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PHOTOS BY CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF

Thousands gathered on Boston Common to demand change. Among the speakers were graduates of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, where 17 people were killed. Metro, B1, B5.

MAKING THEIR FEAR AND FURY HEARD Yvonne Abraham

This land was theirs for a day, and maybe many more. Thousands of young protesters marched across the country, demanding an end to gun violence and of kowtowing to the NRA.

COMMENTARY

The kids are irate, and they are absolutely right. If they won’t lead us, whoever will? Hurry up and take over, kids. The students at the vanguard of Saturday’s March for Our Lives — arms locked tightly, voices raised in fiery defiance — could plant a glimmer of hope even in a heart utterly broken by the desecra­ tions of the last year or so. We older folk messed up royally. There weren’t enough of us to stop the ascension of a president who has given haters cover, di­ minished values we thought sacrosanct, and embraced our elected officials’ long tradition of slavish devotion to the gun right absolut­ ists at the NRA. Even in the face of repeated carnage, we were unable to budge the politicians and corporations that profit off grotesquely deadly weaponry cynically marketed as symbols of patriotism. Good for the students who led Saturday’s massive march and ABRAHAM, Page A10

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It’s the millenni­ als’ time in base­ ball, and our writers tell you what to expect. Baseball, 2018.

Photographer Nicholas Nixon has resigned from the Massa­ chusetts College of Art and De­ sign amid mis­ conduct allega­ tions. B1.

President Trump is ready to expel dozens of Rus­ sians over the UK attack. A4.

By Astead W. Herndon GLOBE STAFF

Leonor Muñoz, a survivor of the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spoke to the crowds on Boston Common.

A day of protest More than 800 events were held worldwide, ac­ cording to the US gun­control group Everytown for Gun Safety. A9.

Stepping into the fray Americans are taking to heart the adage that democracy should not be a spectator sport. A10.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thou­ sands of Americans, including many young people enraged by decades of po­ litical inaction on the issue of gun con­ trol, gathered Saturday afternoon at the National Mall and in cities across the country with a singular message for law­ makers they view as sharing blame for the country’s relentless toll of gun deaths: Enough. The nationwide protests, dubbed The March for Our Lives, were the culminat­ ing event for the youth­led, gun control movement that has rapidly built steam since mid­February, when a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Unlike with mass shootings of the past, which have garnered intense attention for a short period of time before fading from the forefront, student leaders from Stoneman Douglas have created a na­ tional network of like­minded teenagers who are challenging America’s gun lob­ by — along with the elected officials it often influences. The boisterous, singing, chanting crowd in Washington reached well over 300,000, according to a count by the As­ sociated Press. At one point, the protest­ ers jammed the entire corridor of Penn­ sylvania Avenue that stretches from the White House to the Capitol Building. “In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were in­ MARCH, Page A11

‘The most terrible thing I’ve ever been through’ A Marine died before the VA paid his claim. His wife, also a vet, still waits. By Brian MacQuarrie GLOBE STAFF

BENTON, Ark. — Robert DiCicco left a Fields Corner three­decker in 1952 to join the Marines he had idolized while growing up during World War II. A year later, he found himself crouched in a crude Korean trench, fighting for his life against a swarm of Chinese troops who outnumbered his unit 20 to 1. DiCicco survived the horror at Carson Outpost, dug close to the present­day

boundary that divides the Korean peninsula. He returned to Camp Lejeune, N.C., and married a Marine, brought her home to Dor­ chester, and later raised three children south of Boston while working for a fence compa­ ny. But when he and his wife entered a nurs­ ing home last year in this Little Rock suburb, where they had moved to be near her family, DiCicco found himself battling the same gov­ ernment he had risked his life for, a bureau­ cratic nightmare that plunged his family into financial peril. “This has been the most terrible thing I’ve ever been through,” said his widow, Mary GARETH PATTERSON FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE Lou DiCicco. Her husband died March 2 at age 85, con­ Mary Lou DiCicco held up military photos of VETERANS, Page A12 herself and her husband, Robert, in the Marines.

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