Design approved for memorial to the victims and survivors of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Design approved for memorial to the victims and survivors of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting

BY RIO YAMAT
Updated 5:23 PM EDT, September 5, 2023

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The permanent memorial to the victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history will feature 58 candle-like beams under a plan officials in Las Vegas approved Tuesday.

With the design officially in place, Clark County commissioners will shift their focus to selecting a nonprofit that will oversee fundraising and the construction and maintenance of the project. It took years to get to this point in the process and could take years more before the memorial is unveiled at the site of the attack on the Las Vegas Strip.

The commissioners voted unanimously to proceed with the design recommended by the 1 October Memorial Committee, which was formed in 2019 to develop a design concept. The committee, which was dissolved Tuesday after commissioners voted, included a survivor and the sister of one of the 60 people who were killed in the October 2017 shooting.

“We are grateful to the design teams, family members, survivors and everyone who participated in this process to create a memorial to remember the events of 1 October,” said Clark County Commission Chairman Jim Gibson, whose district includes the festival site. “Thanks to the committee’s hard work, a very unique process was put into place to ensure that anyone who had an idea for the memorial could be heard.”

The number 58 in the final design represents the initial toll of people who were killed ...

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-shooting-memorial-final-design-route-91-3d827d24461e2bf310a755c13459c518

[lapfog_1]

1. we tend to fixate on the number killed right at the moment

but many were wounded, some of whom will have their lives shortened...

I am sure that some of the victims from this mass shooting have already passed, partially as a result of having been wounded during the attack.

Same was even more true for 9/11 victims and the first responders.

And many other mass shootings.

Why does the memorial have to be centered around the number that died the day of the shooting?