2009 Stories

As a homeschooler I was the only one in my home participating. However many of my public school buddies were in it with me. I was out in public all day and I hope that I helped someone somehow. As I walked by people many would stop and stare at my shirt, read it, whatever. I just hope it helped somehow.

-- Ashley

**************************

during pro-life day at my school, we had about over 40 people participate!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was sooooo excited. our teachers told us that we may not be allowed to wear it on our faces. WE DIDNT CARE. we did it neways, thanks pro-life. it really got people involved, and got people to think twice about abortions. PRO-LIFE 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

-- Jessica Alba

**************************

well about 50 people at my school new caney high school in new caney texas chose to be silent for a day to help with all the innocent children that did not have the chance to let there voice be heard .teacher are telling use to remove the duct tape and red arm bands but we all will say no to let them no, we are standing up for what we believe in...for what needs to be heard threw out the world..i am going silent and you all should to ...XD...THINK OF THE CHILDREN

-- jessica osburn

**************************

I Participated, Along With A Handful Of My Friends. We Had A Ton Of People Going Against Us, And Speaking Out, Knowing We Couldn't Talk Back. Even My 3rd Block Substitute Was Fighting Against Me, And Didn't Even Know Me. This Boy In 3rd Block Asked My Why I Didn't Say Hey To Him That Day, So I Handed Him That Sheet, And He Read It. He Then Said Very Loudly, "You Are So Stupid For Doing This!" And Crumpled The Paper In My Face, And Threw It In The Trash Can. I Then Started To Cry, Because I Wanted So Badly To Yell Back At Him And Stand Up For It, But Knew That By Being Silent I Was Doing The Same Thing. My Asked What Was Wrong, So I Handed Her Another Flyer. She Then Read Aloud To The Class Exactly What It Said, And Immediately I Had People Hating. Luckily, More Than Half The Class Took My Side, And Were Also Against It, And Fought Back With Words I Wouldn't Say Aloud. I Thank God That The People Who Care About Murder Were There. God Works In Many!

-- Sara Craven

**************************

When I walked into school on the day of silence the founder of the pro-life club @ our school was taping every1 who was participating. I was happy to see there was a huge crowd of people who were taking the vow of silence. 1 boy surprised me because he was a HUGE supporter of Obama. Well as I was walkin 2 my 2nd period class there were people w/ blue tape w/ choice written on them. Apparently some1 had brought it as a joke & people took it seriously. What was worse was the guy who had surprised me w/ being pro-life walked into class a few periods later asking some1 to write choice on the blue tape on his arm. I was so mad I threw something at him. If u can change ur mind that quickly about something so important then u dont know enough on the topic 2 have an opinion at all.

For most of the day it seemed like all I could see was blue tape. But 1 girl saw me & my friend, both of us with tape on our arms, & said "I really respect u guys." I dont know if she was pro-life or pro-abortion, but she made my day knowing that some1 respected us doing wat we did.

-- Darby

**************************

We had at least 40 teens participating in this event at our high school and middle school.
They were harrassed, abused, pressured, mocked, their arm bands torn off etc. Their handouts were thrown on the floor, torn up and given back to them with rude remarks. One male student wore a sign on his chest "Abortion is Fun" At the end of the day they arrived at the church for a debriefing of the day emotionally exhausted and angry. I encouraged them that for all the bullies who abused them there were many more students who silently watched and that I am sure they made an impact. They want to do it again next year but suggested simpler handouts that teens would be more apt to read.

-- Pastor Cherie

**************************

On Silent Day, there weren't very many people that participated at my school, but those who did were dedicated. We saw many dirty looks and heard a lot of comments like "Pro-Choice is the best option", but we stood tall. If Pro-Choice was God's option, he wouldn't have said "Thou shall not kill". Abortion IS murder. Conception is the beginning of life. We just need to get that through people's minds.

To Everyone That Participated: God bless you!! It's about time people stand for what they believe in!!!

-- Brittney Vandergrift

**************************

I go to lackey highschool , and i walked into school on silent day and i was the only person there with the duct tape on my mouth . by the end of the day i was a witness to everyone . so many kids read the papers and made up their mind to be silent for the silenced . I gave up my voice for the second year in a row . and man , it was worth it .

-- Tricia Martin

**************************

I introduced silent day to my school this year. I found your information on someone's myspace a year ago. So I have been patiently waiting for that long, I was so excited :D. So when the day came near I brought the idea to our Youth for Life Club at Saint Mary's High School. They agreed to do it. I only expected like maybe 20 kids to participate. Turns out that about one hundred did! It was so amazing to watch. In addition, there was 200- 300 more kids who did support out cause only by wearing the tape. Although those extra kids did not remain silent, it was still pretty cool to see my generation actively being Pro-Life. More pics will come!

-- Estevan Wetzel

**************************

I did the day of silence at my school and it was Amazing. it started out with about ten of us doing it, by the end of the day there were close to fifty. People did make jokes and some said terrible things, but i think this event caused a spark in my school. i am definetly going to do this next year!!!
God Bless.

-- rachel

**************************

It went suprisingly well, I got all my friends to do it, and I have a bunch of pictures. My other friend though had some trouble with her school a Catholic school for wearing the red tape. And this one pregnant girl came up to me and said "I'm pregnant...."
I smiled, keeping my silence and hugged her.
"I'm considering an abortion 'cause this is my third child."
So I had to break my silence then to convince her to not get an abortion.

-- Meagan

**************************

That was an awesome day. I had prayed the night before that this will hlp someone and will stir up stuff in my school so that people will realize that abortion is wrong. I did this with my bff Jen who shares the same beliefs. We made our own shirts that said on the front "god gave us life..." then on the back "why should we have a choice?" we also had our own fact sheets that said what and why we are doing this and some with facts that were really sad. The look on peoples faces were complete horror when they read some of our true fact cards. And a lot of people really admired what we did, and this one girl actually joined us when she saw us. Over all it was a great day execpt for this one girl, who is pro-choice. She was saying the most horrible vile things. the on that stuck with me the most and makes me shiver when i hear about it is "if i got prego i would just have that THING sucked out, chopped up and put in the trash." and more disgusting things if that nature to the point that i was crying. I couldnt stomach all the stuff she was saying, and all i could do was cry and pray during that class. The stuff she was saying made people so upset that some people who were pro-choice changed to pro-life, just because of what she was saying. Next year we are getting a big group together because a lot of people said they would do it!!!! thank God, and keep praying for it to stop!!!

-- Nia Gadsden

**************************

Gainesville State College's Students For Life mobilized over 60 people on the Silent Day in an unprecedented show of student outcry. Professors and staff members were wearing tape, class periods were cancelled, and four people chose life.

-- Joshua Edmonds

**************************

Over 40 students on Gainesville State College campus in Oakwood, Ga. participated in the Silent Day.

-- Joshua Edmonds

**************************

I don't really have a story but after the event i made a poem.

I took all your dirty looks and your sneers, but to be honest....those aren't my fears. i stayed silent to have a voice, that was my choice. but through it all did you hear what i had to say? or did you just laugh and look away? around the world today people are commiting an act of violence but today i was silenced.

That day was the hardest most amazing exhilariting day i have ever had.

-- Chrissy Chase

**************************

I'm a girl and a Sophomore in high school. I was the only one at my school doing this, that I know of anyways! It was so amazing though. Everyone was talking about it. Lots of people asked me what I was doing and I showed them the handout. My French teacher even had someone read it to the whole class to let everyone know what I was doing. In fourth, I had to talk, because I was cooking with 3 guys. And I was doing a project after school, so I had to talk. But almost the whole time from when I woke up to the time I got out of school, duct tape was on my mouth. My mouth was actually sore and kinda hurting cuz I had to replace it like 4-5 times. But it was SO beyond worth it. I was so proud to be standing up for those who can't. And speaking out by being silent for those who won't ever get the chance to. None of my teachers gave me any problems either, which I was happy about. If someone is reading this and they want to be a participant for the 2010 day, but they don't know if they should, I strongly recomend it! Even if you don't have any friends doing it or if you don't know anyone doing it, it is the best feeling in the world getting through the day. Next year I'm going to try to not speak at all, and not text at all from 12am-12pm. I'm so excited! :)) great day.

-- AshleyAnn

**************************

I went to school and people went by and they would say pro choice but i honestly didnt care. they can believe what they want and i can believe what i want. People didnt understand why we werent talking and they said that we should talk so that we can say why we are against abortion, yet they dont understand that we can talk about abortion everyday but when we were silent for abortion it actually got there attention. I loved silent day and i cant wait till the next one. It was amazing:) I am glad to stand up for myself and not care what other people think.

-- catelyn crawford

**************************

this is my 3rd year doing this. i was really excited and ready to be silent. i was the only person doing this at my community college of a couple thousand people. i was very unhappy when i registered the night before to have to submit my schools name because i know it ment no one else was going to be doing it with me. I didn't have a good day i ended up talking because i had my math tutoring class and had math problems i couldn't figure out so i ended up talking more than i wanted to. I tried my hardest to not talk to the people in my class but that didn't really work so i was really disappointed in myself because i didn't stay silent. Im excited for next year cause i know it will be a better year than this year was.

-- Jessica C

**************************

This year, participating in the day of silence was harder than I thought it would be. I've watched two of my friends become pregnant, both now with beautiful baby boys a little under one years old.I've seen their struggles and wonder at times whether it would have just been better for them to get an abortion. What drove me to participate in the day of silence, was the fact that I've also seen the emotional strains that abortions take. And that is a lot uglier than what my friends are going through now.

So I will continue to participate
Thank you so much for the opportunity

-- Sarah

**************************

October 20, 2009
Silence. That is what I have been minimized to. I am not able to speak. All communication has been cut off. I am useless and helpless with no power to defend myself. Everything moves on while I am stuck trying to get my point across with no words to aid me. What happens now is in the hands of the people around me. They make the decisions and I am powerless against them. This is not how it should be.
I gave up my voice for 24 hours to honor those who are silenced forever.
The unborn are defenseless against the world. No one should have the power to silence them. Only God can make that decision. My eyes were opened wide today. It has been 18 hours since my last conversation. 18 hours and twenty seconds since I have connected to anyone other than God. My emotions have been bottled up inside of me waiting for the chance to be expressed. I am anxious from not being able to speak with the ones I love. Communication is the key to living.
Life is something I take for granted every day. I fear all the ways my life can be taken from me in the future. I fear losing the ones I love to death. I never stop to remember that I was given the chance to breathe my first breath and love my first love. Humans do not have the authority to take that chance away. We cannot try to be God because God will always be greater and wiser. Always.
I decided to take a stand against abortion. I prayed in preparation and God answered my prayers. The response I received was overwhelming. God is starting a revolution to reverse these decisions our society has made.
God will use me. God will use you. God will use us.

We are children of God and he wants to protect us all. We are children of God and he has the plan. We are children of God and he needs us to save our brothers and sisters.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart….”
Dear friends, now we are the children of God….”

-- Leandra Furtado

**************************

July 14, 1988 was supposed to be my child's birthday. Thank each and every one of you for doing this and for standing up for her like I should have all those years ago. She would have been your college classmate, your study partner, your waitress, maybe even your friend. When I first went to see an ob/gyn about my pregnancy she did not say one word about pre-natal care. She did not say, "You can do it!" Instead she gave me the number to an abortion clinic and told me to call them immediately. For 21 years I have watched your generation grow up and all the friends she could have had. This summer, I had a dream that my child had been given up for adoption, came back all grown up, had red hair and gave me a hug. Then I woke up. Her name would have been Rebecca. I wrote her name on the 'memo' space of the check. Can you imagine? I will work for pro-life for the rest of my life, but nothing will bring her back. But Jesus gives me hope. If God can ressurrect a field of dry bones, there is hope that my child is in heaven. All of you give me hope. Keep up the good work; don't let the 'choicers' get you down. They don't realize what they're doing.

-- Notmom

**************************

Today I just found out that on October 20th my cousin was scheduled to have an abortion. She went to the clinic and went through the 2hour "preparation" meeting and afterwards when it was time to take the pill she ran out! She said that she couldn't do it! God is so good!

-- Alexis Khosla

**************************

I went to school, i was wearing white skinnies, with a baby and the growing up stages drawn on the leg, and on red ductape i wrote down let this be your kid. and a girl at my school, she's in 8th grade, so am i. But she comes up to me and says "Hope, I was going to get an abortion today... Can you give me some red ductape? I don't want to live with being responsible or known as a monster to kill a baby... I won't eat meat and anything from animals, but yet i was willing to take an innocent babies life?" I took off the red ductape, smiled and put my hand on her shoulder. I gave her a hug and broke my silence. I told her "I'm proud of her." I gave her a piece of ductape and a shirt my sister had from last year's prolife day.... my sister is now pro-choice. but I put on a new piece and kept my silence.

-- Hope Weyenberg

**************************

Im 16 and a Junior in High school in Florida and I am also the Bound4life New Port Richey chapter leader. I wanted to report that all six High schools in my distritct had atleast over FIFTY kids particapating in the silence, I have heard stories from friends of Girls who had abortions particapating and talking to others about the issue of what they have done and regreted it so much, there were so many pro-choice people changed to pro-life. I truely believe that lives were changed and saved Tuesday and it was amazing to see God work all over our County! I just want to thank you for all that StandTrue has and is doing to bring forth Justice. :)

God bless,
megan :)

-- Megan Shade

**************************

Tuesday was one of the hardest, but most amazing days of my life. I didn't register but I was silent. During my lunch period a girl grabbed my arm and took me to an empty table. There she told me that she was aprox. 14 weeks with twins and she was going to abort. She was going to go through with the pregnancy when she thought it was just one baby, but said she couldn't handle 2. I broke my silence for her, and after a lunch not eaten and a whole lunch period of tears she decided to adopt out the children, as she was going to do anyways. I am going to help her out as much as I can!

