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Heartbreaking tribute to Uvalde school shooting victims at San Antonio's Muertosfest (tpr.org)

 
Jack Morgan/Lanier High School's Día de Muertos altar
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People throughout South Texas are celebrating Día de los Muertos by building colorful altars and decorating them with photos of their lost loved ones, flowers and their favorite foods. The citywide celebration Muertosfest has included a monument specifically honoring the children and teachers lost to the Uvalde school shooting
Muertosfest’s Chris Davila said 80 altars were set up throughout Hemisfair, the tree-shaded downtown site of the city’s 1968 World’s Fair.

Davila said each of those 80 altars are touching in their own way, but that Lanier High School’s art class has produced something different.

“They join us every single year and always produce an altar that is somehow poignant and heartfelt. This year, they are choosing to honor the students and the teachers who were victims at Robb Elementary,” she said.

"We created an altar in honor of the teachers and students who lost their lives at Robb Elementary during that horrible day in May. So what we're doing right now is we're setting up our altar,” Arce said. “This is my art club kids and some of my advanced students that are doing this project.”

That altar comes in 20 large parts: One each for the 19 students who died, and one piece for the two teachers who passed. Each of the 19 look like small student desks.

Arce said that after Muertosfest, the parents of the slain children would be welcome to take home their child’s desk, if they want to.

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