hereby proclaim Sunday,

January 28, 2018, as a day of prayer for Marshall County. I urge Kentuckians of all faiths

to pray earnestly for God's comfort upon the victims and their families.

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