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"makeshift memorial" is a temporary or improvised tribute created by people to honor and remember a person or event. It is not a permanent structure, but rather something put together quickly with available materials as a way to show respect and remembrance.
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- So on March 15 — one month and one day after the Stoneman Douglas shooting — Schwartz and a team of volunteer conservators will begin preserving objects left at makeshift memorials for the 17 students and faculty killed in the massacre. (sun-sentinel.com)
- After the shooting, residents erected a large makeshift memorial outside the school. (local10.com)
- The area was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, and today its littered, winding streets are pockmarked with boarded - up homes and corners that serve as makeshift memorials for victims of gun violence. (leaders.edweek.org)
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