HuGeo Q2 9.2 COVID Memorial

HuGeo Q2 9.2 COVID Memorial

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

First official ceremony in the United States focused on the US COVID dead

Please watch minutes 4:50-9:04

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VIce President Kamala Harris

• We gather tonight, a nation in mourning, to pay tribute to the lives we have lost, a grandmother or grandfather who was our whole world, a parent, partner, sibling, or friend who we still cannot accept is no longer here.

• Tonight, we grieve and begin healing together.

• Click on all the boxes that include Vice President Harris' words or photo. Don't click on this box.

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Nurse Lori Keys: click on the boxes below that are Lori's words or her photo, singing in the hospital where she works.

• Working as a COVID nurse was heartbreaking. It’s heartbreaking for the patients who are sick.

• It was heartbreaking for the families who couldn’t be there with them, and it was heartbreaking for those caring for them.

• But when I’m at work, I sing. It gives me strength during difficult times, and I believe it helps heal. So here is Amazing Grace.

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To heal, we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember, but that’s how we heal.

• Memorial definition: something (such as a monument or ceremony) that honors a person who has died or serves as a reminder of an event in which many people died

• "Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights in the darkness, along the sacred pool of reflection, and remember all whom we lost." - Joe Biden, Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Washington, D.C.

• The next slide shows photos of Joe Biden's metaphor for healing: shine a light in the darkness.

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Shining a light as a metaphor for remembering people who died from the Coronavirus. Click on all the boxes.

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Many places held memorials for those who died from COVID. Click on the photos that show national mourning, great sadness because of all the people who have died. All cultures have traditions to remember people who have died. Click on the shining lights, an American cultural tradition.