The 2-mile-long procession represents an opportunity for people to remember their late loved ones.
Photographs of Donita Montgomery’s father dripped from the metal ribs of her bare umbrella Sunday afternoon.
Since then, friends and family have asked Montgomery to carry pictures of their loved ones to honor them during the event. Every year, Montgomery receives 10-15 more pictures to include. The 2-mile-long procession, organized by the nonprofit Many Mouths One Stomach, represents an opportunity for people to remember their late loved ones or advocate for a cause close to them. Marchers carrying large wooden crosses weaved through the teeming crowd while gun violence survivors carried a display of paper angels, representing each of the victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
Palo Santo incense smoke trailed behind the altar that Jaime Arrieta helped build for his best friend of 46 years, Dr. Justin Schultz Cetas. Arrieta helped carry the mobile altar alongside Cetas’ children and family. Cetas, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine,in a motorcycle accident in July. Cetas’ family and friends constructed the intricate altar and walked in the procession to honor the man they loved.
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