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Patriots donate plane to carry Parkland students to DC for rally

WASHINGTON — Parkland students flying to Washington D.C. for the March For Our Lives got a ride from New England's own Robert Kraft this week.

Tweets from the shooting survivors headed to nation's capitol to lobby for gun law reform showed them with their families boarding the New England Patriots' planes.

The Patriots are the only team in the NFL to have their own planes to travel to and from away games, and owner Robert Kraft reportedly donated the use of the planes to the students so they could get to Washington.

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Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida are organizing a march in Washington D.C. this weekend to lobby for stricter gun laws in the wake of a shooting that left 17 of their fellow students dead.

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