“It’s easy to numb in this environment, but we don’t just have to look at it as numbers.They’re people. Men and women, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, brothers, who had dreams, projects and a story, “Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on the site.”They weren’t done yet.”
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Detroit’s director of art and culture, Rochelle Riley, said officials expect the memorial to “wake others up to the devastating effects of the pandemic” and “bring some peace to families whose loved ones didn’t receive the funeral they deserved.”
More than 1,500 more people in Detroit have suffered the virus, the Detroit Free Press reported, mentioning Whitmer.
Photos of Detroit Park showed those who died of COVID-19 most important periods of their lives: Darrin Adams in his college degree; Daniel Aldape catches a fish; Shirley Frank with an Elvis impersonator; and Veronica Davis crossing the baseline in a race.
“It’s a bit like walking in a cemetery, yet you look at the shots of the Array tombstones.It’s so serene,” said Detroit police photographer Reggie Burks, who lost his colleagues and friends to the coronavirus.
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Tyree Barksdale, 18, was also there to pay tribute to his mother Laneeka, 47, when he died of coronavirus last March.
“There’s a time of day when I don’t think about my mother,” he told The Free Press.”There are days when I can’t sleep.”
The Associated Press contributed to the report.