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By Eric M. Johnson DARRINGTON, Washington (Reuters) - Survivors of a mudslide in Washington state that has left dozens dead or missing say they favor turning the area into a shrine to honor those who perished once the bulldozers clear away the destruction wrought by a vast wall of debris. Rescue teams pressed on for an 11th day of efforts to find victims of the slide, triggered when a rain-soaked hillside collapsed above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River, northeast of Seattle. Ruth Hargrave, 67, her neighbors making up many of the dead and missing, said she could not imagine rebuilding her beloved riverside vacation house that was in the path of the slide. Jan Kittelson, 59, a truck driver living in Darrington, 10 miles to the east, said he would like to see the site turned into a shrine.
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