In a Texas town scarred by gun massacre, anger and grief gives way to a relentless cycle of mourning as two weeks of funerals begin.
American flags fluttered in the hot wind Monday as Memorial Day dawned in Uvalde, a day of mourning and remembrance that had an unfathomable overlay of grief this year because this close-knit town of 15,000 near the Mexico border was beginning to bury its dead — the 19 students and two teachers gunned down at Robb Elementary School last Tuesday.
“I’m burying parishioners, but it’s people I’ve known all my life — and that’s what makes it difficult,” he said. A visitation for Maite Rodriguez, 10, an honor student who dreamed of becoming a marine biologist, was also held Monday. When he hears a loud bang, he gets anxious and scared and has not been able to sleep well, his grandmother said.
All the arrangements for the funerals will be free, Moreno said, and she’s giving cash donations to the local library to buy books in the dead students’ names.
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