Meeting Dates and Other Information

Dear Family:

              I am very sorry for your loss.   My youngest son was murdered in May 1994.   That is why I founded Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, Inc. in December, 1997, as a Support Group for those of us who have lost a loved one through murder.   Our meeting place has changed from Antioch Baptist Church, to the office of Black on Black Crime, Inc., at McCall's Motel, 14660 Euclid Avenue (corner of Lee Road & Euclid Avenue), East Cleveland, Ohio   44112.   We meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month September through May at 7:00 p.m .   The office is on the 1st floor straight across from the entrance.

              Please feel free to call me at 586-7398 (days) or 990.0679 (evenings) at any time if you need to talk.   I would also like to know about any suggestions you might have for speakers or other activities on our meeting nights or other evenings.   If you would like to have a candlelight vigil/memorial, we can help you with this, too.   We should also think about what we can do during holidays, since that is a hard time for all of us, too.

              If you would like to become involved in an activist group, such as Black on Black Crime, Inc., F.O.C.U.S. (Future of Cleveland Under Scrutiny), or the Northeast Ohio Chapter of the Million Mom March to help us stop the violence that surrounds our children, please let me know.   Help us expand and strengthen our outreach services to others; such as, reaching out to parents whose child or other family member has been murdered, families of missing children or adults, candlelight vigils, protests, marches, talking to the kids at schools, community centers, churches, etc.

              On August 2, 2002, we dedicated a Memorial Wall/Wall of Sorrows at 14748-70 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio   44112.   The Memorial Wall, which is 4' x 30', lists the names of over 1,000 children and young adults between the ages of birth through 25 who have been murdered in Cuyahoga County since 1990.   Pictures of the Memorial Wall Building are now included on the website listed below.   [The Memorial Wall/Wall of Sorrows has been taken down, but the Wall, pictures and other things that were put on the building have been stored for safekeeping until we find another location.]   We would like to create a Memorial Wall/Wall of Sorrows Reflection Garden and we currently have two possible locations where we can hopefully rebuild the Memorial Wall .

Judy Martin

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MEMORIAL WALL/WALL OF SORROWS. Join us 5/9/08 at 7 pm at 11300 Superior for the announcement of the relocation of the Memorial Wall/Wall of Sorrow. Weather permitting, on 5/9/08, we will begin cleaning up the area. On 5/10/08, we will power wash the building and on 5/11/08, we will begin
painting the building. On 5/17/08 and 5/18/08, we will begin putting theboards up on the building. If you would like to help, call Judy Martin at 990.0679, or just show up. If you have any tools that will help, please
bring them also.

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Video tributes of the "Memorial Wall/Wall of Sorrows" set to music

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Homicides in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1990 - present)

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF OVER 1,070 CHILDREN (FROM BIRTH THRU 25) WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN CUY. CTY. SINCE 1990:

Totals for 2005 include 10 killed in Iraq who were from Cuyahoga County, of which 6 were between the ages of 0-25.

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There were 452 to 456 citizens from Cuyahoga County killed during the war in Vietnam. That war lasted around 15 years.   As you can see from the above totals, in the 12 full years since 1990, more than 2,000 people have been murdered in Cuyahoga County (almost 4 times as many people who were killed during the Vietnam War).   Out of that number, over 900 of those murders have been of children and young adults.   If you take it one step further, that means approximately 5,000 children and young adults have been killed in Ohio since 1990.   And if you take it another big step, that means that around 100,000 children and young adults have been murdered in this country since 1990.   We have been at war and our children have been in great danger in this country since the late 1980's.   Why haven't we united to stop the violence and save our children?   There's been a holocaust of genocide perpetrated in this country since the late 1980's.   When are we going to do something about this horrendous problem?