We need to build walls across the USA to our children killed in gun violence. We don't give them tribute and they literally disappear from our mind's eye. Outside of every town hall there needs to be a wall of the fallen children in that city. Don't put it at the schools, that will simply raise fear among the children. Put it where legislators have failed to protect the innocent.
Do not allow the memorial to be put in an obscure place. Make every legislator walk past it on the way to meetings. If it is not possible, then reroute the sidewalks.
Sgt. Kevin McCulley stands in front of one panel in a monument at a U.S. base in Kirkuk, Iraq, bearing the names of more than 4,300 U.S. service members killed in the country since the 2003 U.S. invasion. Maya Alleruzzo / AP
Do not allow the memorial to be put in an obscure place. Make every legislator walk past it on the way to meetings. If it is not possible, then reroute the sidewalks.
Sgt. Kevin McCulley stands in front of one panel in a monument at a U.S. base in Kirkuk, Iraq, bearing the names of more than 4,300 U.S. service members killed in the country since the 2003 U.S. invasion. Maya Alleruzzo / AP
Posted on Saturday, 03.16.13
BY AUDRA D.S. BURCH
ABURCH@MIAMIHERALD.COM
For a moment, Hilda Ewing (click here) hoped that if she just didn’t open the door, if she didn’t let the officer in her home, somehow the news might be different. But as the knowing feeling of a parent washed over, Ewing stood facing the officer as he delivered the news that her eldest son, Army Pfc. Jeremy Ricardo Ewing, 22, was dead, one of eight soldiers killed in a Baghdad car bomb attack on April 29, 2004.
“I had a funny feeling earlier in the day, not really something I can explain,’’ says Ewing, 54, of Miami Gardens. “And I knew from watching television that when they come to the door, it’s never good news. I didn’t want to let them in because I didn’t want to hear what they had to say.’’...
