A Desolate Cemetery, Unmarked Graves, and the People Who Don’t Forget

PHOENIX, Ariz.—The rising sun was getting dangerously hot as another day of 105-plus degree heat was about to break in southern Arizona in the middle of July. Bruce, 33, was homeless, shirtless, and wearing cargo shorts and sneakers when an Epoch Times reporter found him sitting against a building on South 11th Ave. in Phoenix. He’d been desperately seeking relief in the cool spray of a patio mister; the thought of dying from heat exposure was a constant reminder of how precarious his life had become. “This is the worst summer we’ve had so far,” Bruce said, his tattooed upper body dripping with sweat. He said survival was a simple calculus: Stay close to social services, drink plenty of water, and live to see the sun go down....