
Ten years ago, a gunman walked into the Pulse nightclub in Orlando Florida and committed one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history, taking 49 lives and leaving dozens injured.
As of today, Pulse is gone. Demolished.
The City of Orlando purchased the building in 2023, and has been working with the victims’ families, survivors, first responders, trauma teams, political leaders, and community advocates to create a permanent memorial site.
One of those survivors told a local NBC News affiliate that he had mixed feelings about the building coming down, and the planned memorial itself. “I feel more emotional every time I’m in front of the building,” Cesar Rodriguez said.
“Because for us, the people that were trapped in there, it’s something we want to erase, and we don’t want to remember. We don’t want to see anymore. We need to see something better. Something that helps us, helps people to forget everything.”
“And for us, for the survivors, we feel like trash because we are never going to forget everything we have in our minds, and mostly because justice is not happening.”
That’s why we are in this fight. To demand justice for all those whose lives have been forever altered and to make sure that our nightclubs, schools, churches — every place in America — is safe from gun violence. We can’t turn our eyes away or become desensitized to this epidemic of violence.
We know there are a lot of things that seem urgent. But this couldn’t be more important.
Thanks for showing up — this movement moves forward because people like you refuse to look away.
— March For Our Lives
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