-- Rachel Vernacii

**************************

Tuesday was amazing. This was my first year taking part in silent day. I'm in college. I think i was the only one on campus that did the full day of silence, but I went through almost an entire roll of red tape giving out arm bands to supporters. My muslim friends wore arm bands, too. I even had two muslim girls that I didn't know come up to me and ask if they could support too. My favorite part about the day was my little sister. I told her about it a week ago and she was all in. No one at my old high school (now her school) ever partook in silent day before. My little sister got over 30 people to join her in silence and stand up for the unborn. In a school that's only about 1,000 students, it made a pretty big difference. One of her friends, whom actually had an abortion before, was one of the most passionate supporters. Like I said, it was amazing. God is amazing.

-- Katelyn Hafner

**************************

I,Brandi Marshall,made a huge difference with 60% of my school.The few people who are pregnant at my school that were suggesting to get an abortion are now against abortion.

-- Brandi Marshall

**************************

I attend an italian public high school... of course no one has ever heard about silent day and abortion is not discussed hardly at all by my age group, and teenage pregnancies are also taboo. I think I made a big impact on my class and I hope some will think twice and make good decisions...

-- Alexandra

**************************

For the past two events, I've participated in the way that I've been silent and prayed, but I had stayed home both those times. This year I went into town and handed out fliers, as well as being silent and in prayer.

It was an interesting experience, to say the least.

Most people blatantly ignored me, and most of the few that took fliers read them and then threw them away. There were a few that did pay attention though.

There was one guy whom I gave a flier to was in utter shock about how many babies were being murdered. I'm not sure how, or if he plans to act on his shock, but that was an amazing thing to see.

Another person I gave a flier to proceeded to write me a note that said "you go girl! hope it helps", which was very encouraging after being ignored by so many.

and then I got hit on by a fireman after I gave him a flier. that was somewhat awkward. I was very thankful that I had to remain silent at that point.

Only God knows what the extent of the impact was on Tuesday, but I will continue to pray that it streched far and wide.

-- Hannah Simpson

**************************

I'm a junior in high school and at the begining of the day it was just me four of my friends, but by the end of the day we had about twenty people who had joined in. This was my first year to do this and I was very pleased with the results we had. My English teacher was the only teacher that didn't respect what we were doing.

-- Leigh-An

**************************

I Was At A Library The Whole Day, But I Talked To So Many People About It, (Even Though We Weren't Suppose To Talk) I Talked To About 3 Girls Who Were Thinking About Getting A Abortion, After I Talked To Them They Seemed To Understand That It's Wrong. They Even Started Crying. I Don't Know If They Will Not Get Abortions Or Not, But I Tryed.

-Regina

-- Regina

**************************

Hello, this was my 3rd year participating in the day of silence. I live in an extremely liberal, middle-sized city and go to a school of 2200 people, most of whom are pro-choice. During my 1st year (My friend and I were the first ones to ever do it at my school) I was humiliated in everyway possible by my peers who would openly talk about how killing babies was fun and how they enjoyed making footballs out of them. As if that wasn't enough, one of my teachers held a grudge against me for the rest of the year and I barely passed the class. However, I have been informing more people about it and I was able to get about 15 people to be silent and another 10 to support the cause by writing LIFE on their hands this year. When Obama was elected, there were literally thousands of people dancing in the streets and on their knees crying, some were even my teachers. Being in this kind of environment can really take it's toll on people who are pro-life because they try to make it feel like we're the minority when in reality the whole country is more pro-life then pro-choice! Even though I haven't had the satisfaction of knowingly saving a child, I just keep striving for the day when maybe the pro-lifers in my city will understand they're not alone and when that day comes, it won't matter that I've been called an 'ignorant asshole' or 'dumbass'. I'll be able to say that I was able to open the eyes of alot of ignorant people and show them what abortion really is. 
MURDER.
Thank you so much for creating this organization. It really is amazing.

-- Darren

**************************

I kept a journal for every break, class, and during lunch throughout the day. Luckily I brought the roll of duct tape with me. When I got to school, I was supposed to meet the other 2 people at my school that were participating. After 3 class periods, I had through my example of silence, encouraged 5 other people to join. I received the most criticism from someone that I believed was very close to me. She is a Religion teacher. She kept asking me to take off my tape. I couldn't verbalize anything, so I just shook my head and took whatever consequences she will give me. I struggled through out the day to keep my head up at times because of the piercing stares, but I managed. I had one girl ask me "what if I was raped, and I get an abortion?" during class. I could not answer her at that point in time, but I passed her a note saying I would either the next day, or later. She avoided me all day. They next day when I had her in class again, she looked away, ashamed. I e-mailed her a response about rape and incest, and I have not heard back yet.

-- Cassie Harrison

**************************

The whole day I prayed for all the people who are affected by /choose abortion as the only way. It didn't really hit me how much not having a voice really means until almost the end of the day when I couldn't speak to my friends about really anything because I didn't have a voice. I was also amazed at the amount of support we had from so many people at our high school and the amount of people who really don't know what is going on. I think the silent day really taught me to listen to those without a voice and brought me that much closer to God.

-- Paije Balthazor

**************************

The Kelso Girls Soccer team took part in this!! A couple of us had to break the silence to talk to them about the importance of letting the little ones have a voice. We got about 20 people by lunch to join us! it was fantastic!!

-- Brittany Carterby

**************************

This was the first year I participated in silent day, though I had heard about it before. It was really difficult to go throughout my day without talking, and sometimes found myself mouthing words, or writing things down. Still, I got about three people to join me, and even that was amazing. I hope that next year, I will be more prepared, and get some teachers and staff on board for this worthy cause! I will also be more strict in not trying to communicate with others on this day, other than talking to people about abortion if need be. It's great to know that you're not alone in the fight to end abortion :) <3

-- Amber

**************************

Last year was my first year to participate in the Silent Day. There were maybe 4 or 5 people that also participated. This year I was happy to see that word spread so much all over campus that we had around 40 or 50 participants. It was nice to see the cause grow that much in just one year. :D

-- Brittany Sammons

**************************

Well,my friends told me about this pro-life day. And at first,I didn't really know what it was about and so I read into it. After the few minutes,I was all for it. It made me so upset to hear these stories and know people were actually like that. On Wednesday October 20,2009 I am proud to say that I was completely silent,and I am all for this organaztion and totally against abortion.

Thank you for this great opportunity.
:)

-- Courtney beasley

**************************

On Pro-life Day Of Silent Solidarity, I was silent. I gave up my voice for those who could not speak for themselves. Yes, I was teased. I was pushed into lockers; I was called many names, mostly "freak"; but I stood my ground. I stood up for what I believe in, and that's all that matters.

-- RaeLynn

**************************

This is me, when I got back to my car. The day was odd, being silent, because I am used to talking so much but it gave me alot of time to think and alot of time to make others think about this cause. I was not received well in every situation but i was prepared for that. I got to participate with my boyfriend and it was hard for us to not be able to talk to each other but it was so worth it. Even if one life was saved by the entire day in every one's combined effort. It was a beautiful worthwhile experience. God is good. I had never learned the value of silence and now I know how silence can leave others speechless. Reading the facts about how many babies die every day and the different life stages, I was in silent awe. This day was such a good experience, and I just got the email that they already know 27 lives were saved, thats beautiful! What a God-filled silence!! Thank you for spreading awareness of this day!! Keep up the good work!! ~Keri~

-- Keri Joy

**************************

i knew when i decide to take part in the Prolife Day of silent solidarity that it wouldnt be easy i understood there would only be a few of us (only 4) in a school of three thousand i thought people would ignor us but i was wrong. i dont know about the others but i was harassed and threatened even by some friends its amazingly horrible how poelpe act when they are confronted with poeple who share different beliefs most poeple stared or even glared...i smiled b/c the point was to make people think i have good experiences too people offered support and spread the word after being harassed all of first period the teacher took me aside and told me he supported me i had a teacher harass me the day after wonderin how long id put a woman in jail for havin an abortion...i was astounded that she had the nerve she always been kind to me... im not here to put women in jail im here to stop the legal murder of babies. our school was very angry and some still are and next yr there will be more of us.

-- Megan

**************************

I was the only one at my small private Christian school that participated. I didn't wear duck tape but i wrote day of silence on my hand. Alot of people were really immature about it by trying to get me to talk and laughing about it, but in the end it's not about what they think, it's about me standing up for my beliefs no matter what.
Psalm 139:13-16

-- Bridget

**************************

This was my first year taking part in the day of silence. I do my schooling online but also go on campus for some college courses I'm taking, so there was some interaction there. More people than I expected joined in with me, and as I expected there were some rude remarks, as well. It makes my heart heavy to think that so many people are so careless about human life. Still, it was a good experience overall and I talked to 3 girls who weren't sure what they were going to do in regards to their pregnancies- the worst part for me was that one of them was SO uninformed on the issue. She had no idea about the actual procedures themselves, or about the biological facts (pre-birth milestones, etc) and more than that, she had been made to feel like abortion was her ONLY choice. We had a talk and she decided on an adoption instead. It feels so amazing to make a difference :)

-- Jessi

**************************

I was the only one at my school to do it out of thousands. Everybody tried to get me to talk because they didnt understand so i approached them today and explained what i was doing and why and next year they promised to do it with me and get more people.

-- jessica moody

**************************

I am a stay at home mother of four, and we only have one car, so my contribution yesterday was strictly informative. My facebook was blown up (by me of course) with information and protest and love all day long. Late in the evening, i received a short comment on a video, of a priest demonstrating the act of abortion with a model of a fetus and forceps. The person who wrote me stated
and i quote:
"i had to stop watching this video - i ust say i WAS pro-choice but after this i am proud to say that i am NO LONGER that. thank you abby for bringing that to my attention.... keep on putting this out there and let girls and women know that there ARE other options!!!!!"

i cried tears of joy, finally, instead of tears of despair over abortion, (which i cry often) i felt a tiny bit of peace... it may only be one person, but my inability to reach outside my home did not inhibit my ability to turn a heart. Praise God!

-- abigail iovine

**************************

I chose to participate in the day of silence as soon as I heard about it, and it was such a learning experience, to tell the truth. First of all, people talk about a whole lot of nothing the majority of the time. Not being able to participate in the conversation made everything really seem so serious- like they weren't seeing the real issues. Another huge aspect of participating was the reaction of those who saw me wearing red duct tape over my mouth: many looked at me like I was crazy, or were shocked, and a few even laughed. But when I showed them the reason behind it, and they learned a little more about abortion, I watched their faces fall and their attitudes sober up. So many people are blissfully unaware of the raviging horrors of abortion, and it's a tragedy that so few care. Thousands die everyday, millions every year, but no one seems to notice. A third of my generation was never even born. If that's not sobering, I don't know what is.

-- Tori Ponceti

**************************

At the beginning of October, I had to go through my administration to participate. And After a few meetings, he told me i wasn't allowed to wear the duct tape because it was a health issue and it was a distraction to others during class. So, as a compromise, i had a pack of doctor's masks that cover your mouth and nose, and what i did was tape them in half and cover them up with red tape and wrote LIFE on it. And since he wasn't allowing red duct tape, i made like 20 of them to give to the other people that wanted to participate so they wouldn't get in trouble. I didnt expect it, but there were SO many people that asked me what it was about and even the people that didn't ask me or even seen me yet, would be like "Oh hey heard your being silent for the WHOLE day" so that was really cool and i ended up giving ALL the masks away! :D Over all it was a good day with few negative remarks and only one teacher MADE me talk. because she's not very nice and doesnt like me. But i got so many people involved. Shows it just takes one person to make a difference(:

-- Lina Perez

**************************

im arielle im 14 pro, life day might have been silent but people heard it loud and clear it was silent and fought for these innocent babies, and i will continue to do so until my last breath.i am pro life!

-- arielle crotty

**************************

Throughout my day of silence I was pushed,shoved,and made fun of.But I stuck it out.I had people come up to me and ask what I was doing.I handed them a handout and they looked up at me and asked for tape.It was such an amazing expeirence and i cant wait to do it again@

-- ally

**************************

This is my third year participating, but this year is definitely the one filled with the most ridicule. People react is strange ways when truth is revealed to them. It's amazing to see the power of one act. I could tell the protest was something that stuck with people because the next day people had blue duct tape on their backs that said "Choice." To me, that shows that they are thinking about it, and they expected me to have a reaction. I just smiled and went on with my day, praying that my attitude preached even more to them. Silent Day is always uplifting for me. It's amazing to see the power truth holds.

-- Gabi Noweder

**************************

I'm used to small private Christian school. Doing things like Silent Day was a big thing. Not in Public School. The strange looks in the halls and the constent prompting by friends to "Say something!" kept gettign at me. I stuck my beliefs. No matter how many times I wanted to speak up for myself after being made fun of, i kept quiet. Something as small as an unborn baby is bigger then ignorant high school children. *WWJD* seemed to be the phrase inside my head. "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Phillipians 4:13. God is real. Peace.

