ESPN.com · Jun 2, 2019
D-Wade surprises as H.S. graduation speaker
Dwyane Wade, reflecting on the challenges at a Florida school where a mass shooting took place last year, told the school's 2019 graduating class that "I've never experienced anything to the magnitude that you guys just experienced."
Wade was a surprise speaker for graduation at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday. In his speech, he shared his perspective on his first visit to the Parkland, Florida, school in March 2018, three weeks after the shooting that killed 14 students and three teachers.
"I remember walking to the school, and I remember hearing absolutely nothing," Wade said. "I remember thinking to myself, 'I've never heard this kind of silence before in my life.'"
