Thank you for posting that. For your further consideration, however, I offer the following statistical report: following the Parkland shootings, during the period of exactly 12 months, there were 1,200 additional children killed by gun violence. Did we learn anything from the Parkland shootings? You tell me.

This tragedy is also on my mind but if we don't live our lives to the fullest, the murderer has won. So, I say celebrate this day of love....celebrate every day.

I don't personally celebrate any type of 'special' day. I feel like I have been driving someone around all day. As I drive, I listen to the radio. There is a lot of mention of this incident, almost too much. There have been a lot of mass shootings through the months and years. Perhaps we are becoming numb to it. It's never far from my mind though, especially since I have young kids that are still in school. But any killings are bad. Maybe worse when there are children involved, but there are no good ones.

Our thoughts and feelings are not pie...how do you know we are not thinking of them as well as Valentine's Day just because we are not posting on one this one specific site?

Many of us at work discussed the shooting a year ago and how things have not changed but that the youngsters are still pressing forward...and then we ate Valentine cookies...

This "holiday" is another ploy to get people to spend money they don't have, on things they don't need. Spend spend spend. This is why people do not have money in case there is a shut down, or a lay off, or an emergency. This is a flaw in the capitalistic system. Then we have to employ socialistic systems to bail them out with food, a loan, or rescue. Neither system is flawless. I am off topic again. =0{

It’s OK if people don’t want to bring up dark topics.

There are many justifiable varying reasons to not celebrate this day let alone enjoy it...But I do have one good reason to both celebrate and enjoy...This day for me is not just Valentine's Day - it is also and more importantly for me, my Son's Birthday Day! So let's all come together today and wish everyone who has a Birthday today a very Happy Birthday! May they have a great day and as always a better tomorrow!

I agree with you. We must remember them. We must also carry on living.

Yeah, feeling that, too.

Now I have another reason to not celebrate this "holiday".