-- Grace Williams

**************************

WOW I'm Speechless ;)
so prolife day at my school was amazinggg.
there was over 200 kids who participated.
(they were not registered)
this is the first year this prolife was ever seen or heard of at my school.
at first i really didnt think a lot of kids were gunna participate just because not talking was superduper hard, but the turn out was amazinnngg!!! in my mind i thought only around 10-15 kids would participate, but no!! OVER 200!! I DID NOT IMAGINE WHAT ONLY TWO ROLLS OF TAPE CAN DO!

it was all put on by students
and the administration at my high school were blowned away by it!
This day really united my school in oneness!

still today people are asking if we can have another prolife day. SO NEXT YEAR I KNOW THAT IT WILL BE EVEN GREATERR!!

-- MO'nique

**************************

I, along with a few of my friends, where planning for Silent Day for a while. There where a few rude comments about it, but I wouldn't suspect anything less. But I did have about six people ask me for tape to participate.

I think it was preductive, better then the last few years I did it.

-- Cara

**************************

this was a awesome day half of our school got into it an most of them were people ud never think would do it we passed out red peices of fabric and buttons and the wore them as a stand i felt soooo proud to be apart of it

-- charity pond

**************************

I wore the tape to school and when I got to first period my teacher made me take it off I said n o and he sent me to the office.
The this woman saw me at the door and told me to take it off and I said no, so she told me to call my mother and get her to pick me up.
When I got into the room she asked why I was silent and I gave her the little paper. She read it and when she was done she just looked at me.
She turned her head so her neck cracked and told me that what I was doing was pointless and if all the women who had abortions didn't the world would be over populated.
I wrote on a little not to her that every baby who is aborted is so cruelly treated and even if they live.... they are jsut left alone to die.
I showed her the video on her computer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA&feature=related WARNING: this video might make you cry.) And she told me she didn't care and what did I expect her to do change her mind?. I started to cry and she told me to go back to class.
Only someone without a heart cannot care about these poor children. I'm only 13 and I care more than anything about this.

-- Mahala Owens

**************************

to Amanda Allen:

I already wrote one response to your question below, but I wanted to add something else. Don't feel like being a virgin somehow disqualifies you from being able to talk about pregnancy or abortion to others. Anyone can learn about the facts of pregnancy and abortion and what it does to women and to babies and share that information with others.

I realize that some immature people in highschool mistakenly use their sexual activity to make themselves feel self-important, as if they are so much older wiser and more "experienced" than everyone else who are virgins. But the truth is that losing your virginity does not automatically fill you with any kind of knowledge about abortion or pregnacy. In fact, some of the people the most ignorant about abortion are the ones facing them. And some of the people the most informed about the issues are celibate! I personally was a virgin until I was married three years ago, and since then I have experienced pregnancy, and none of that has changed my pro-life views. I've always been very informed and very pro-life.

But I wanted to let you know that if the person you were talking to is hung up on the idea that "you can't speak from experience", then you can appeal to the highest form of experience on abortion: the testimonies of women who have gone through it. You can easily go to http://feministsforlife.org/ or http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/ and print out some actual testimnoies written by women who have suffered from abortions and describe what it was like and how they felt, and you can print those out and give them to that person who talked to you next time you see them. That will shut them up, because they won't be able to refute the testimonies from those women.

Also, if you have other questions, feel free to email me at kaylahealey@prodigy.net, because I think this website should be used mostly for comments, not discussions.

-- Kayla J.

**************************

I went to school with the tape and everything but my teacher told me to take it off.
I told her no and she asked what it was for and i gave her the paper with all the information about it.
My teacher started crying and said that if I hadn't have been there that day with the tape she would have killed the baby she was pregnant with.
Dude I saved a baby.
That feels so incredibly amazing it's like whoaa. And I got 6 of my other friends to wear the tape with me.
We told everyone about it and all the teachers told us to take it off but we said no. We got 3 days ISS but who cares! I saved a baby ^^

-- Mahala

**************************

Our "Teens For Christ" participated and had more good stories to share than bad. Several students wanted to know how they could be part of standing up for Pro Life. Others ask about our point of view and why were wearing the type. One teacher said, "I wish they wouldn't cover thier mouth, they need to SPEAK up about Pro Life....not be silent.

-- Jacqui Boy

**************************

This is the year I actually did this and it was the best thing I have ever done. I was the only one in my intire school who knew and participated inthe day of silence. I had many people ask me what was on my face for I wrote "Life" in red on my cheek. I showed them a piece of paper and some said "Ah..." or "I wish I knew about this!"
I was made fun of in a few classes but I stood my ground and didn't speak. I felt so ignored and unhappy. But I had a realization of things, even though I felt ignored, I have found out what those poor babies feel like whenever their mothers ignore and don't care about them. I'm pretty sure that if they had a voice they would choose to live...sadly, they don't...and their lives are sometimes at the end because the mother doesn't want them.
I felt really good after I got home. I recruted a few people for next year and I paved the way for the next generation to continue it even after I'm gone. I will participate next year, this time getting some red tape to put over my mouth.
I had a red fabric for a wrist band that had "Life" writen on it and a red fabric bow that had "Pro" on opposite sides and "Life" on the other sides.
I'm so glad that I had so many friends that wanted to know about this event and I promised to let them know for next year. I believe is a better cause then anything that could be debated about.
~Proud to be Pro-Life~

-- Jessica

**************************

Most of you know by now that today is a national Silent Solidarity which some friends, fellow students and I participated in.

The day started it out fine, helping friends place the tape over their mouths and reminding them to try and remain silent and if any trouble came their way to come get me because I had all the legal information to show that we had the right to participate in this silent protest.

First my Principal asked me what my cause was and I proceeded to show him a flier and he said that we could continue but if asked to remove the tape we should and that we could remain silent. So we went with the 'OK' to our home rooms. Right before our homeroom time was up (10 minutes) our teachers received E-mails from our Vice Principal saying that we all had to remove the tape from our mouths. Having all our legal information, I went straight to the Principal to talk to him. He told me that we could wear armbands but the tape was too distracting for our MEAP (state testing) period. I later found out how easy i got off.

A close friend of mine, Bri Vanderveen, went through a lot after her home room teacher read the E-mail. Her teacher asked her to remove the tape because it "did not have administrative approval" and was "a health hazard." The entire time Bri was attempting to explain to her teacher that she had approval from the Principal. Of course this was very difficult because she was refusing to speak and only had two friends speaking for her. Bri then consented to take the tape off and put it on her shirt.

This was not ideal for either of us and so we came up with the idea to make wrist bands. How did we do this? Well, luckily, I brought an extra shirt to school and so I switched them quickly and, after the first half of MEAP testing, Cassidy Carnill and I cut up the red shirt I had previously been wearing and, during a break, we passed out the newly-made wrist bands. That part was easy. After meeting up with my friends, one of them (Melanie Edwards) pulled me aside and showed me a letter that she had written for the Principal and Vice Principal. I truly wish I could copy it down here but that would make this way too long.

So, by now, our break period was over and we were starting to make our way back to classes. Bri (who had put the tape back on her mouth thinking it was now not a distraction because we were on a break from testing) was pulled over by a teacher (who shall remain nameless) and told she had two choices: either pull off the tape or be taken to the office (which meant possible suspension). After a moment of thought, Bri removed the tape from her mouth and remained silent. This teacher proceeded to ask her for her name. Of course she could not answer, so a friend answered for her and this teacher yelled to the girl "I didn't ask you! I want to hear it from her!" So Bri quietly said her name, not wanting trouble. The teacher informed her, now that she had put the tape back on her mouth after being told (by the home room teacher) to take it off, that he would give her name to the Vice Principal and if she was caught with it on again she could be suspended.

Those were our only major issues with the Teachers and Principals. But the students were very immature about our protest. Of course there were some extremely nice and respectful students who asked what our cause was and we responded with a flier. But there were students (mostly boys) who taunted and teased protesters and some students stole our roll of tape and proceeded to write "NO LIFE" on the tape and placed it on their shirts.

So, today was somewhat of a challenge but I, for one, look forward to next year and the year after and, of course, March-4-Life in January in DC!!!!!

-- Caitlin Tanner

**************************

Several memebers and supporters of B'ville Booking joined together in front of the court house in Barbourville, Ky in support of Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. We had a wonder time and tons of possitive feedback. One girl also changed from Pro-abortion to Pro-life because of what she saw us doing!
*B'ville Booking is a non-profit booking agency that books christian rock bands.

-- B'Ville Booking

**************************

Well, I have been doing Silent Day for three years. It's been very uplifting to me because I feel secure with the babies. This year was amazingly different. Two guys wondered what I was doing and I handed them one of the fliers to explain and they were supportive and consoling. It amazed me that two buff, "cool" guys were so concerned about abortion. The look in their eyes said it all. So, just now I got a text from my sister with a picture of her at school on Silent Day. She lives 900 miles away with my dad so I don't see her. Well this is her exact text: "Pro-Life: I started it last year at my school and this year people made shirts and I brought red duct tape and ribbons. Over half the people in the school participated. The cheerleaders duct taped their mouths and put ribbons on their hair. Even the football players were supportive. There was hardly a person at school who did not have red duct tape with the words Pro-Life. Everyone took this day seriously, it was one of the quietest days of the entire school year." I loved hearing from her. I told her I wished I was there to share it with her and she replied with "I miss you and you know this all started with you right?? You're the one that got me started. I couldn't have done it without you." That was an amazing feeling to know that I had such a big impact on my sister's life to support Pro-Lie and Silent Day that I started a chain reaction to AT LEAST 200 High School students in Clearlake, CA. We're on our way to end the abortion holocaust. Praise God!

-- Jodi Papagni

**************************

Silent Day was a success over here. I wore the red tape on my arms because we couldn't wear it on our mouths. A lot of people asked me about them and I handed out a lot of fliers. I had maybe one left by the end of the day. A lot of students had a "Holy ****" response after reading it. It just shows how much people don't know. My college professor wrote that she appreciated what I was doing on the top of me essay, one of my high school teachers thought what I was doing was cool, one respected it but was saying how wrong it was, and one tried to tickle me to get me to talk. That last teacher could pass as Peter Griffin, so he's forgiven. All my pro-choice friends respected me, and some people I didn't know asked me for tape. The only negative really was some girl yelling at the teacher who was trying to get me to make noise, then when she found out what I was silent for she said "Oh, nevermind, make him make noise." I only spoke twice times, once to get into the high school after my college class, that couldn't be avoided, and once to say "Sorry" after I hurt my friend poking a bruise. All in all I thought it was a successful day.

-- Zeffy Niles

**************************

Well. I wore my shirt and had a lot of people look at it an just nod, which is their nice way of saying "I have different views on that, that I won't go into." I had one girl look at it and she said "That makes me sad." When I got to spanish this kid was like "Let me see your shirt... What? You don't think abortion is fine? What's wrong with abortion." I swear, my heart just kind of died when he said that.. It kills me to know that people don't know that it's murder. Then the kid turns to his friend and was like "What are your opinions?" and his friend said "Well, I think it's ok in certain circumstances... like if a girl got raped." He was on a better road than the other kid, but still not fully there. When he said the thing about rape I started to shake my head because even if I got raped I would keep that child. Then they started to really pick on me. One of them was like "What are the colors on the American Flag? OH WAIT, SHE DOESN'T KNOW." It really started to upset me and I started crying and left the room and the other kid was like "bye" when I left. And when I got into the bathroom I was heading into the stall to get some toilet paper to wipe my eyes and one girl that was looking in the mirror turned to me and was like, "Hey, are you ok?" and I came out and shook yes.. considering I couldn't really talk about it. Then my friend ended up coming in the bathroom and she was like "are you ok..?" and I shook no. and she told me that I could talk about it later with her, which really helped me.

I just wish that everyone in this world would understand that abortion is wrong under ANY circumstances. I wish that people would stop being so arrogant and learn why they are wrong. I have faith that we can change for the good reasons...

Jesus,
The innocent are beautiful.
Let's keep them alive.
Amen.

-- Jill

**************************

This was my 1st Participation and although I slipped (I blurted a sentence out to my mom without thinking), It was a good experience.
Obviously I didn't do the best, and because I'm a stay at home mom, the only people who physically experienced my silence today was my daughter, mom, and mail lady - although many others KNEW what I was doing from facebook/myspace.
I thought it would be hard not to talk to my less than 2 yr old and decided she would be the exception but I didn't have a problem, I still played with her and hugged n kissed her without talking and I don't think she even realized I hadn't been talking all day.

All in all, my first was ok - hopefully next year i can spread my silence to more people.

