Scene of the crime: After tragedy, what remains?

Aurora. Columbine. Boston: What happens to sites of violence after the fact?

By AJ Willingham

updated 2:06 PM EDT, Wed April 24, 2013

What should you do with a place that has seen such horrors as the Boston bombing? Or the shootings in Newtown and Aurora, the terror of 9/11: Do you destroy it? Do you change it? Or do you carry on?

History has shown us there is no right answer. For every site of mass casualties, there has been a different response. However, all of the solutions have aimed to convey the same emotions: hope, strength and solidarity among survivors.

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