BENNINGTON — "For each soul brave enough to know themselves and live authentically, despite the fear of hate and violence, we remember them and we hold their light. We acknowledge the fragility of human life. For every name unspoken, for every story silenced and every dream cut short, we remember them and we hold their light.”

With those powerful words, the Bennington community came together to repeat out loud the names of those in the Transgender community, across Vermont and across America, who perished over the last year through violence and suicide during the National Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony in Downtown Bennington on Thursday. The names of those 58 lost, most killed by a targeted acts of violence, were read aloud at the moving ceremony of lighted candles and personal s

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