For this
2014 Tree of Angels Ceremony, Unit 1012 will remember and honor 24 murdered
victims + victims of war crimes from the United States and around the world. This
is similar to the 2014 National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims,
where we remembered more than 55 murdered victims.
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Adorned Tree of Angels
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"So long as we live, they too shall live and love for they are a
part of us as we remember them."
- Gates of Prayer
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| William McKinley |
1. William McKinley (January
29, 1843 – September 14, 1901), the 25th President of the
United States.
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| Janusz Korczak and the children,
memorial |
2. Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879
– August 1942), was a Polish-Jewish educator, children's author, and
pediatrician known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary
Doktor ("Old Doctor"). After spending many years working as
director of an orphanage in Warsaw, he refused freedom and stayed with his
orphans when the institution was sent from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination
camp, during the Grossaktion
Warsaw of 1942.
3. Anne Frank
A.K.A Annelies Marie "Anne"
Frank (Dutch pronunciation: [ɑnəˈlis ˈɑnə maˈri frɑŋk], German
pronunciation: [anəliːs ˈanə maˈʁiː fʁaŋk], pronunciation (help·info); 12 June 1929 – early
March 1945) is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her
wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several
plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived
most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German
national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame
posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding
during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.
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| The Hall of Names containing Pages of
Testimony commemorating the millions of Jews who were murdered during the
Holocaust. |
On
this date, August 12, 1952, 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in
Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. This case is also known as The Night of The Murdered Poets. Let us
remember them and never forget the injustice they suffered under Joseph Stalin.
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| Emmett Till in a photograph taken by his
mother on Christmas Day 1954, about eight months before his murder. When the
photo ran in the Jackson Daily News Till and his mother were given
"a profound pathos in the flattering photograph", which
"humanized the Tills". |
4. Emmett Louis Till (July 25,
1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who was murdered in
Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. Till
was from Chicago, Illinois, visiting his relatives in Money, Mississippi, in
the Mississippi Delta region, when he spoke to 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the
married proprietor of a small grocery store there. Several nights later,
Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's
great-uncle's house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and
gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing
of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound (32 kg)
cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Three days later, Till's
body was discovered and retrieved from the river.
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JFK on Forgiveness
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5. John F. Kennedy A.K.A John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917
– November 22, 1963), commonly known as "Jack" or by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the
United States, serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November
1963.
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| Daniel J. Faulkner |
6. Daniel J. Faulkner (December
21, 1955 – December 9, 1981): Faulkner was the youngest of seven children in an
Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, who drove
a trolley car, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother
went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. Faulkner
dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate's degree in
criminal justice while serving in the United States Army. In 1975, he left the
army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia
Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in
college to earn his bachelor's degree in criminal justice. He married in 1979.
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| Nurse Donna Schnorr
(1957 to July 15, 1984) |
8-11. Kermit Alexander’s mother, sister and two nephews, ages
8 and 13, were murdered in South Central Los Angeles during a home invasion by
members of the Rollin 60’s Neighborhood Crips, whose intended victims lived two
doors away.
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| Polly Klaas |
12. Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 –
October 1, 1993) is an American murder victim whose case gained national
attention. At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point from her
mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, on
October 1, 1993. She was later strangled. Richard Allen Davis was
convicted of her murder in 1996 and sentenced to death.
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| Tracie Joy McBride |
13. Private Tracie Joy McBride was murdered by Louis
Jones, Jr on February18, 1995. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on
March 18, 2003. We, the comrades of Unit 1012, will remember how Tracie live
and not remember how she died. We encourage people to donate money to the Tracie
Joy McBride Scholarship Fund.
14. Michael Lyons (September 28, 1987 to May 17, 1996)
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| JonBenét
Ramsey |
15. JonBenét Patricia Ramsey
(August 6, 1990 – December 25, 1996) was an American child beauty pageant queen
who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's
body was found in the basement of the family home about eight hours after she
was reported missing during a police search of her home. She had been struck on
the head and strangled. The case remains unsolved, even after
several grand jury hearings, and continues to generate public and media
interest.
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| Police Officer Larry
Elwood Lasater Jr. |
16. Police Officer Larry Elwood Lasater Jr. (End of Watch: Sunday,
April 24, 2005)
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| Vivian Wolfe (left)
and Javad Marshall Fields (right) |
17-18. On
this date, June 20, 2005, a couple, Javad Jay Marshall Fields and Vivian Wolfe
were both gunned down in Aurora, Colorado. Robert Ray
and Sir Mario Owens were both sentenced to death.
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| Channon Gail
Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23. |
19-20. Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were a
couple from Knoxville, Tennessee. They were raped, tortured and murdered after
being kidnapped early on the morning of January 7, 2007. Their vehicle had been
carjacked. Five suspects were arrested and charged in the case. The grand jury
indicted four of the suspects on counts of capital murder, robbery, kidnapping,
rape and theft, while a fifth was indicted on the federal level.
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| Elizabeth Bipsy Amiran
(January 20, 1982 to February 12, 2009) |
21. Elizabeth Bipsy Amiran
(January 20, 1982 to February 12, 2009)
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| Saskia Burke (November
6, 1993 to December 20, 2011) |
22. Saskia Burke (November
6, 1993 to December 20, 2011)
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Yvonne and Arjen Ryder, who were on board
flight MH17. Pictured here in France during their holiday: "Arrived safely
at Toul in France we on the boat enjoying a drink. After a long delay with
train strikes....:-)"
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There are times when those who grieved cannot be pleased. They can only
be loved.
- Paula D'Arcy, in When Your Friend is Grieving
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