For sibling survivors of a mass shooting, Christmas is an act of resolve.
James Slaugh, right, and his sister Charlene, center, open gifts in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Christmas Day, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. Both were wounded at Club Q on Nov. 19 during the mass shooting in November.
For families affected by the 639 mass shootings across the country this year, this is a holiday season of fresh grief and pain. In Uvalde, Texas, some parents of the 19 children killed inside Robb Elementary School posted photos on social media from Christmases past of their children hanging ornaments on the tree.
Charlene Slaugh was a teenager when she confided to her brother James and their other siblings that she was gay. When her mother found out, she forced her daughter, then 19, out of the home. When James Slaugh began coming out in his early 20s, his big sister Charlene was the first of his four siblings he told.
This year, they wanted to be together. James Slaugh, who hosted them, strung up lights and garlands at his home and made a gingerbread house — a frustrating undertaking with his right arm partially immobilized by the gunshot wound. He and Del Valle took charge of stuffing people’s stockings. James Slaugh gave impassioned testimony to a congressional committee this month decrying anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and violence. His sister, who watched him from afar, has kept a lower profile. For now, she is determined to get back to her love of kayaking and hiking.Her brother and his boyfriend said they had realized after the shooting that they were among the least hurt of those wounded in the attack. Over the past month, they said they had dealt with feelings of guilt.
Similar conversations about family and identity, pain and healing were unfolding this holiday weekend across Colorado Springs. Sanders was expecting some friends to stop by, and a neighbor had left chocolates and chicken enchiladas at the doorstep of his home.
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