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...Death of Virgil Ware...
Larry Joe Sims shot and killed Virgil Ware, 13, in 1963 in Birmingham, Ala. [TIME IN DEPTH, Sept. 22]. If Sims really wishes to make amends to Ware's family, he could pay for a proper burial for the child. Perhaps it could be in the same cemetery where the four little black girls who died in the Baptist-church bombing are buried. Sims could erect an appropriate memorial at the burial site to replace the unmarked grave in which Ware now lies. Alternatively, a memorial fund for Virgil Ware could be established. I would be happy to make...
...James adds, the ordeal "made our family realize there was a civil rights movement going on and we could make Virgil's death be a part of that." It didn't exactly work out that way. The movement wanted Lorene Ware to hit the stump, but because speaking publicly about Virgil's killing was too painful for her, his story faded away, an obscure, salt-in-the-wound footnote to the Sixteenth Street Church bombing...
That progress owes plenty to people like Virgil Ware. He still lies in a nondescript grave marked only by blue carnations and hidden in a thick roadside forest. Each Mother's Day, his sister Joyce clears the overgrowth. "When we hit the lottery, we're going to move you," she tells him as she works. In the warmest months, swarms of fireflies illuminate the site--innocent reminders of the larger conflagrations that swept through Birmingham in the summer...
...VIRGIL: Forty years ago this week Virgil Ware, 13, became the sixth black person killed one day in Birmingham, Ala., shot by a 16-year-old white boy. Time revisits his life and his killer and examines the ongoing role of his story and those like it in the city once called Bombingham...