"Let Us Not Forget Them!"
Information on a Milwaukee cemetery resting place for over 1,000 aborted babies, including the "little people":
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Milwaukee County Medical Examiner report - May 1984 - "Little People"
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May, 2024
Remember the "Little People!
The children knew when they saw them, calling the mangled bodies of aborted babies they found, "little people", and saying, "We found some legs, and the arms, and the heads."
40th Anniversary of Burial of Milwaukee's "Little People"
Forty years ago, Milwaukeeans were shaken by the news: Young children playing in a NW area of the city discovered in a garbage dumpster the mangled bodies of aborted babies.
One little girl interviewed by a local TV station said, "We found some legs, the arms, and the heads."
It was later reported that a driver for a local laboratory, making rounds at a number of medical clinics and offices, picked up at one of her stops - a Milwaukee abortion center - the bodies of aborted babies to be taken to the laboratory apparently for analysis and disposal.
According to news reports, the driver became nauseated as a result of the odor and decided to dump the tiny bodies into a dumpster located at one of her next stops. Later some young children playing in the area looked into the dumpster and found what they later described to police as "little people".
With Milwaukee County's permission, the cooperation of Milwaukee Archdiocesan Cemetery officials, and the help of concerned citizens, arrangements were made to bury these "little people" in a dignified and prayerful manner in the Children's Section of Milwaukee's Holy Cross Cemetery. For more background information, see attached "Let Us Not Forget Them" brochure, and for some very impactful TV news coverage from the incident, see links below.
1984 TV coverage - approx. 20 minutes
misc. clips from 1984 TV coverage - approx. 2 minutes
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Let Us Not Forget Them!
This month as we remember the 40th anniversary of the burial of the "Little People", we ask you to remember these victims of abortion, and all victims of abortion, including the women who have been pressured and coerced into thinking killing their child was "the best choice under the circumstances", like the women who come to the cemetery to mourn their "choice".
Our country cannot continue this slaughter. The decades-long division needs to cease. All of us are capable of coming together to solve our problems humanely. We must believe we can change. We must demand change!
PLEASE:
1) spend a moment in thought and prayer to remember these children, and their mothers and fathers...
2) consider making a visit sometime (especially this May) to Holy Cross Cemetery to mourn their deaths and bring a flower to place on their grave,
3) pray for healing and forgiveness of all involved in abortion,
4) and commit to work for a country where the lives of children before as well as after birth will be respected and protected.
These children should not be forgotten!
Above photo: Children place flowers on the tiny caskets containing the remains of aborted babies who were buried in a solemn ecumenical service at the Children's Section of Milwaukee's Holy Cross Cemetery on Saturday, May 26, 1984. More than 200 people attended the service for the "Little People." (Photo courtesy Catholic Herald)
The attached "Let Us Not Forget Them" brochure has background information on the "Little People", plus the approximately 1,200 other aborted babies buried very nearby in the same Children's Section in 1988.
NOTE: For those wishing to visit and pray at these graves, the Children’s Section of Holy Cross Cemetery is located in the northwest part of the cemetery, just south of the administration building. The cemetery’s address is: 7301 W. Nash St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53216. The "Little People" gravestone is approximately 40 feet north of the other aborted babies and the main "Sanctity of Life" monument. The gravestone is inscribed, "Holy Innocents - 'Little People' 1984". (See photo in attached brochure.)
While our focus now is on remembering these "little people" buried 40 years ago on Memorial Day weekend - May 26, 1984 - we recall with even greater concern the bodies of over 1,200 other aborted babies buried nearby just 4 years later on Sept. 10, 1988.
Forty years later, we, as a country, have not learned our lesson. The abortion nightmare continues: killing children, maiming mothers and fathers, and destroying justice and compassion.
Above photo: Children place flowers on the tiny caskets containing the remains of aborted babies who were buried in a solemn ecumenical service at the Children's Section of Milwaukee's Holy Cross Cemetery on Saturday, May 26, 1984. More than 200 people attended the service for the "Little People." (Photo courtesy Catholic Herald)
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