As an Eagle Scout on Monday raised his trumpet to play Taps outside of Robb Elementary School, hundreds of people around him fell silent to honour not just soldiers who died in service to America but also the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in the building behind them.
Just seconds away on the same street in Uvalde, mourners held one of the first visitations for those students, for10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, at Hillcrest Funeral Home in advance of a rosary later that evening and funeral Mass on Tuesday – exactly one week after she was gunned down in her fourth-grade classroom. The visitation for her schoolmate Maite Rodriguez was at the town’s other funeral home, with services scheduled for Tuesday evening.