-- Amanda L

**************************

As president of the pro-life club at my university, I announced this event to the club. Only a few people seemed interested so I was disappointed that it wasn't going to be that big on an event. HOWEVER 15 people showed up in the morning to get red duct tape.
If that wasn't exciting enough, the pro-choice people on campus chose TODAY to have a protest in order to protest an event that we had held about a month ago. Because we were all wearing pro-life shirts and matching red duct tape we were in the PERFECT position to silently protest the pro-choice protest!! They couldn't have picked a better day!!
-Steph

-- smd5202@psu.edu

**************************

I haven't read all the stories, but I do think mine might be alittle different. I'm 18 years old, and I am a christian. But a few years ago, I had backslidden. I ended up having a miscarriage, before I even knew I was pregnant. The guy was not there for me, I was helpless, I had no one to tell.
I came back to Christ, and started rebuilding our relationship. The pain was still there, so much that I would cry just seeing a little kid at the mall. I've dealt with this for over a year, I prayed for the pain to go away, but always felt like if I let go, I would be a terrible person. Looking through the pictures of last year, I saw ones of children with tape over their mouths, and I began to cry. Then I realized, letting go doesn't mean forgetting her.
Once I got past that, I began the "Why God?" stage. I was in sin, but came back&Romans 8:28 tells me "All things work for good for those who love God and are called according to His purpose". Abortion to me, is the biggest issue out there. Going through what I did, I can talk to women in that want to have one, and tell them what it is going to feel like. Even though I haven't had one, the pain of losing a child, is the same. They don't know its going to hurt, until its too late. I can help stop that. And THAT is how this works out. This year not only did I pass out fliers at my college, get made fun of, and supported.
But I also got closure, and am ready to let go, but never forget. God is good, and that "thing" in your stomach is not a thing at all. Its a child, your child. Never take that for granted.

This is for you, Rayn Faith. Mommy loves you.

-- Missy.

**************************

Response to Amanda Allen:

A good follow-up question in the style of the provocation would be: "why should people who are born get to decide it's okay to kill people who are not born yet, because it's not like anyone's asking their permission...?" Besides, pro-choice opinions wouldn't even exsist if the principles had been used against them when they were in the womb.
Specifically about the virgins question, what virgins think about non-virgins has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of abortion at all. Anyone, regardless of their virginity status, can be pro-life. The issue is about the humanity and rights of the unborn child and supporting mothers who need help, not about the experience of how they got pregnant. That person's question to you is silly, because believing that every human being has a right to life has nothing to do with virgins ordering non-virgins around. It's just simply about knowing that humans should respect other humans and not kill innocent people just because we are bigger and more powerful over them and we decide we don't want them for some reason. If we all start living like that (selfishly and without respecting human life), society will disintegrate.

-- Kayla J.

**************************

This day was actually really fun. I had to mouth everythkong I was "saying" and everyone asked why I wasn't tallking and my friend Jessica told them why. This was a very exciting event and I had so much fun. I recommend it to anyone who wants to have a good time and help change another's mind about abortion. I will most definitely do it again.

-- Bryanne Carter

**************************

I walked into the school wearing tape on my lips.

People stared.

My friends walked over. "What's the tape for?", they queried.

I handed them a flier. Their faces turned from happy, joking,smiling faces, to absolute disbelieve. "That's really happening?" I nodded. They all agreed that the abortion was terrible. They told me that they would do silent day next year.

I got through to them! Thank You God!!!

-- Darian

**************************

Most people were friendly this year. I was in walmart handing out fliers to people passing me. One guy was to my side and started wistling loud like he was trying to act casual. I handed him a flier and he acted suprised but i knew he was trying to get my attention. Serveral other people through out the day were very open when asking me what i was doing. it was encouraging to know people would give me a chance to hand them a flier.

-- Carmen Garcia

**************************

I got two of my friends to join me at school! Life is so precious! We should never take it for granted. I think doing this is so important. It really helps us to realize how lucky we are to have a voice.

-- Jenny

**************************

Today was my 2nd year to do be silent for those who don't have been silenced. Last year I had practically everyone I saw ask me questions about it. This year a lot of people critized me and were really immature about it. However, I didn't let that bother me because I'm not gonna let people burst my bubble on something I strongly believe in. Also in my World History class we had a huge debate about abortions and why I was being silent. LOL I did a whole lot of writing, but that doesn't bug me when its for a great cause. I can't wait to do this again next year. I have already registered so hopefully when this time comes along next year I'll be in college.
God Bless
Ashlynn T.
Pro-Life 4 ever!!!!

-- Ashlynn Talbott

**************************

This was my first year participating in the Pro-Life Day of Silence. I had the "LIFE" tape on my mouth and I put a long strip of tape going diagonally on my shirt and it said "1/3 of our generation has been KILLED against their wills." My day went well and I had a great time doing it. I really didn't have problems with other pro-choice kids. Most people who were against the cause respectfully disagreed and I was thankful for that. About 90% of the responses I got were in agreement with me. I got so many responses like "Your Awesome!" and "Go You!" I didn't have any problems with teachers or any other adminstrators. I live in a conservative area so that may be why things went so well for me. I got so many people to join in on the cause and I plan on making it bigger and better next year. I encourage everybody to do this. You really get an appreciation for the little things in life that so many children never even get the chance to experience. I had great success and got people thinking and talking about abortion which was my goal. I want to thank everybody who participated! I'm confident we can put an end to this madness if we stick together and keep peacefully protesting. Everybody keep praying for an end to abortion!!!

-- Ricky S.

**************************

I'm so glad to read everyone else's testimonies. I am very pro-life, and I acutally have a unique opportunity to be a witness to others because I am pregnant myself. Today I made my own flyers that showed picture of my unborn baby and told about its developmental level. I also listed some resources for those who might be in a difficult pregnancy and need help, and for those who might be suffering from post-abortion trauma and need hope and healing.

On my college campus I was disappointed because people are more or less apathetic and very few people asked me about the tape. I never saw anyone else wearing tape, either, so I felt kind of like the lone ranger in the Silent Day campaign, even though I heard that there were a couple other duct-taped people on campus that had been "sighted" today. So it is good seeing the positive feedback here on the site!

So many people took my flyer and gave it back without reading it, assuming that they knew what it said, and some people who did read it gave it back and told me "I already have one of these" which is impossible!! I didn't see very much happen as a result of my witnessing...nothing dramatic like some of you others out there! But I know that my example and my prayers were another drop in the bucket and every drop makes a difference.

The main things I did today were: encouraging other pro-lifers, drawing out a lot of other pro-lifers, meeting new pro-lifers, praying for babies, and thinking about how hard it is to have no voice for a day. I felt bad when people wouldn't ask, even when they knew me and even talked to me, because I thought it was SO obvious and I wanted the chance to hand out my flyers!

I wasn't harrassed by anyone, and at the end of the day I just started handing out my flyers to everyone without them asking because I didn't want them to go for nothing!

But all you highschool kids who live in these micro-environments of drama and interaction, congratulations, and I'm excited for you, because the greater the interaction and harrassment you got, the greater was the good you did. Keep up the good work, and thank God for all the lives saved today!!

-- Kayla J

**************************

I go to Liberty High School in Henderson, NV. I single-handedly started the Pro-Life demonstration at my school. A few weeks ago, I got some of my friends interested in the idea and we decided to carry it out. Throughout the day, I was questioned in class about why I was being silent and gladly passed around my flyers, letting the rude and immature kids' comments roll off my shoulders. Several kids asked me for some of the red duct tape i brought to school, which made me even more excited. I felt like I really made a difference, despite the negative attention I got from the less mature kids. Never in my life have I been so excited to be silent.

-- Adrian Fune

**************************

I walked around Silent all day, and some of my teachers really respected that I was standing up for something. Many students would amazed, knowing they couldn't stay silent for a whole day.

It was extremely fun to stand up for those who don't have a voice. I hope I changed at least one persons stand on the matter. :]

-- Kristin Sanders

**************************

If killing a pregnant woman is a double homicide, why isn't abortion considered murder?
I AM prolife.

-- summer m

**************************

i think that every baby is put on this earth for a reason who are we to deny them

-- Maritza Vargas

**************************

I went through the whole day being silent. I had red duct tape over my mouth with "LIFE" written on it. people asked me why and I just handed them a handout. Mostly everybody said "Wow, I didn't know that, thanks". It made me feel good to spread the word.

-- Cory Yeung

**************************

Me and my cousins were so close to having a silent protest infront of a woman's center this morning but their parents were being retarted and I dont know any other home schoolers that would protest with me, but I believe I did a good sacrifice for the babies that never will have a voice. Next year I'm going all out =-).

-- Jasper Caiazza

**************************

Im in college and I may have been the only person in the beginning of the day. on the 19th i put up about 11 fliers advertising the day with links. Tuesdays are my long days (10am to 9pm) so i was there all day. The first thing I did was check to see how many fliers were torn down. 4. I didn't mind, all that told me was that people were reading them. ( I had more people say 'oh that's you with the fliers')

My first class was great. Its my largest with about 80 people. (I emailed all my teachers the day before to let them know that I would be silent.) But my teacher was very supportive. Someone asked him whats up with the tape because my teacher wanted to wear some. So he explained everything for me for about 15mins. So that's 80 people spoken to and 7 of them asked me for tape. In that class the teacher asked me to talk about it the next class period, so I will be doing that Thursday.

My second class I gave the teacher a flier and people saw me and stared but no one asked me anything.

Then I had spanish conversation. Where we are supposed to work on speaking spanish. Its just me, a girl and the student instructor. We had a good laugh at the irony. And the girl did all the speaking and I listened. I'm sure i'll make it up next time.

My fourth class my teacher wanted some tape too as well as 2 other students and I passed out a few fliers. I'm pretty sure it hit this one girl pretty hard. And the teacher announced what I was doing and encouraged people to read the flier. That's about another 15 people. Plus all the people that saw me and read the fliers and also all those people who told their friends.

Some people ripped down the fliers, some people laughed at me, some stared, some thanked me and others told me stories. But I'm grateful for every single one because that's one more person the word is spread to. That's how I learned about it after all

-- Aaron S

**************************

i am an abortion survivor. i just found out around december of last year. this day means so much to me.

-- kngo

**************************

Today was just a because it was my first year participating in this event, and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to really make an impact. Although as far as I know I was the ONLY student at my high school school of 2000+ to participate in this event, I felt secure in my knowledge that I was not alone- There were thousands of students all over the world with me.

I'm also very proud of my two middle-school brothers for participating and getting quite a few people to join in, even though they got harassed much, much more than I did, by other students, teachers, and administrators. On the other hand, all of my teachers were very accepting even if they don't understand my viewpoint, and the administrators at my school were fine with it as well. Even with the students, the worst that happened to was one girl in my first period who got quite worked up over the flier that I gave her because she's so pro-choice and gave it back to me; However, another girl spoke up for me, telling her that she had no right to get mad at me for sticking up for what I believe in. That was great. I did have another student try to give me back my flier, and one of my guy friends even ripped his up, but that was pretty much it. In a way, I was disappointed by this, since I didn't really get much of a chance to argue for my beliefs. I'm hoping that I've done enough to spark some debates over the next few days.

Today I also carried around and read the family copy of You Reject Them, You Reject Me: The Prison Letter of Joan Andrews, and I felt like this really gave me strength, reading about all she went through to face down the evils of abortion. For anyone who hasn't read the book, I strongly recommend it. I find it hugely inspirational and always have.

I was a little depressed by the fact that my pro-life best friend bailed on me just a week or two ago, even though we'd been planning to do this together for months and months. However, I didn't feel like I could actually make her, since this has to be a decision that she makes for herself. My sister refused to participate right from the start, not wanting to stand out and this jeopardize her popularity- I guess this is a perk of being unpopular in the first place.

Overall I had a great time, and I'm really looking forward to this next year. It's also a bonus that I know for sure I won't be the only one in my school next year, since my brother will be a freshman! God bless!

-- Beatrice Brenner

**************************

Today was amazing. I was very suprised at how many people at my school were interested in what I was doing. I had my flyers with me and I was suprised because a lot of people asked me for a flyer and wanted to know what was going on and I gave them the WHY I AM SILENT flyer and the DEVELOPMENT FACTS flyer. It went well. My best friend Erica and I made shirts the night before. We put a lot of effort into them. People came up to me throughout the day wanting to read my shirt and I had many people tell me that they want to do that next year and that they agreed with what I was doing and stuff. It was awesome. I'll be in College next year, but I'm still going to do it. It was an overall great experience. It was hard for me not to talk, but I managed. One of my teachers was very encouraging and supportive of it. I walked around very proud of what I am standing on behalf of. <3

-- Marlene Bennett

**************************

Because of my silence today my friend had a reason to talk to her son about being prolife he is 11 years old. And he is now prolife!

-- Karen

**************************

Today, even though a lot of people had no idea that this event was happening, as soon as they saw me doing it and as I passed out the flyers, they joined me, nodded, and said, "Thank you."

Making even a small change, and realization for people is satisfying enough.

-- Cyrus Tolentino

**************************

Today was crazy...we made t-shirt for everyone...we had 25 people to start with in the morning. Before school started people were asking questions and wanting to participate. I was surprisd to see how many more people wanted to do this so we had over 50 people in duck tape passing out fliers and being silent for the day. It was awesome to see people in the hallways creating awareness and representing this cause. We did have some rude & hateful people to contend with but we made it! I'm so happy I got this oppertunity to do this and I will do this next year. Thank you so much and if you have anything else or need any help getting the word out just call me at 214 918 0768. I know I made a difference in my school and planted seeds along with the other participants. I know we are saving lives!

-- Blakelyn Norwood

**************************

3 out of 400 kids in my school participated! we reached kids. because so many stopped to talk to us about it! god was on our side.

-- Libby

**************************

If your Pro-Choice, where's the baby's choice??

-- Justin Wilder

**************************

I was asked a difficult question today and have no idea how to answer it..."why should virgens be able to decide what is right for people who are no longer virgen its not like the have had the expirence..."
any ideas on how to approach this?

