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Gustavo Arellano: A vigil for a long-ago plane crash shows how to remember the lives of the dead

LOS ANGELES — It has been a January of vigils for California. For the Central Valley town of Goshen, after gunmen killed six members of a family, including a 16-year-old mother and her infant son. For Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed at a dance studio just hours after the city's Lunar New Year celebration. For Half Moon Bay, where a farmworker is accused of fatally shooting seven ...
Poster boards with photos of some of the victims of a 1948 plane crash in Los Gatos Canyon in Central California.

LOS ANGELES — It has been a January of vigils for California.

For the Central Valley town of Goshen, after gunmen killed six members of a family, including a 16-year-old mother and her infant son.

For Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed at a dance studio just hours after the city's Lunar New Year celebration.

For Half Moon Bay, where a farmworker is accused of fatally shooting seven people, many of them his colleagues.

Last Friday evening in downtown Los Angeles, there were more commemorations for other deadly tragedies.

Mourners gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters in memory of and , Black men who lost their lives after encounters with

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