Memorial restores a piece of home 5 years after Oso slide
OSO — Gail and Ron Thompson each held onto the ivory canvas as it fluttered in the wind.
Together, they pulled the sheet back to reveal a bronze sculpture of the mailboxes that were there five years ago, at the entrance to the Steelhead Haven neighborhood near Oso.
The crowd cheered as Gail Thompson walked down the line, touching her fingers to her lips and then brushing each one. She and her husband embraced, their former address on Steelhead Drive printed on the back of his shirt.
Their home was once to the left of the mailboxes. Now, in its place are brown, brush-covered dunes.
Families whose loved ones died, along with survivors and first responders, gather each year to remember the 43 lives lost in the Oso mudslide on March 22, 2014.
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