LANSING, Mich. — When thousands of Michigan State University students returned to campus on Monday for the first day of classes there following a deadly shooting, moms were there to help.
The moms stood with signs offering free hugs for the students, many of whom had not returned to campus since Feb. 13, when a gunman entered the East Lansing campus and fatally shot three students and injured five others, according to authorities.
Sertic said she stayed on the phone with her daughter, while also checking on the safety of her nephew, who is a freshman at the university. Both Sertic's daughter and nephew were safe, but she said it was a"very scary ordeal" for them all. "I really felt strongly about doing something for all of the students because I knew there had to be others who felt very much the same as my daughter," Sertic said."I threw an idea out to this parents' association group and said, 'What if we got together and set up a table and a tent and we had some snacks, whatever we can come up with, and we're just there to show the students we support them and we care for them? We can give them hugs if they want hugs.
"There is absolutely no way that this could have been what it was without all of the other parent volunteers and all the businesses that jumped in," Sertic said."The generosity and the amount of love and compassion that [everyone] showed in jumping in to support this really helped make this possible."
"It not only helped the students, but I can genuinely tell you that it helped the parents too," Sertic said, adding that she's getting text messages, phone calls and thank you cards from students' family members."I think it’s starting some of the healing process for us all."
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