When Gun Violence Ends Young Lives, These Men Prepare the Graves ...Middle East

MILLSTADT, Ill. — It was a late Friday afternoon when a team of men approached a tiny pink casket. One wiped his brow. Another stepped away to smoke a cigarette. Then, with calloused hands, they gently lowered the child’s body into the ground. Earlier that day, the groundskeepers at Sunset Gardens of Memory had dug the small grave up on a hill in a special section of this cemetery in a southern Illinois community across the river from St. Louis. It was for a 3-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet. “It can be stressful sometimes,” Jasper Belt, 26, said. “We have to use little shovels.” More than 30 years ago, Johnnie Haire and the other groundskeepers built a garden si

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