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Event honoring victims of Parkland shooting planned at Pulse memorial

ORLANDO, Fla. — Nearly one year after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, a memorial event is planed at the location of another mass shooting, the former site of Pulse nightclub.

The onePULSE Foundation announced a memorial event to honor the victims of the tragic shooting at the Pulse Interim Memorial.

A banner is on display at the Pulse site that the public can sign and 17 ribbons will be tied to trees at the memorial, one for each of the victims who died in the Parkland shooting.

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Organizers said visitors to Pulse are encouraged to leave “messages of love, hope and support” on the banner.

The banner will stay up until Thursday, when a special memorial service will be held for the victims around 2:15 p.m.

Valentine’s Day will mark one year since the Parkland shooting and the Pulse memorial event will feathure a bell toll during the reading of the victims’ names.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and other community leaders will gather to honor the victims as the bell chimes ring out from the nearby First United Methodist Church.

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