Guests place flowers and soil on a memorial honoring individuals who donated their bodies to the University of Texas Health Science Center during the school's annual ceremony on Wednesday, Apr. 27, 2016. The event honored the human donors used in the education of students at UTHSC and took place at Memorial Park near The Robert F. McDermott Clinical Science building at Greehey Academic & Research Campus. Student representatives from the Health Science Center's schools gave brief speeches about the anatomy lessons and life lessons they have learned from their first patients, the deceased human donors who altruistically gave their bodies to science. An AirLife helicopter flyover commenced the ceremony, songs by UTSA graduate vocal students, and the Fort Sam Houston Memorial Detachment Services unit performed the presentation of the flag in memory of body donors who served in the military. About 200 medical students along with donors' families attended the event.
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