River Trails Homeowners Association

Memorial on Trinity

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Does anyone know what the memorial is for on Trinity right before Raider ? Its a hill with about 10 white crosses .

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  • lkychm
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It's a memorial for all the local children that have been killed. I think it's called "Garden of Angels".

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  • hosa5
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actually there about 102 crosses representing all the children who were murdered.  The original location by the car lot surrounded by the fence filled up so fast that the landowner donated additional land.  Another person donates the crosses.  It started with the murder of Amy Robiinson and grew to remember other children who were murdered.  There is  a website that explains it ....Garden of Angels...Euless TX.....stop by one day and read each cross.  It will make you cry to hear how all those children were murdered.  Their stories are on each cross.

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  • sh1975
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hosa5 is correct...it is the Garden of Angels.  Due to my job, I have worked with several of these families closely over the years and they are all just like us....ordinary, hard-working, decent people who have suffered the ultimate loss through murder.

 

The Garden was founded as a way for the families to celebrate the lives of their loved ones, instead of going to the graves which reminds them only of death.  They are able to "decorate" the crosses with mementos, whereas you couldn't do this at a gravesite.

 

I don't know if this is still accurate, but each cross used to be hand- made by a gentleman who had also lost a loved one to murder. 

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