\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThis story is part of the WESH 2 Chronicle: Life after Pulse 10 years later REMEMBRANCE EVENTS | FRIDAY BELL RINGING | RAINBOW RUN | REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS | THE DEMISE OF ONEPULSE | SURVIVORS WANT ANSWERS There was a time when Don Price would care for the graves at Greenwood Cemetery every day. “I still stay in touch with everybody here. And I still ask about the kids, you know, how the kids doing,” Price said.His kids are victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.Price was Greenwood Cemetery’s sexton for 15 years, including on Orlando’s darkest day. “You took it home with you every day,” Price said.In the hours after the attack, the city reserved 49 plots, all expenses covered, for the victims. Most families chose to bury their loved ones other places. But under the sprawling branches of one of the city’s historic live oak trees, four young men are buried: Alejandro Barrios Martinez, Cory Connell, Anthony Disla, and Valentin Fernandez.Two benches bearing their names overlook a memorial with nameplates honoring all the innocent lives lost on June 12, 2016. “We were just trying to make sure it was a comfortable place, and it was somewhere that they could come and have a quiet moment and just think about their family without it feeling, without them reliving what happened,” Price said.Price remembers complete strangers pitched in as well.”So this entire thing was taken care of by the community,” Price said.Donating services for the families, setting up a free little library and the trees. They were small saplings when Bob Carr Jr. first got his beloved tabebuias. “And as a teacher and as a parent and so forth. You know, you grow things, wasn’t too far out of my experience,” Carr said.Now they tower over his head, an undeniable sign time has passed.Carr started growing his trees in small pots as therapy after his son died suddenly in 2014. When he heard about the Pulse plot, he had a thought. They could serve as memorials for not only the 49 angels lost at Pulse, but to the son Carr lost too. “I knew that it was something I could do with my trees that meant something,” Carr said.And as fate would have it, he had exactly 49.Price says their lime green leaves have become bright spots around the cemetery.For a man who spent decades surrounded by graves and grief, he certainly has a unique take on cemeteries.”That’s what it’s about, it’s about life,” Carr said. Pulse will forever be ingrained in Orlando’s story.As will the victims, forever remembered alongside the city’s most notable dignitaries at Greenwood Cemetery.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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This story is part of the WESH 2 Chronicle: Life after Pulse 10 years later <\/p>\n
REMEMBRANCE EVENTS<\/a> | FRIDAY BELL RINGING<\/a> | RAINBOW RUN<\/a> | REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS <\/a>| THE DEMISE OF ONEPULSE<\/a> | SURVIVORS WANT ANSWERS <\/a> <\/p>\n There was a time when Don Price would care for the graves at Greenwood Cemetery every day. <\/p>\n “I still stay in touch with everybody here. And I still ask about the kids, you know, how the kids doing,” Price said.<\/p>\n His kids are victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting.<\/p>\n Price was Greenwood Cemetery’s sexton for 15 years, including on Orlando’s darkest day. <\/p>\n “You took it home with you every day,” Price said.<\/p>\n In the hours after the attack, the city reserved 49 plots, all expenses covered, for the victims. Most families chose to bury their loved ones other places. <\/p>\n But under the sprawling branches of one of the city’s historic live oak trees, four young men are buried: Alejandro Barrios Martinez, Cory Connell, Anthony Disla, and Valentin Fernandez.<\/p>\n Two benches bearing their names overlook a memorial with nameplates honoring all the innocent lives lost on June 12, 2016. <\/p>\n “We were just trying to make sure it was a comfortable place, and it was somewhere that they could come and have a quiet moment and just think about their family without it feeling, without them reliving what happened,” Price said.<\/p>\n Price remembers complete strangers pitched in as well.<\/p>\n “So this entire thing was taken care of by the community,” Price said.<\/p>\n Donating services for the families, setting up a free little library and the trees. They were small saplings when Bob Carr Jr. first got his beloved tabebuias. <\/p>\n “And as a teacher and as a parent and so forth. You know, you grow things, wasn’t too far out of my experience,” Carr said.<\/p>\n Now they tower over his head, an undeniable sign time has passed.<\/p>\n Carr started growing his trees in small pots as therapy after his son died suddenly in 2014. When he heard about the Pulse plot, he had a thought. <\/p>\n They could serve as memorials for not only the 49 angels lost at Pulse, but to the son Carr lost too. <\/p>\n “I knew that it was something I could do with my trees that meant something,” Carr said.<\/p>\n And as fate would have it, he had exactly 49.<\/p>\n Price says their lime green leaves have become bright spots around the cemetery.<\/p>\n For a man who spent decades surrounded by graves and grief, he certainly has a unique take on cemeteries.<\/p>\n “That’s what it’s about, it’s about life,” Carr said. <\/p>\n Pulse will forever be ingrained in Orlando’s story.<\/p>\n As will the victims, forever remembered alongside the city’s most notable dignitaries at Greenwood Cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story is part of the WESH 2 Chronicle: Life after Pulse 10 years later REMEMBRANCE EVENTS |…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[127562,127563,187,166,127561,9127,1175,1210,127564,139,141,140,36343,15179,6411,918,164,59648],"class_list":["post-304363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-carr","tag-chronicle","tag-city","tag-day","tag-don-price","tag-greenwood-cemetery","tag-kid","tag-life","tag-most-family","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-pulse","tag-tree","tag-victim","tag-wesh","tag-year","tag-young-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}