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A survivor so young he stepped on a stool to reach a podium microphone, remembered his heart "whacking like a sledgehammer" in the moments before a flash flood swept he and his family away nearly two weeks ago.
Joseph Jessop Jr. spoke Saturday during a rare public memorial service hosted by two often-secretive polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona border that typically shun outsiders and loathe government interference.
Funerals have previously been handled discreetly, with no invitations extended to outsiders, including family of the deceased, if they aren't members of this sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Nine of 12 bodies recovered have already been buried in a town cemetery with modest markers.
Twin Polygamous Towns Host Memorial for 13 Who Died in Flood
It's tragic that it takes a funeral to even acknowledge the existence of people.
Joseph Jessop Jr. spoke Saturday during a rare public memorial service hosted by two often-secretive polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona border that typically shun outsiders and loathe government interference.
Funerals have previously been handled discreetly, with no invitations extended to outsiders, including family of the deceased, if they aren't members of this sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Nine of 12 bodies recovered have already been buried in a town cemetery with modest markers.
Twin Polygamous Towns Host Memorial for 13 Who Died in Flood
It's tragic that it takes a funeral to even acknowledge the existence of people.
