At the end of the event, the site of a future memorial will be dedicated, where, eventually, the 12 names will be etched into the landscape of Virginia Beach.
The children of Mary Louise Gayle, whose name will be among them, have no plans to be at the ceremony.
Matthew Gayle, her son, is resuming a sailing trip he cut short exactly five years earlier when he learned of a shooting at his mother’s workplace.
They could not bring themselves to join hands with a city that they, and members of some of other victims’ families, say let them down.
What troubled her so much was that her mother, along with nearly all the other victims, had spent most of her career with the city.
Persons:
Mary Louise Gayle, Sarah Leonard, Matthew Gayle, ” Ms, Leonard
Locations:
Virginia Beach