-- Amanda Allen

**************************

Today there had to be so many people that stared at me. There was this man on the bus that was just creepy and I gave out so many fliers. I know that the people that I talked to four of them said before if they got pregnant they had plans so they would have an abortion and since I talked to them they said they wouldn't go through with it anymore. I was glad that I had it through the day since I was getting harassed by some people for it. But I wasn't going to let those people get to me.

-- Alana

**************************

our school does this every year on October 20th we hand out red tape, and every student who participates wears tape and a red shirt for the entire day its an amazing experience. we gave up one entire day of our voices not being heard for the little babies not being heard. Be seen not heard, for at least one day.

-- alexa:)

**************************

I got so much crap when i did this. People were telling me that it's just so stupid and pointless and I'm not making a difference. They would reach up and try to take my tape off. And when I would take the tape off for lunch or something, they would hit me or try to scare me to get me to talk. Alot of people decided to just try it to just see if they could make it a day without talking, but they only lasted like 3 minutes. And they kinda bugged me too because they made it a competition, I wouldn't mind if they really cared about the cause. I even gave some red tape to a couple of friends. And the worst thing was, when someone did talk, they would start saying that they're killing babies. That made me so mad. I just kept telling myself "If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. I'm standing up for something i have a passion for" But no one understood. They kept saying how stupid it was because being silent isn't going to change anything.. Obviously I made a difference because people noticed, the school noticed. Last year, i was the only one who did it. This year, there were some new people and now the school is thinking of making it a special day for our school, but I just can't believe the way I was treated. And the thing is, I go to a christian school. Even teachers tried to make me talk. But I'm definitely doing it next year..

-- Hannah

**************************

When I got to school this morning, everyone participating was gathered around a small table with a roll of red tape and a black sharpie. We each had a stack of flyers and most people had red arm bands. A couple of us even had red clothing.
When we were applying the tape, one guy asked for a piece, and we gave it to him because we thought he wanted to participate. Instead, he wrote choice on it and stuck it to his shirt. Later he tried to stick it to my shirt, and I moved away.
Some people were very cool about it, and a lot even openly supported us. Others, however, taunted and teased us. I was asked many times to speak and I simply shook my head no. We removed our tape to eat at lunch and people called us cheaters, but we never said a word. Only one teacher asked me to remove it, which pleased me, but I didn't speak at all in her class either.
It was hard to just sit there and take the rudeness, and the harsh stares, but it was well worth it when others told me good job, or awesome cause, or even helped me pass out flyers. I took off my tape after school and was extremely pleased with myself, my classmates, and the wonderful feeling in my heart.

-- Claire Landry

**************************

Hey pro-lifers. I just want to tell you about my experience today with my duct tape and the word life. Many people in my school like almost half of the eight graders participated in the event. People contiously asked me for tape since I had a whole roll of redtape. By almost the end of the day the whole roll was almost gone. But I encountered a few problems with my Pro-life day of Silent solidarity. First, about three boys made prochoice after they saw many people were prolife,but that's there choice so I had nothing against it. Second, my history yelled t me and told me to take my tape off(she's prochoice) and she told me after class it's because I'm not giving a chnce for other people to express their feelings and I'm like no one is stoping them. And the last one was when my 7th period teacher told everyone with red tape on their mouth to take it off and I refused.so he said I could either take it off or go to the office. My friends told me to just take it off, but inside of me I was gonna fight for why I believe in. And my two grey friends supported me and told me fight for what you believe in. So I went to the office and there I talkedto the principal. She was very nice,caring and understanding. She understood my situation and was very east to talk to. She told me I could wear it but when it's class discussion then I should talk and I was willig to do that. I'm so glad that I got the courage to stand up for my beliefs. Thank you God, I love you so very much. You were by my side today and will always be there for me. And I hope my experience will help inspire other people to stand up in why you believe.there's no need to be afraid. God is always there. And oh, I'm 13. Hope that epps if your older. It doesn't matter what age,size or how small your defense can be. You can overcome big things with strong faith in what you believe in.

-- My Mai

**************************

Today was the first time i ever participated in the day of silence. In my school only about four kids, including me, were silent. At least to my knowledge. People asked why i wasn't speaking, and i showed them the flier. No one asked to join in the cause. Some made fun of me for being quiet - especially since i wouldn't talk back. One kid actually stomped on my foot because he wanted me to talk so badly. But i didn't speak, because i believe all children deserve to live. Aborting a baby is taking away a life. That baby will never laugh, will never cry, will never be able to hug someone. They will never get all the experiences we are lucky enough to have. It isn't right, and it surprised me how many people i know are for abortion, or who just don't care. It's actually pretty dicouraging. I don't know if i made a difference at all today, but i know i'll be doing it again next year, and the year after that, because i believe everyone deserves a chance to live. And whether i'm supported or ridiculed, it doesn't matter.

I gave up my voice today, and i won't forget about the millions of children who will never speak because of abortion. The millions of children who may have changed the world... but who never got the chance. Our silence speaks much louder than our words ever could. If our silence saves just one life, i think it's worth it. We can't save them all. We probably can't even save most of them. But every life saved matters.

Can't wait for next year. I'm definitely gonna be more prepared, post fliers around the school, and let everyone know what's going on.

-- Nicole

**************************

To all who participate.

It means alot to me that all of you are completely devout to this. In a sense I love you all. I ask that we give good will for those who have a narrow field of mind. Im not talking about those who are pro-choice, I am talking about those who judge us because we believe in something. Just today I got more insults in my life because I had a piece of duct tape over my mouth. Live by this code and the world could be a better place. Honor your beliefs and respect the beliefs of others.

-- Colin Mahoney

**************************

today at my school a loty of girls have taken part in the pro life day i have not talked yet and will not talk until tomorrow i hope a lot more peole take a part in this

-- alyssa

**************************

So I stayed silent all of today. I did this also my senior year of highschool but remembered too late last year. I went to my math class, denny's, k-mart, Jamba Juice, walmart, and planned parenthood today. I was surprised more people didn't ask, but I did have a few questions. At Jamba Juice three men asked me what I was doing, and they were very thrilled to hear that I was protesting abortion, but they said since I was being silent they'd shout it out for me. That made me happy. At K-mart the girl at the cash register was very supportive, and I had a few other people ask questions. I also went to planned parenthood with a group of seniors from my old high school Northwest Christian. My old bible teacher was there and some of my friends. We sat out front and prayed. It was great. I really had some great experiences today. I'm so excited for next year. I wish this was done more than once a year!

-- Chrissy

**************************

Today went very well. We had many people do the day of silence, some slipped up on a few words. I for one, had an English Project to present today and chose not to talk for it, Praise God that I had two members in my group that were not participating. I had many people try to get me to talk too. That was probably the hardest part, but we all did really well. There was one case of a boy in my french class who said he was pro-choice because of rape, in that sense, a friend of mine and I calmly wrote down to him why we are both strongly pro-life. I do know that we definitely got our point across in our school. Many people came up to me, or pointed at me saying, "You're one of those people that aren't talking right?" It made me feel good, because at least people were taking notice. All in all, 2009 being my first "Day of Silence", I would say it went exceptionally well. I know I plan to do it again next year, along with many new people that just found out about it this year. As for saving any babies, I do not know if anyone in my classes is pregnant, most likely not, but I know that many of my classmates and I were earnestly praying for all the little children lives and if just one baby somewhere on this earth was given a chance at life, it was well worth the odd stares, taunts, gibes, and mockery that I and my fellow classmates experienced today. =) I <3 babies!

-- Emily

**************************

Hey you wonderful pro-lifers!
Today my sister, cousin and I participated in the Pro-Life Day! I actually brought up this protest last year and everything went very well! I have since then started a Pro-Life Club "Generations for Life" at my charter school and I had most everyone from it participate today. Now, I attend a charter school and my headmaster said that it would be a strict violation of the dress code if we wore the duct tape so we were not permitted to wear it. Also, he said that we HAD to participate in classes if called on which I believe defeats the entire purpose of the day. But any-who, I made an announcement yesterday on the intercom and we had a meeting to discuss what it was all about.
There is something strange about sophomore boys...they all think that protests are competitions.. apparently I'm the winner?? But what they fail to understand is that life is a gift.. there is no greater gift than life itself..period. end of question. So today, I was late for homeroom because I was taping people up. When I entered into the classroom, to my dismay, there were a couple boys that were wearing blue tape with "Choice" written on in and "Team Choice" on their backs. But first period was a breeze, my teacher supported me, second, a bit tougher, third was chemistry and my teacher kept reassuring us that we HAD to talk if called on but I refused. Next was Latin. Now my Latin teacher is very strict and he is also the academic dean so there is no making him mad..but I still didn't talk. Lunch was pretty easy thought the same boys with the blue tape tried to steal my red tape away. GRR! In my English class, my teacher just gave us a prompt about TV or something so we wrote the whole day. And Art History teacher is the sponsor for GFL so she was fine with it. My drama class was last and my teachers got annoyed but what do I care?? Im doing this for babies! Anyways, my brother took us to Wal-Mart after school and while at the dressing rooms with my sister and cousin, I turned around and there were about 20 people standing still, looking at us and some were laughing. Oh well.. But then I saw one of my friends who was in a football accident and I mouthed some words to him but never actually talked. I slipped twice but I have been going strong since 4 o'clock. So the turn-out was good. Most people just wore the bands and talked anyway but if you are a supporter, I guess that's better than nothing!
Congrats to everyone who made it today and can't wait till next year!! :)

-- Olivia N.

**************************

I handed out around 40 fliers at my small community college... each time, the people smiled, nodded, or gave me a thumbs up. Even though I don't have a huge, incredible story of a girl deciding not to abort, I feel like I had a successful day.

-- Alyssa

**************************

On Tuesday me and 2 of my friends went to the malls, and to the University (UTEP) and passed out 2400 fliers. We had so much fun doing this, even though we got kicked out of one of the malls. and we are from El paso, TX.

-- Christopher Montoya

**************************

I did it! :D i achieved Pro Life Day of Silent Soldidarity 09. I was so glad I found this website before it happened. I bough duct tape for it and everything. I passed out fliers (home made) and gave tape to some of my friends who I knew would be dedicated to this. I'm not going to lie, I did mumble a few times, but I had to stop and think about why I did this. I even had a little baby doll with me with the piece of tape over her mouth saying "LIFE" and another one on her chest saying "I SUPPORT PRO-LIFE!" :] It was great and I was happy to see I wasn't the only one doing it in my school. Next time, it will be better because I'll pass out things a week beforehand and get a lot of people active. SAVE THE BABIES!

-- Abby S.

**************************

This day has been an eye opener. It all started off yesterday when I was hanging posters around my campus and I was in the fine arts center. My band director came up to me and proceeded to tell me that as a baby, he was almost aborted because his mother was "too old to have a baby and already had six children". He was so happy I was doing this. That really affected me because he has made a big impact on my life and I am so happy that he was not aborted. Then came today. I ran my cross country practice in the morning, and let me tell you. (I love to talk) it was so hard not to talk! But I made it through. A couple of jokes were made such as "wow I wish she was like this every day!" or "well i dont really believe that but whatever". My coach however said he was happy I was doing that because although he wasn't necessarily saying he was pro life or choice he doesnt believe that abortions are right. That encouraged me. My first class was okay, I just had an easy test and then got to go work our table in the middle campus. our pro-life club here on campus set up two tables in one of the eating areas called 'the cage'. We had wristbands, duct tape, and posters and non graphic non violent displays! Lots of people stopped to look and several came up to get armbands or duct tape. We had a lot of people looking that was for sure. Our display I think affected people too. It was of what the baby in the womb looks like and weighs like. (There is a picture posted with this of our display). It was really cool! One of the girls in our group I know got into a heavy discussion about abortion with someone but I don't have all the details. Just pray that it affected the person! When I ordered my food I took up a flier with me and gave it to the lady. She smiled and took it. After two hours of working the table my second class was band. Although I took the tape off to play, I put another piece on the front of me and taped the why i am silent to my shirt. Afterwards another girl expressed her interest in it and I gave her my armband that I had been wearing. She was very grateful and spent the rest of the day not talking. My band director came up and hugged me afterwards and said thankyou. It made me realize what a blessing life is to him. It is our homecoming week here and so I was working a booth for our volunteer club. It was a great way to spread the cause! Since I couldnt talk I had lots of posters about the club and also I had pro life things taped to me! I successfully made it through many cake walks without talking! I'm headed off to bible study now and will probably end the day there (because I want to be able to discuss God's work actually! :) ) but this day has just made me realize what a blessing it is to be alive. It was so hard not to talk, and I realized that if I hadn't been born, I would never have gotten the chance to talk! Thankyou for doing this day, and everyone around the nation THANKYOU SO MUCH. It means a lot to people and I'm sure today saved some lives whether we know it or not. God bless everyone! Have a great finish to the day! -Alicia

-- Alicia Zimmerman

**************************

I started doing pro-life day of silent solidarity last year in eighth grade and I knew I wanted to do it again this year. I think it's inspiring and if you change someone's mind about killing their baby, that's a pretty big thing.

