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Cindy Lutz, a visitor at the memorial, said, "This is the first opportunity I've had to come by and because of the wind I was really afraid it may not even be here."

There was a station set up with tiles and paint to create more weatherproof messages, but it was clear that something needed to be done.

Chrystal Carpenter, the Manuscript and Congressional Archivist for Special Collections at the University of Arizona Library, said the timing to start archiving the memorial was key.

"So there was a transition period in trying to let people know that the sites were closing and so forth...in that way the timing, we definitely waited a couple of weeks longer to kind of help with that," said Carpenter.

Even when the day came to start packing up the memorial, there were still people paying their respect to the victims. Margie Neish, a nurse at the hospital, volunteered to help pack up the items because to her, this was a little personal.

"My daughter worked for Gabby Giffords for a couple years and my husband was working with Gabe Zimmerman on a project," said Neish.

The keepsakes do not yet have a permanent home, but Neish shares the same sentiment with many.

"I think that by archiving it, saving it, hopefully turning it into something that everybody can see, touch, fell, will help the community continue to heal," said Neish.