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Healing Las Vegas Donna A McAleer

Healing Las Vegas von Donna A McAleer

Healing Las Vegas Donna A McAleer


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Zusammenfassung

The story of the Las Vegas Community Healing Garden as told through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counselors, and members of the community.

Healing Las Vegas Zusammenfassung

Healing Las Vegas: The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in response to the 1 October tragedy Donna A McAleer

On Sunday, October 1, 2017, a gunman opened fire from thirty-two floors above a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip. The event left fifty-eight people killed, more than 860 injured, and thousands psychologically wounded. To date, this was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in the last seventy years. Despite the chaos and terror, first responders, concert-goers, and passersby aided vic tims and survivors. Nearby businesses, hotels, and the university provided safety and services. Medical personnel rushed to area hospitals. And as the scope of the tragedy unfolded, the people of Las Vegas flooded blood donation centers and offered food, water, comfort, and care. And they cre ated a garden-The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden.

The story of the garden unfolds through photographs and the words of survivors, first responders, family members, medical professionals, counsel ors, and members of the community. In only a matter of days, volunteers and local businesses transformed a vacant downtown lot into a serene urban oasis. Families and friends of those lost in the tragedy soon adopted each of the fifty-eight trees planted in honor of their loved ones, and visitors left behind colorful mementos, including painted rocks, photographs, and orna ments, as well as words of encouragement, love, loss, and strength.

In the aftermath of 1 October, an often misunderstood city revealed its soul under the most heartbreaking of circumstances. The inspirational voices and stories from a community touched by tragedy provide comfort and encouragement. And the organic response to the unthinkable is a testa ment to how one community came together at its darkest hour, chose hope over despair, unity over hate.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • Foreword
  • October 1, 2017
  • How the Garden Came to Be
  • Planting Hope
  • Planting Love
  • Planting Joy
  • Planting Life
  • Planting Peace
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments

    Zusätzliche Informationen

    GOR013198797
    9781948908474
    1948908476
    Healing Las Vegas: The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in response to the 1 October tragedy Donna A McAleer
    Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
    Gebundene Ausgabe
    University of Nevada Press
    20191001
    128
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