The bone-laying ceremony was part of a three-day event. The bones were made out of paper, clay and plaster by students, artists and activists all around the world over three years.
Many U.S. communities held bone-making events. Logan McDermott Mostowsy is with Georgetown Day School in Washington.
“I just think it’s really great to honor people who are victims of genocide because people in America, we don’t always realize what’s going on in other countries.”
Jemma Junor made a bone at The British School, also in Washington.
“I feel good that my bone is part of it and that so many people are involved.”
Again, One Million Bones’ Naomi Natale.
“It’s the people in that Capitol that need to see these bones the most and I hope that they’ll be able to come and hear about it and see what our children have made. Our children made this symbolic mass grave.”
Naomi Natale hopes that the million bones laid in front of the United States Capitol will end up in a permanent display as a memorial to those killed by genocide. I’m Kelly Jean Kelly.
And I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. Thank you for spending a little time with us on this, the eleventh day of July. On this date in 1960, one of America’s most famous novels was published. Author Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” won a Pulitzer Prize and went on to become a hit movie.
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