It's not like it's just the family that created this, and I'm sure they weren't the ones to start it. It was the community. The neighborhood, the schoolmates, the community created this. The police and parks department have obviously chosen to leave it as is. The family, I believe, tends to it to some extent.

My understanding is that the family did not create the memorial but had been tending to it so it wouldn't be neglected.

Wait - the barricade is there because it's supposed to be there, whether the stuff is on it or not - correct? Your comment makes it sound like the memorial is blocking off something that's supposed to be un-blocked.

It wasn't just the family. It was the community. It was his classmates. It was neighbors. This woman was not taking action that goes along with other neighbors feeling put out by the memorial. I'm sure she deeply offended most of her neighbors by doing this.

It's hard to say what the unspoken limits are or who gets to decide, but this really was not just the family putting up a memorial - many people in the community had added to it, including lots of kids who went to school with Sammy. It was on a barricade that sits by the park - right by where the family lives, right…

Thank you. <3

Thank you. For everything.

I wonder if your mom might appreciate the chance to talk about your brother? Obviously it's hard for me to say, not knowing her and also he was so young and it was so long ago. Thank you so much for sharing about your family with me, and for the link as well.

<3.

Thank you.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

Thank you. I'm so sorry about your grandma, and for your loss of your dad, and at such a young age for you. So unfair.

Thank you so much. How Banjo can go through life with this loss is somewhat inconceivable to me. I know that people say that they can't imagine what I'm going through, and to some extent it's true but to another I know there must be a piece of them imagining.... but for B to have lost his brother - it's just beyond…

I'm so sorry.

Thank you. I am so sorry for your loss, and for your other brother's pain as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm sorry for your loss, and thank you. I felt strong when he was sick, but now I don't feel like I am - it's just that I still have a living son, so I have no choice but to be alive.

Thank you, and I'm sorry for your loss. Your mom must have been an incredible woman to express such a generous sentiment.

Thank you. His name was Caleb - Caleb Mazal. His Hebrew name was Chaim Mazal - "lucky life."