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As a growing number of American students have been affected by active school shooters, parents who have lost their children to gun violence will have to continue to live without their child.

Nelba Marquez-Greene lost her six-year-old daughter Ana Grace in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Now, she is watching other parents go through the same thing she went through nearly a decade later.

“Right now, the families are surviving, but I would say to anyone who wants to help, if you really want to help a family, find out ways to help them directly,” said Marquez-Green on \"The View.\" “Show up now. Show up 10, 15, 20 years from now. We will need you for a lifetime.”

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PHOTO: Nelba Marquez Greene, right, and her husband Jimmy Green are comforted by grandmother Elba Marquez as they grieve over the loss of their daughter Ana Grace Marquez Greene at the launch of the Sandy Hook Promise in Newtown, Conn., Jan. 14, 2013.
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Marquez-Green said there is more work to be done than just sending thoughts and prayers to the suffering community.

“We must not be unserious in our faith. Thoughts and prayers, faith without work is dead,” she said.

Marquez-Green also urged the country to force change from the lawmakers.

“It is grotesque abdication of duty, abdication of their responsibility to American families, to fail us in this way and we see them,” she said. “Let's call out the bull crap. Let's say we see them.”

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