Residents who believed they were safe from American turmoil find themselves — and a nation — confronting reality. “I thought we cared for each other,” said Joe Ruiz, pastor of Templo Cristiano church.
But since Tuesday, when one of Uvalde’s own killed 21 people — including 19 children — at Robb Elementary School, its residents have been forced to consider that they may not have known each other as well as they thought. The town they once called a haven from the pathologies of American life has found itself, and a nation seemingly inured to gun violence, on the brink of despair.
“It’s a wonderful place. We care for each other,” Joe Ruiz, pastor of Templo Cristiano church, said during an interview in his office at the Pentecostal church this week. But no sooner had Ruiz begun his stock defense of Uvalde’s communitarian spirit than he faltered, and looked at his desk.“I thought we cared for each other,” he said, shaking his head. “This shouldn’t happen in Uvalde.”
On Friday morning, Chavez, 65, spoke in Spanish to The Washington Post as she and her granddaughter, Aracely, rolled out flour tortillas in the kitchen.“We all know each other,” she said. “It’s a peaceful, pretty town.”
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