I covered the unveiling of a really great memorial today to honor teachers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. The memorial is located on the edge of town at the National Teachers Hall of Fame on the Emporia State University campus, right next to a historic one-room schoolhouse that is furnished like it's still in the 1890s. There were quite a few important people who travelled here to speak, including a teacher from Sandy Hook Elementary, the president of the Newtown teachers union, and the president of the National Education Association. 

It was hard to point a big lens at people crying as the names of the teachers were read, but it led to some photos that, hopefully, give a true representation of the mood of the event.

Steve Bakke walks toward the newly revealed Fallen Teachers Memorial to place a white rose at its base in honor of one of the teachers who lost their life in the line of duty during the memorial's dedication ceremony on June 12, 2014 in Emporia, Kansas.

Tom Kuroski, Newtown Federation of Teachers union president, speaks about the importance of remembering the lives of teachers that have been lost on the job during the Fallen Teachers Memorial dedication service in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014.

Members of The National Teachers Hall of Fame reveal the newly constructed Fallen Teachers Memorial during its dedication ceremony in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014. The memorial honors those teachers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

People take photos of the names on the newly revealed Fallen Teachers Memorial after its dedication ceremony in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014.

Newtown, Connecticut teacher, Liesl Fressola,  right, tears up as she reads the names of teachers killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as she is accompanied by Tom Kuroski, Newtown Federation of Teachers union president, during the Fallen Teachers Memorial dedication service in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014.

Newtown, Connecticut teacher, Liesl Fressola, wears a ribbon to honor the lives of teachers lost in the line of duty during the Fallen Teachers Memorial dedication ceremony in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014. Fressola is a teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a gunman fatally shot 20 children and six adult staff members on December 14, 2012.

Tom Kuroski, Newtown Federation of Teachers union president, awaits the beginning of the Fallen Teachers Memorial dedication service in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014, where he helped read a list of teachers who have lost their lives on the job.

Bagpipe player William McCollum plays behind the Fallen Teachers Memorial shortly after the memorial's dedication ceremony in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014.

Dr. Rebecca Palacios, a 34 year teacher of early childhood education from Corpus Christi, Texas and 2014 inductee into the National Teachers Hall of Fame, wipes tears from her eye during the dedication ceremony of the Fallen Teachers Memorial in Emporia, Kansas on June 12, 2014.