Pro-life!!!=)))

-- jessica

**************************

i am all about stoping abortion,i think it is complety wrong i cant stand the thought of it...i have been silent all day and standing up for the ones that were silenced forever..in doing this and passing out fliers geting people informed i was aproched by a group of people yelling at me saying its a choice not a legan discusioni just handed them a flier and walked away then all of a sudden i fel a a fist hit the back of my head and then next thing i new i was on the ground passes out fliers spread everywere..and people standing all around the people that aproched me yelled at me said i was the devil i was not a child of god that my parents should have aborted me...in steed of fighting back i did the right thing and walked away head held high and standing up for what i belive in...and to my amazment when i looked bak i had a crowed of about 100 people walkign be hind me suposrting me....it was the best feling in the world..and when i got home today my father was mad that i had stood up for this and all i could do was shake my head and hand him a flier ....even thou people got mad beat me up and ever told me i was the devil i no what im doing is the right thing..and i will contiue in this fight...im making a diffrence what are they doing?

-- ally

**************************

LIFE IS PRECIOUS.
bring change with silence.

no child is a mistake.

-- Joy V. Williams

**************************

LIFE IS PRECIOUS.
bring change through silence.

no child is a mistake.

-- Joy V. Williams

**************************

God has blessed us with this oppurtunity! This year at school, for the first time ever that I know of, over 26 people signed up for Silent Day! It was amazing! On a day of silence, so much was heard! Many people asked about abortion! and started doing Silent Day, even in the middle of the day!
Three teachers really supported it! and I think others did as well.
We spoke about abortion at lunch!
With God, babies have hope, we have hope.

-- Rachel Booth

**************************

Being Pro-life just seems second nature to me. Life is beautiful, end of story. BUT not everyone understands that. That's where we come in. With love, compassion, strength, & determination... this silent movement will never cease to bring change. Jesus is alive & he loves us. With his love, we can all begin to realize how precious and outstanding the gift of life really is.

- Joy V. Williams

-- Joy V. Williams

**************************

this is my 2nd year doing silent day. i didnt wear the red tape last year cause i didnt have any but this year i did for a little bit. i didnt have time to print the flyers either so i just wrote down a summary on a piece of paper. my explanation on why is because no baby deserve to get KILLED because the mother wasnt ready. many people had to read that paper. some people made rude comments but i just kept smiling. i did talk during 3rd period though because i had to cause it was theatre arts. but i was silent again in 4th wearing my red tape over my mouth... to be honest, the red tape ia a great way to be silent cause i deff could not talk. 4th period is civics class and my teacher read my paper to the whole class and then visited the site. when 4th period was over a guy came up to me and thanked me for do this. yeah so i got a bunch of stares today but i smiled when i did. because now they have something to think about. my civics teacher said that hes going to talk to me [and the class] about what i did tomorrow and im excited and ready to defend myself and those innocent babies on anyone for thinks its okay to take a life of a child who couldve been president! i am so strongly agaisnt abortion. when someones for it, it makes me want to cry and scream to their face that they are cruel heartless people. i plan on defending those babies tomorrow because i can talk, and people will be asking me about it i guarentee. im going to be super prepared for next year. im really exicited.
<33Emilia

-- Emilia Roy

**************************

Today was absolutely amazing! I didn't stop anyone from getting abortion, but I prayed all day for the women considering one.
It was my first year participating, and I truly can't wait till next year!
It started of as about 20 girls I convinced to do it, but by the end of the day there was about 100 people doing it! I was so happy, and I know this was all possible by the grace of God.
Some people came with pro-choice papers, but everyone thought they were just being obnoxious. One of them even ended up taking hers off!
I am so glad I have found a way to support this AMAZING cause, I totally respect all those who have been persecuted today.

-- Paula

**************************

I've not been pregnant.
But I know that Life is so precious. and valuable.
That I'm willing to give a voice to those who had theirs taken away.

-- Eva

**************************

I went to school today, October 20th, as I normally would, with two exceptions- "LIFE" Duct Tape over my mouth and the determination to stand up for those who no longer had a voice. I arrived at my first period class at 8:20 on the dot, only to find that I would be directly walking back out of the door. My teacher angrily asked me to remove the tape and when I refused, I was sent to the dean. The dean, using the same tone of voice as my teacher, also attempted to force the tape off my face. Once she relized that she would be unsuccessful, she then proceeded to tell me that "It's not worth it". She lowered herself further by calling my father. Over what? For standing up against authority for something I deemed as a noble cause. I was sent home, still wearing that duct tape. A reminder and a promise for those who have gone.

-- Valerie

**************************

I don't really have a story. I do know friends who have gotten pregnant and never thought of abortion, so that's wonderfull. Glad to help.(:

-- Carissa English

**************************

okay...soooo i made my own pro life shirt..its white...and on the front in black and red it says "Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity oct. 20th 2009" and has red boxes that say LIFE in them....on the back its like rainbow colors and pretty and says "4000 babies killed + 4000 emotionally damaged women = OVER 8000 HURT EACH DAY" ...but i didnt wear duct tape....but today was really hard to keep quiet....i actually messed up and talked a couple times....but most of the day i stayed quiet....here's a brief explanation of my day

1st block:
i went in...gave my teacher (i warned all my teachers ahead of time) the why am i silent paper, and sat down....she is really cool..and is against abortion..but not really into the whole silent thing...sooo she was like "IM GONNA BREAK YOUR SILENCE" but she didnt....=D.....one girl came up to me and asked what my shirt was for and my teacher said "pro-life thing" and i shwoed her the flier....and she said "OH THATS TOTALLY AWESOME!" and i felt really good!!....then we read and stuff....and like i raised my hand to comment about something she asked us and my teacher goes "OH WAIT YOU CANT TALK HAHAHAHAHA" and lots of people were confused....so my teacher made me stand up and show my shirt...and i passed around the fliers.....several people said it was relaly cool.....and i was really happy

2nd block
i was happy from 1st block..and people in my second block saw my fliers...and were saying they think its really cool that i am trying to be qiet that they couldnt....one girl said she wanted to do it...but i could tell the purpose wasnt there..she just wanted to get out of talking in class...she tried to be quiet but talked anyways...she didnt care about the abortions happening at all

LUNCH
we were sitting there....and people asked why i wasnt talking...and my friend told them...and i showed them the fliers as well...they were like thats cool....and they would say stuff to me and i would nod yes or no and they said it felt like talking to a brick wall....lol....sad but kinda funny

3rd block was really hard...this was when i messed up....i tried hard not to talk...many people asked why i was silent...but noticed me mess up...some said they like the cause but wouldnt vow to be quiet...3rd block made me feel bad...

4th block
noone cared....some people that didnt see the flier in my first block asked to read it i gave them one...it helped...they thought it was interesting...

but still at the end of the day....i was the only one at my school to do it

-- Shaelen Pansza

**************************

hey the 24 yr old daycare chickadee here again..I forgot to say before that the reason this touches me so much is because i had an abortion at 16. i should have either kept my baby or put him/her up for adoption. but now i have my sweet girl aubrey who is almost 5 years old. i got pregnant with her when i was 19 and only briefly thought to take the same course of action until i realised killing her was not the answer. it would just compound my pain and guilt from before. she is truely a gift from God. and for people who keep running into the "what if the person is raped" i read a good pamphlet that said 'in the only major study of pregnant rape victims ever done, Dr. Mahkorn found that 75 to 85 of such women chose against abortion' same thing with incest victims.. they're even less likely to get an abortion. just fyi.

-and a lot of people dont know 71,000 babies are aborted each year after 16 weeks
-43% of all women who have abortions will have two or more
-half of all abortions are performed on women who use abortion as their only means of birth control.. these things need to be known..

-- sarah allen

**************************

I goto Brandon High School in Brandon, Florida and today an administrator told me to take off the tape on my mouth. I respectfully took it off and then my teacher said I could put it back on. The administrator saw me with the tape on and ordered me to take it off and if I was caught doing it again I'll get suspended. So I took it off and remained silent. I was not happy with what just happend and neither were the others who were ordered to take off the tape on their mouths. I talked to the principle after a whole class period of crying and tried to figure out why I could not represent what I believe in. He said he was never notified about this event but my school is registered to do it. We came to an agreement that we could wear the tape during passing periods and lunch but someone ended up with a referal by the end of the day for not taking off the tape. I find it ridiculous how administration can be and how unfair it is to make students take the tape off their mouths when others paint their whole face for a spirit day or wear ridiculous clothes for "wacky tacky day". I tried to fight for it but there was nothing eles i could do in the end.

-- Molly Buchanan

**************************

On October 20, 2009 I was silent. My fellow students that did not participate gave me hell for what I was doing, I generally speak a lot, and when I was silent all day, it frightened them. My silence was something that is far and inbetween, but this cause is something I truely believe in. My girlfriend and I both had red tape on our mouths, and we walked down the halls with our tape on our mouths, and tape on our jeans stating our voices were for those children today. Our teachers were fine with our silence, as long as notes werent going around, never once did I break my silence. Many of my fellow students asked if they could join in on the cause, even though they were late, lucky for them, I carried tape with me everywhere today. Not only did my school get a wake up call, students got a wake up call. We now know the silence that we take for granted when abortion is the decision. The silence screams for the child that never got to speak. Personally, this meant more to me than anything anyone could ask for. This is a day Brighton High School will continue to remember for years to come.

-- Jennifer Hendricks

**************************

Not talking was hard. I understood the concept of what I was standing up for by being silent but I don't think it really hit home. It wasn't until I was writing a note to my teacher to ask him something and he started to walk away did I really get it. He walked away not knowing I wasn't finished and I banged on the lockers to get his attention but he never turned around. I felt so helpless because there was no way to get his attention. And then I realized these are how babies being aborted must feel; trapped and helpless.

-- Kayla

**************************

my story is simple. i used to be for pro choice. but then my cusins baby died, and i realized how valuable a life is. Now i take a stand. i give my voice for people that never hed theres, im pro-life.

-- betsy

**************************

Latinas for Life. Raising a generation of Latina Abolitionists with a voice to end abortion and speak on behalf of those who dont have a voice.

-- Yvonne Munoz

**************************

Last year, I saw kids around my school with tape over their mouths, and I had no idea what they were doing. When I found out that they were being silent for the pro life movement, I thought it was sort of pointless. I assumed that the best way to raise awareness would be to tell people, and that being silent made no sense. This year, with only a slightly different opinion, I decided to join the maybe two kids on my school campus in their protest of abortion. When I did, I fully grasped the impact of this day. Especially because of my tendency to talk too much, all the time, my silence made a huge impact. Suddenly people who barely knew me where asking questions. The flier was extremely well worded as well. Halfway through reading, they would freak out, and look up from the page, asking how they didn't know what was going on. When they continued, they were almost embarassed that they had never considered abortion to be such a huge problem. They were even tons of other people that became silent for the remainder of the day, and excitedly promised to be more involved from now on. Hopefully they spread the word even more.

-- Kaitlyn Schiess

**************************

I am 100% against Pro Life.
I kept quite all day! & I will do it again
next year. :)

-- Kimberly

**************************

First year of Silent Day(:
Was amazing even though I got a few rude comments.

-- Nikki Gade

**************************

Hey! I'm 24 and I have a home daycare. I went to Revelation Generation and at the concert there was a booth selling Silent Day merchandise. When I bought the t-shirt i didn't really know what this was all about. I found out when i visited the website. I made my own flyer and put it up at all the bus stops on base, and at both chapels. I'm happy to see two local highschools registered. No one asked about what i was doing and it was a pretty quiet day. But maybe I made a defference to someone.. =}

-- Sarah

**************************

today was amazing. many people were taken just by the flyer that explains why i am not talking. they asked to participate and i was overjoyed. thank you so much for this event. i support it every year, and look forward to next year.

-- Christian Locklear

**************************

My name is Anna and i'm a junior at Veribest High school. Its a small school. We have a weekly meeting called FCA on wednesdays during lunch and last week was my week to do the lesson. I did my lesson on this particulat event and how much it has already changed society. I proposed that some of the high schoolers do this silent protest today. Throughout the week people would stop and ask me more detail about the protest i would tell them and some would say that they would do it. Yesterday i had told the ones that wanted to do the protest to meet me in the room that we meet for FCA before school started. When i walked in the room there were at least 15 people in the classroom and thats not including middle school. I almost dropped down to my knees and stared crying, there were maybe 6 people that told me that they were going to do it today. I was amazed. Throughout the day when we walked passed each other we would smile, i felt like we were in some secrete society. It felt good to not only be a part of this Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity but it felt good because i had brought this to a small school who would otherwise not be educated in this subject. I feel amazing and im pretty sure that everyone at my school who participated feels the same way. Hopefully we have opened our President's eyes and changed his mind on whether or not a child is a punishment. Sex is a prayer, a child is the answer to that prayer.

-- Anna

**************************

Today was a great day to show what happens when a life is taken. All day long all my friends, some of my classmates, and I were silent all day. It was hard, because people kept trying to make us talk, but it was well worth it. I am so happy I did this, and I can't wait to do it next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Elena

**************************

today was amazing. many people were taken just by the flyer that explains why i am not talking. they asked to participate and i was overjoyed. thank you so much for this event. i support it every year, and look forward to next year.

-- Christian Locklear

**************************

I couldn't go to school, because I have H1N1, but I did not speak throughout the day. I printed up flyers for my amazing friend who was also participating in this with me. Several of our friends who were going to participate decided instead that they would be 'silent in their minds'--which kind of defeats the purpose, I think, but anyways--and my friend who did remain silent all day was discouraged by this. Also a boy at our school who is known to not take stuff seriously asked for duct tape, and when she gave him some he just played around with it like a toy. But I have thought about these babies so much today--and I am so proud of my incredible friend Amy! God bless her and everyone involved in this movement!

