Wednesday was the longest night of 2012, the winter solstice. All over the United States, communities gathered to mourn the homeless who died without an address.
At Sarasota’s Salvation Army campus on 10th Street, a crowd gathered to pray and remember.
“It’s balmy here tonight,” said Salvation Army Major Philip Murphy. “But it’s not so nice across the country."
At this annual event, it was not balmy at all for the last two years. It was freezing. Even in the warm temperatures, the memorial was short – but with memorable moments. Father Jim Nilon’s invocation called, “For those who wander in isolation and loneliness, we pray.”
Music was a part of the ceremony, which opened with a solo bagpiper from the Sarasota Military Academy, only two blocks away. It closed with former Sarasota City Commissioner Danny Bilyeu
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