The Gun Violence Memorial features a cluster of four glass houses. Each has 700 glass brick openings — representing the average number of people killed by guns each week in the U.S. The spaces hold fragments of who they were: a hairbrush, a photograph.
Each glass house contains some empty bricks while others are labeled with the names, birthdays and the dates people died. The spaces hold small pieces of who they were — a hairbrush, pieces of jewelry. A photograph. Pam Bosley stands near the space she filled with a diorama and her face lights up as she talks about her 18-year-old son, Terrell Bosley.
"And it has drums. His driver's license — that's in there. He was somebody who had dreams, hopes," she says."He wanted to be somebody and he would have been somebody if his life wasn't ended." People memorialized in the exhibit are of different ages and races. Some died by domestic violence, some by suicide, others in random acts of street gun violence. Jha D Williams, with Mass Design Group, says there's a reason why their artifacts are in houses.
"He loved kids. He used to have secret handshakes for people," says Ramgren,"and if you didn't have enough on your tray he'd pull out graham crackers or something and he did it with his own money."
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