"The exchange came as Cooper spoke with the network's veteran correspondent Steve Hartman for the upcoming Netflix documentary All the Empty Rooms, which follows Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they visit the bedrooms left behind by eight children killed in shootings across the country. For the families, these rooms remain points of gravity and untouched spaces, where memory sits in place of a lost child."
"It's such a reminder that while everybody else moves on from what is a story to them, the families never move on, Cooper said, his voice tightening. Hartman noted that the parents who opened their doors did so out of frustration with how quickly national attention dissipates, replying: That's part of the reason the families did agree because it's very frustrating for them when the country moves on. And they certainly haven't moved on and will never move on."
Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp document preserved bedrooms of children killed in school shootings for a Netflix film. Many of these rooms remain untouched for years and function as tangible repositories of memory for grieving families. Families consented to the project out of frustration with fleeting national attention and to preserve their children's presence. Anderson Cooper became emotional discussing the weight parents carry as the sole holders of their child's memory. The project underscores ongoing sorrow, the permanence of loss, and the emotional toll families endure long after headlines subside.
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