CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) Around 150 people filled the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library Wednesday evening for the annual On Wings of Love ceremony. It was the 19th year for the event, organized by the office of the 19th Judicial District Attorney General, which remembers victims of homicide.
Family members and friends who have lost loved ones to homicide placed special ornaments on a Christmas tree inside the library. Each person or family came forward and announced who the ornament was in memory of. Other volunteers and law enforcement personnel with the Clarksville Police Department and Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office also placed ornaments on the tree.
Many of the ornaments had photos and brief notes about the victims who have lost their lives. Those speaking at the ceremony included Assistant District Attorney General Kimberly Lund and Fairlen Browning with the Montgomery County Chapter of Parents of Murdered Children.