-- Megan S

**************************

It was frighting to be stared at by tons of people at school but i knew i was standing up for something i believe in. I got my friends involved so i knew i wasn't standing alone.

-- Emely

**************************

I went to school with tape over my mouth, and I immediately got so much attention! I was asked questions frequently and got so many stares. Kids asked me why I was doing this, so I pulled out a flyer every time. Some of my friends, even kids I didn't know, wanted to do it too! It was amazing. I started out being the only person in my entire school participating in this event, and at the end of the day a few girls asked me,"I saw some kids wearing tape, what's up with that?" God took what I was doing and multiplied it. I was able to "tell" so many people about how wrong abortion is, even kids I've never seen before. I had one teacher that told me to take it off, so I just put it on my shoulder. A few kids backed me up when he said to take it off, though. And my instrument ensemble teacher said that what I was doing was cool, and I should be proud of myself. Some kids told me that what I was doing was stupid and pointless, while others wanted to do it too and know more about it. It just goes to show you how much God can do with just one person.

-- Ashley Burgess

**************************

Today was amazing. I went to school with my friend and we were wearing pro-life shirts, and and pretty much covered in red tape. i had 1 on my leg, on on my wrist one on my both of my shoes. Here's how it went...

1st period.
2 girls sitting next to me kept asking what i was doing. As i got out the "WHY I AM SILENT" papers they just gave me a dirty look they thought i was mad at them they saw the paper and were like, "omg i wanna do it" So they were silent the whole day.
2 girls

2nd period.
These other two girls sitting at my table, were like aww i love this baby (we have flour babies) and they saw my shirt and noticed i wasn't beiong my normal loud self. they asked me all these things and i just showed them the paper, and they said the wanted to do it. So they did.

4 girls

3rd period.
i was sittiing in class and my friend that i usually talk to every day was like "Stephy y arent u talking" again i handed a paper over to him and he decided to do it too. my friend overheard us and she wanted to join in too.

5 girls
1 boy

4th period

My friend asked what i was doing. She gave me a whole bunch of crap about what i was doing. I had to break my silence. she kept making escuses for why it's okay. then my friend heard us and she didn't go silent but she backed me up.

5th period.
I walked into the locker room girl asked me if i was being silent. I nodded yes and she asked why i showed her the paper and she became silent then 4 other girls became silent. all in 5 minutes!!

9 girls 1 boy

6th period.
nothing happened. 1 boy told me to break my silence cuz it was pointless. I denied his lil offer and he got mad.

7th period.
three girls were like i want to but it's almost the end of the day. how long is this going on. i said just today but more ppl were like i want to do it and we all decided to keep silent for the rest of the week!!

16 GIRLS
1 BOY

it was awesome.
We all did this because of the babies!!
My bro was aborted.
I could have beenalso my momhad cancer while pregnant with me.
R.I.P.
Jamie Hernandez
who never got a chance

-- Stephy Scarbrough

**************************

This was my first year participating not everyone who signed up at my school stayed silent all but other than that it was an amazing day.The funniest part was when my chem. teacher asked me a multiple choice question he would point to each one answer choice as I shook my head yes or no. I can't wait till next year!

I can't wait till next year!

-- Mary

**************************

This was my first year participating in Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity. I was debating whether or not to participate in Silent Day given the fact that i might be a "learning disturbance" as the 8th grade administrators call it. So i decided to be silent all day but not wear duct tape. I passed out flyers when people asked why I wasn't talking. I slipped up once when i had to talk to a teacher. It was hard at first but I look at the precious gift of life differently through this experience.

-- Katherine

**************************

This is my 5th year doing this. i was one of the only people at my school to do this all day. All my teachers liked that i stood up for what i believe in. I wore a black shirt with red tape on it. i also had a piece of tape over my mouth which said life. this is my first year at this school... but i know students that have done it at this school before. The Principal had told me i was doing good. At lunch the assistant Principal had called me to the stage and harassed me. saying things like i looked soo stupid and whatnot. He told the principal that i had to take off the tape. Almost all the other administrators didnt mind but still because the assistant principal didnt believe in it they made me take it off. I just put it on my shirt. i remained silent though the harassment. I got my point across though. and thats really all i care bout. Before second period i had ran out of fliers. and i had copied about 150.

God Bless. =]

-- Krystal Schmidt

**************************

I am a chatter box so the guys all mocked me when i showed them the flyer. The girls in my class were all very impressed. One of them asked to see my flyer at the end of the day. I go to a small town school so i was not amazed to see that i was the only one doing it. i am just happy to show everyone my belifs. My teachers were very good about not asking me questions. I did break my silence towards the end of the day because like i said i am a chatter bow. It was nice to see people point that out to me. It showed that i left a lasting impression on them.
"let the little children come to me" Matt. 19:14a
your sister in the lord
tay

-- taylor hobbs

**************************

I found out about SilentDay on Facebook this morning. A friend of mine posted it and I looked it up. I left a bit early and went to Lowes to pick up red duck tape before work, and my day begun. I had to break silence sometimes in order to take calls at work, but otherwise I did what I could to make my silence heard. I'm at home now, and my husband and I will be going out later tonight with him wearing the tape as well.

I had a lot of people ask me about it, and some responded greatly, others just thought it was weird. I almost hugged the girl at Starbucks who knew automatically what I was doing and had a huge smile on her face. I will definitely be doing this every year. I've always been pro-life, but this is the first time I've felt that I could do anything about it.

-- Sarah Scardino

**************************

I decided to do the silent day this year because this was the first I had heard about it. I wore the tape over my mouth during the school day and every one was asking questions. I got a bit of criticism but I wasn't worried to stand for what I believe in. I am a strong supporter of pro-life. :)

-- Kimbelry Glover

**************************

I participated in Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity, complete with the red tape and all. I couldn't wear it on my mouth while at work, but I wore it on my smock. My manger wasn't to happy. She had an abortion when she was a teenager. The day before, she said I shouldn't because it may offend the customers. I told her it was my 1st amendment right. She said its also their first amendment right to come rip it off. Then, today, she said "I could never be quiet a whole day. Well, I guess I could for a pro-choice protest." She is entitled to her opinion, but it also felt a bit like she was mocking me.
I had a few odd stares, some read it, others ignored it. One lady reached across the counter, put her hand on mine, and said "I support you in what you are doing, I believe in that too." She even asked for information on it, and I gave her the "Why I Am Silent" paper and the Development facts one. The other lady she was with told me it was "awesome." It's always good having people like that. Some other people read it, and kept quiet. Others, smiled. Only a couple actually responded to it. I just hope it made people think.
AFter work I went to the gas station and wore the "LIFE" duct tape and the "Why I Am Silent" paper on my shirt. The cashiers read it, and asked me how long I was doing it. I held up one finger. They thought it was really neat and read the whole paper.
I do say, I feel proud. I'm glad I stood up for what I believe in and didn't let others words or reactions get me down. I respect everyone's opinions, and I don't want to force my beliefs on anybody. I plan to participate in this for as long as I can, and until it impacts so greatly the law changes. God bless everyone, and pray to end abortion!

-- TIffany

**************************

Hi,
this is actually my first year doing the pro-life day of silent solidarity. I have to say it was so powering. Everytime i wanted to talk i jst stoped and thought of all the poor aborted babies and wanted to cry :(. so many people wanted to join me in this and everyone kept asking what it was for and i wrote it on paper and they were so motivated. and at school i would jst write answers down and all my teachers were so proud of me that i was doin this!
this is such a great day!!!
and very inspirational i was so glad i could do this and i will keep doin it no matter what cause i AM PRO-LIFE!!!!!!!
and to those who havent tried it you should its really powerful day!!!

-- Brittnee

**************************

I organized the event at my high school this year. My friend and I each brought rolls of tape and extra fliers to pass out. Before long, I had people coming up to me that I have never seen before asking me for tape and fliers for themselves and their friends. I ran out of fliers before 1st period was over, and people still kept coming and asking for tape. What started out as a small event among my friends turned into a huge school-wide event. Though I was greatly ridiculed by my peers for standing up for the truth, I believe the long term impact was well worth it. I overheard two girls talking in the hallway about how they had never thought about abortion as murder before, but now they realize just how wrong it is. Thank you for holding this event!! I am now faced with countless opportunities to get the word out about the horrors of abortion.

-- Mary

**************************

Today was the first year I participated in the Silent Day. My friend had heard about it from another teacher and told me about it. As I was walking to class one of the assistant principals stopped me and was really rude about it, but five minutes after that another one stopped me and told me that it was good. I got to class and everyone asked me about it, so I had written a note and passed it around so everyone would know. In Second period several freshmen(i'm a junior) got tape from the teacher and wore it during the day as well. In every class several people asked about it. In 6th period someone asked me about it so I pulled up the website on a computer (i didn't get to print out any of the handouts) and showed it to her. She looked shocked at the numbers, which would shock anyone. On my way home, at a red light, a kid on the school bus infront of me saw the tape on my mouth and waved at me to get my attention and gave me a thumbs up. Someone in another class even told me to keep up the work. I was glad to know that people stood behind me.
I'm really proud that I did this. There are several pregnant girls in my school, and a few of them are considering abortion. I hope that my friends' and I helped them to make a decision to be be Pro-Life. I will definitely participate next year, and hopefully we can get more people in school to do it.

-- Kel

**************************

All day at school, I was harassed. I was ridiculed. People spat at me and told me I was ignorant. I broke my silence at the end of the day and professed my faith. I defended myself and more or less argued with a girl, explaining to her the options a woman has when she's raped and left with a child-that adoption is a great option, that people will take care of the child. She only spat harder. I thought that I wasn't making a difference. She just called me. She's pregnant and she wants help. I saved a baby's life.

This is a rewarding cause. A lot of people in my school contributed. And now I know for a fact that God hears us!

-- Christina

**************************

There were about thirty people in my school who said that they'd participate in the silent day. Once school started, our principal went around the school finding everyone with red tape on their mouths and making them take it off. That was the end for some people, they started talking. Most of them made it through half of the day. There were only three of us who stayed silent all day. One of the three was a pregnant sophomore. She changed her mind after talking to us on Monday, and now she's keeping her twins.

-- Julia

**************************

I wore 3 pieces of red tape. one, on my arm saying "pro-life!" as a reminder to my peers saying what i stand for. one, on my neck beneath my chin, saying "silent" as a reminder to myself not continue my protest and not speak. and finally one, on my stomache saying "choose life" as a reminder to the young girls who find themselves pregnant to choose life for thier child. I was harrassed. I wanted to speak out in rage, but i kept in mind that today was not for them. but for me to show the world that abortion is wrong.

-- Faith Snyder

**************************

I am 100% Pro-Life. i am not a student. i am 20 with a 1 yr old daughter. the day i found out i was pregnant my boyfriend tried to get me to get an abortion. when we told his mom she handed me a check to pay for my abortion. i have never believed in abortion and had to fight so much harder than i could ever have imagined i would have. when i refused to get an abortion he tried to beat me up and kill my daughter. i then moved to a different state and left everything i had to keep my daughter safe. She is my world!! i love her more than words can possibly say!! if i can be a mom and take care of my daughter everyday and love every moment of it, then i truly believe anyone can! thank you all for choosing to be Pro-Life!!

-- Erin Gray

**************************

I decided to take a stand for what I believe in.Our town,schools knew nothing about this.I go to a continuation and was able to get over half of the school plus the principle to wear red and duck tape with the word Pro Life on it. It was so amazing because I was able to express myself without saying a thing and I feel so good about it. It doesn't take much to change peoples views on stuff guaranteed.

-- Ashley Hentschel

**************************

Today at school people that i told on myspace and facebook didn't believe that i would stay silent all day.I proved them wrong.I slipped a couple of times but this is my first year doing this.In my last hour everybody wanted to know what my shirt said after my teachers assitant read it.I was wearing a tank top under my shirt(on the shirt i wrote what the fliers said)so i took off the shirt and it pretty much went all around the room.almost everybody read it.i had one girl ridicule me about it.but i just ignored it.All my friend's understood.They didn't ridicule me or anything, most of them were proud of me for standing up for what i believe in.I can't wait to do it next year

-- Kaila

**************************

I fully supported my girls taking part in the 2009 day of silent solidarity. The school made my 13 yr old daughter take the tape off her mouth and told her she had to wash it off her hands also. No matter how much you try, you just can't make truth that is pleasing to God go away. I'm proud of my kids for standing up for the rights of the unborn. They are survivors of a holocaust and are thankful for that every day.

-- Heidi Owens

**************************

I went to school today with tape over my mouth. Only one other friend of mine did the same. We both got stares and questions, and she even got sent to the principal's office because the teacher would not believe us when we said we have the right to do this. By the end of the day, though, I have seen at least 20 more people put tape on their clothing/mouths. Sure, 20 people isn't much, but of 4000 schools doing this, I'm sure this has made a difference.

-- Joanne Tien

**************************

Today at my School (Ocean Township High School, Oakhurst, NJ) I did this. They made me remove the "Life" tape from my face AND Wanted me to speak.

My School's Gay-Straight alliance has a protest coming up, and THEY are allowed to wear special T-SHIRTS made for their silent protest!!!!

