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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 19, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13 Aily Magazine a photo san Diego police officer helping injured woman from scene of carnage last a year after Mcdonalds massacre the Healing has Only begun by Alan l Adler associated press t Hose who survived the worst single Day massacre by a Lone gunman in United states history have recovered from their physical the emotional Healing has barely at last july a hot summer wednesday in san James Oliver Huberty walked into a bustling Mcdonalds restaurant with three guns and a bag of seventy seven minutes 22 peo including hit by a police sharpshooters were Twenty others Lay the Book on the san Ysidro Mcdon ads massacre is in its very much Mcdonalds demolished the restaurant where the car nage a new Mcdonalds is open three blocks North on san Ysidro the old lot is Barren save for debris and a few Mcdonalds gave the land to san which oversees san but the City has yet to decide what to do with among the options is a memorial Park an idea passionately embraced by some and fervently opposed by others in that largely hispanic Community of a mile North of the families of the victims remain reluctant to talk to one social service worker said some Are near emotional because they have not been Al Lowed to nor have police been Able to forget what happened As they stood helplessly the psychologist for the police department said Many of the officers who were on the scene have exhibited symptoms of Post traumatic stress an affliction suffered by some Vietnam War the Healing has at the san Ysidro mental health Arlen Vorst cog said fewer than 20 of the 156 people who sought help there after the incident Are still seeing a therapy group formed after the massacre held its last meeting in time has certainly been a major he a year seems to be sort of a Benchmark time there arc a few who still have sonic ongoing Olga Wright lost her daughter and infant grandson to Hubertus pictures of Jacquelyn who was and Little Carlos Reyes Are perched on her she refers to their assailant Only As that Reyes still cries when she talks about the but in her own much of it through she said she has started putting the incident behind a 41yearold unemployed Security left a and two Young who still lives in san Diego was unavailable for an interview because of her actor Paul during the past she has adjusted to the Situa Tion Well and Hopes to live a Normal and productive Kerrigan she is surviving on real estate properties that she has owned for some she in the be seeking Mike chief psychologist for the san Diego police said the massacre profoundly affected the de a Survey of 175 officers conducted in december and january included More than 100 directly involved at the massacre the officers Mantell ran the Gamut of psychological no one presented a profile that was of such concern that they were of danger to themselves or Man Tell but the emotional pain and he was they used everything they could to get Over behavioural thinking there was no particular coping style that seemed to work better than any he Al a beat cop in san Ysidro for sever was among the first officers on the Vitela was also at the crash of a Pacific Southwest airlines plane that killed 144 people in san Diego in september both were he but they were you knew that there were people who were alive and you  do with the spa there were no you have the helplessness of where it says to protect and serve on your car and youre not Able to do Andrea executive vice president of Casa a a hispanic social service has spent much of the year evaluating claims for benefits from a million survivors but she said survivors and families of victims needed their privacy As much As financial there has been no prolonged period of respite from she ticking off events that have kept the incident and its victims in the recently there was the cab let broadcast of a Home Box office special called acts of violence that featured the in a Hollywood producer came to san Ysidro planning to do a documentary on the Inci he changed his mind after residents reacted neg All of these things have required reporters to go out and elicit some Skorepa in a Normal situation when you lose someone in your by the end of the you Are Able to largely put it behind but these people have had no there at the breaking Point the starkest reminder of the the Mcdonalds is Likely to remain vacant for some san Diego has done nothing with the land because of emotions surrounding the Park opponents fear a Park would glorify Hubertus crime rather than memorialize his the City manager is looking at All the said Danny an aide to san Diego City councilman Uvaldo whose District includes san other options include additional parking for the Post located next or another the Only stipulations from Mcdonalds were that no other restau rant be built and that any memorial not include the company were following the Lead of the people of san Ysidro and trying to put this behind said Dick a Mcdonalds spokesman in Oak weve re opened in san and weve become part of the Community again As we promised we  
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