-- Josh

**************************

I am homeschooled (I'm 15 in high school) but I go to the local community college for credits. I had the tape on my mouth and clothes and bracelets on and wore almost all red. My whole family did. Our house was silent all day. Myself and my 2 older sisters go to the community college and we were silent there too. My teachers were all kinda upset but I think they got over it. It was weird to have everyone looking at me and ridiculing me but it was worth it. We had a lot of people ask us what we were doing and we handed out fliers, quite a few of them wanted tape as well luckily we had some. So we handed out tons of fliers, bracelets and tape. I did stop my silence for a bit while I talked to some girls about not getting abortions and convinced 3 of them to keep their babies! We ended up having about 59 people join us, it was AMAZING!

-- Shell Vargo

**************************

To day was interesting i felt good about what i did and who i was representing the voiceless victims.It was really hard to pray for 9 hours i ran out of words to think it was also hard not to talk.i feel proud it's my first year and i only said 8 words. i can't wait to do this next year. i hope i get better at not talking.

when i talked (oops)

i bumped into a girl and said "sorry"
i found a shirt and said "its not mine"
and my teacher made me say "i need computer 24"

what bothered me:

when people didn't know what abortion was and were like "oh ok thats cool" or "wow that's dumb" like how would you know!and then when someone else would ask they'd tell them the wrong thing before i could give them the flier.

also these really annoying boys were trying to get me to talk,one even kept ripping my red cloth off my mouth!

also my teachers kept saying "sam you following me here?" it was annoying.

i also thought that what my mom thought she said "i'm fine with this but all women deserve choices and it's a moral issue that should be between you and god." she went one to say "what if you raped and he had no condom that's not fair or your a naive 12 or 13 year old who's easily presserd. i'm not pro choice but just saying honey."

what i did to help my friends

when someone asked me what abortion was i wrote them a note of what it is and how terrible it is and all my friends that were girls said "wow when i get preganat i won't get one of those, good for you"

also i wrote them this" abortion is murder though you won't go to jail it wont be on the news and it can be kept secretive to avoid scrutany it's wrong please tell everyone you know what you heard (i should've put read) today."

so i feel proud of my self i slipped up a few times but i'm proud that i stood up for what i belive.

-- samantha speraw

**************************

Proud of my 8th grade son's participation in the Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity. As I said on Twitter, "Son went 2 school thinkng 30-40 kids were going 2 participate in Silent Solidarity. >100 did!! Emptied 20 yard tape roll ~ 4-6" per person"
Someone he didn't even know came up to him asking if he knew him because the kid wanted to get a piece of tape so as to participate.

-- Mary

**************************

i was silent today for my first to periods. When i was asked a question i wrote it on a piece of paper and raised it up to show them the answer. When i had a question i did the same. I was dedicated to this day because i do not believe in obortion. I hope many people did as i did. Maybe this will end the era of obortion for good.

-- Rebecca

**************************

My day went well.I didn't talk all day except for 1 word,which I had to say out of respect to a teacher.People were presuring me all day but I didn't say anything to them.Although I said one word,I still felt proud of what I did.All the time I wasn't doing any school work,I prayed for abortion to stop and for the more then 4,000 victims of abortion a day.If the is another Day of Silent Solidarity again,I will do it next year.

-- Gabe Stevens

**************************

My mom was encouraged to get an abortion when she found out she was pregnant with me...i'll be 18 this year. I am pro-life, abortion is murder, and it's against the word of God. This is my 2nd year doing the day of silent solidarity, and I intend on continuing on doing it every year.

-- Emily

**************************

I did this at my college for the day and had many girls come up to me and talk to me. Some had had abortions and wanted to repent and come to Jesus and ask for forgiveness and I had 4 girls come up to me saying that they were pregnant and had been thinking about abortion and they all said that now there is no way they are giving up their babies! =D It was such a great and amazing day. Thank the Lord! Thank you for having this!

-- Rachel

**************************

It was really awesome. I headed it up at my school and my school is very violent and most of the students are in gangs.
At the beginning of the day i had 13 followers but i brought extra tape just in case. By the end of the day i was surrounded by 97 students wearing tape and silent.
My school only has a student population of 350. It was really awesome to see kids white and hispanic putting aside their differences to come to one single cause.
The newspaper also came and took pictures of the students walking through the halls.

-- Liz Lenihan

**************************

i made a shirt that on the fron said POR-LIFE and on the back said, abortion is not healthcare (yea i stole it lol) but in first hour, AP Bio, i was being bothered by some people over my shirt. My teacher decided to go into a 10 minute discussion about partial birth abortions. it shut up the kids. the rest of the day was fine though. minus a teacher telling me my shirt wasnt allowed in school. pictures will soon follow

I am extremely happy i could be a part of this program this year, i will continue to do this every year for here on out, thanks a ton

-Travis

-- Travis Miracle

**************************

Today me and mi friend went to school with red duct tape that said life over our mouths, people didnt no why so we printed tons of fliers and put them around the school. By the end of the day all of our friends and more people and tape on there mouths.
--Sammi

-- Sammi Penzerro

**************************

This is my second year doing the Pro-Life movement. Last year, I just wore tape on my clothing, not on my mouth because I thought the school would find it inappropriate. I barely slipped, said a few words. This year, I am a Freshman in high school now. I did indeed wear the tape this year. I got a lot of ridicule, called stupid, immature and so on. My teachers were very understanding, though. I only had to participate in one class, and even then I barely said anything. I'm proud of myself for standing up in this. I think Pro-Life is an outstanding idea and a great thing to do. I plan on participating in this every year.

-- Tatum Boehm

**************************

I'm a 6 graider at Krimmel Intermediat and the teachers don't approve of my movement but I keep going because it is for a good cause and I suport it. So for the rest of the day I will not talk. NO MATER WHAT!!!

-- Maddison Skinner

**************************

i usually talk a lot so people saw how serious i was that i didn't talk for 4 hours(i couldn't last all day sry)

-- taylor

**************************

me and my sister went to skool today with the silent sticker on our face. the prinipal noticed me and asked me to go to her office. she asked that i remove the sticker because it was agianst school policy. I removed it but remaind silent. I then proceeded to cover my body in silent stickers and write life in red sharpie all over my body, not out of respect toward the principle, but becuase it was my right. My sister and my friend Mike where also sent because they had stickers on their face. Many of my friends asked for stickers to wear also. However many of the students were upset that i had to remove the sticker so many of them became silent. Almost half wanted a sticker. But me and my sister only had so many. so those who did not recieve one were silent. I realized how many of my fellow students are pro-life, and even those who were pro-choice still told me that they thought what i did was worth while and supported me. There is more but its hard to explain unlesss you were there.
-Thank you listening,
Zachary Santoro

p.s. if you want more pictures just contact me

-- zachary santoro

**************************

Today was pro-life day of silent solidarity and personally i had an awesome day. I was so surprise to walk into school today and see just how many people actually particapated. There were so many people i never would have imagined would have done it, but i was so proud. One thing i learned about my school today was that people are just rude. There were countless times people just joked about it and were trying to make me talk and just moking it and it was really sad.One thing that really broke my heart was a girl walked around with pro-choice stuff on all day and it broke my heart even more. I will continue to keep her and all the babies adorted everyday in my prayers

-- Bre Thompson

**************************

Hi. My name is Hannah I'm 16 years old. This past year was the 1st time i had ever heard of pro-life day of silent solidarity. my best friend Mia was the one to tell me about it. so i decided i would do it. i woke up this morning & i had completely forgot it was today. i went to school frantically trying to find some red duck tape but i finally did from a friend. & so my day began writing down answers to questions getting starred at which scarred me at 1st but then i held my head up high & i new what i was fighting for. at lunch i was told by an administrator to take off the tape & told me that if i didn't i would get written up. he asked again if i would take it off & i shook my head no along with another boy. he then took us to another administrator that asked if it had been a problem in any of our classes. we responded by shaking our head no, he then told us that if it did become a problem we would have to take the tape off. he then dismissed us & we went on our way. people we knew asked us if we were getting referrals or not we shook our heads no. in all honesty I'm glad my best friend told me about this day & this fight that we have to fight for those who cant fight & aren't given any opportunity to do so. so until God comes i will keep on doing this each & every year. -Hannah

-- Hannah

**************************

I kept a journal with me for Silent Day, so I can share my feelings about some of the things I might be going through today.

My Bus-6:30AM-I walked on the bus and all eyes were on me. For once, I didn't care at all. I sat next to my friend Jordan, like usual, and he looked at me and laughed. He was in my english class, and yesterday I explained to everyone what i was doing today. Once the bus parked in the school bus lot, he looked at me again and asked "Why?" I gave him a flyer, and he read it. He looked at me he asked me if I had any tape on me. I did. So I gave him a piece and wrote LIFE on it.

School-7:00AM-I walk off my bus and me and Jordan went our separate ways. Some girls looked at me. They had the look of stupidness to me. They just stared. Of course, I didn't say anything. I walked to my locker with my best friend Maggie and 2 boys came up to me and say they were pro-choice. Not in a mean way, I'm guessing they wanted me to know their opinion.

Algebra-7:10AM-I walked in and my teacher looked at me and smiled. She said her daughter is doing the same thing for the same cause today. My friend Jewel also wanted to participate with me, so I gave her red tape and a marker and wrote LIFE on it. When the last bell rang, everyone walked in at one time and I made eye contact with each of them. 3 snobby girls asked me what was the tape for, and I offered them flyers. One girl said no thanks I'll find out myself, but the other two took the flyers and read them. One of the two girls threw it in my face and said this was so stupid. But I just shrugged. She was lucky I couldn't talk. But the other girl said that the flyer makes sense to her. She was Pro-Choice, and I changed her mind, and now she's Pro-Life. Or so she claimed.

Animal/Plant Behavior-7:58AM-There's a girl who sits in front of me, and she had the same red duct tape that said LIFE and she had the red armbands. My teacher asked us what this was for and a guy called out "they're against abortions". My teacher went on for what seemed like hours about how she's pro-choice and pro-life people are stupid. I just ignored it all, but I was very offended.

Spanish-10:07AM-Some people knew what I was doing this for. A girl, also named Michelle, asked for a flyer and tape. My spanish teacher took the flyer and read it outloud. It was so quiet when she finished, and I saw everybody's faces, and they looked convinced. But this 1 girl. She looks at me with a dirty look, and she goes "Who cares about dead babies? If you're trying to save them, you're too f***ing late. They're dead, kay?" I didn't want to break the silence and say something, but my teacher wrote her up for disrespecting my beliefs. Literally, the rest of the class, which is around 21 people, said they're pro-life. Just from the facts. They all asked me for red tape and a flyer, and I feel proud for doing this. I'm one of the many people who made a difference and changed people's lives. I used to never believe in one person can make a difference, but one person really can make a difference.

Lunch-10:50AM-I get called down the the principle's office for some reason. I go, and all of the Assistant Principles and the Principle was there. They told me to take the red tape off my mouth and my clothes and my backpack. I asked them what was wrong with it and one of the AP's said that I had to do this outside of school and that they were going to suspend me for this. They told me they suspended 38 kids today because of Pro-Life within the last two years. I told them that if they suspended me, then they're gonna see me in court. The head principle said I have no reason to sue the school. I asked them to use a computer and I showed them the FAQ's on the silent day site. The FIRST one that was on the list was this:

Question - What if my school, teacher or administrator says no?
Answer - If they tell you that you cannot participate in the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity you need to contact our lawyers who will help you fight for your rights. Their contact information can be found on the website under the legal help section.

They all stared at me and I told them that if they don't let me and the other almost 40 students off of suspension, they're going to have a visit from a lawyer. Then one of them said that I wouldn't do that and I said to test me out because I will. So then they called in the 38 students who got suspended into the conference room and said they aren't suspended anymore.

English-12:16PM-My teacher was great today. Yesterday, I told him and my class what today was, and he was nice enough to give us a break from Edgar Allen Poe, and have us write an assignment called "Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?" I probably had the longest paper, but I was so happy that he made the lesson on Silent Solidarity.

-- Michelle D

**************************

Today was a fun and affecting day! Most my friends asked me what are you doing and why aren't you talking. I showed them the paper and they thought i was lame. I really didn't care what they said to me i was just strong and i was able to survive they day. I had gone to the mall and everyone was laughing and pointing to me but i really didn't care. This day was a fun and enjoyable day i have better ideas for next year. I cant wait!

-- Dan S.

**************************

It was amazing. This is my fourth year participating, and I'm in the ninth grade. As always, I had the one teacher who tried to get me to speak, my science teacher. I ended up taking a zero for the class, and that motivated three more people to join me in Silent Day. At the start of the day we had three people, but by the time I left school we had seventeen people in silence. Only God can do that.

-- Savannah Harvey

**************************

My aunt almost got abortion til she realized that it would make her a mother of a dead baby. And ever since that I'm pro-life.

-- Brittany

**************************

It was Great! In my health class most of my class took a bracelet and some duct tape and tried to remain silent for the whole day. My health teacher supported pro-life so he was talking about it and showed everyone this website. Tomorrow we are going to talk about what abortion it because lots of people were asking questions. I ran out of bracelets when I thought I'd have to many. It was a whole new experience for me. It was hard for me to remain silent the entire day. I did mess up several times and forgot and talked but I think it is a great thing to be involved in and I loved the experience

-- Kim