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Kappamd, the entire city of Tucson is devastated. We cannot get away from this. It is raw and painful beyond imagination.
I have a heightened compassion for the people of NYC, Oklahoma City, and other areas where there have been horrific and violent acts. Tucson has retained much of a "small town" feel (as I wrote earlier) and the legal community is shaken to the core. The medical community is feeling the effects, and law enforcement is stressed to the limit with all the attention and activity since Saturday. The community is pulling together as many resources as possible to support the children in Christina-Taylor Green's school, as well as other children throughout the community.
It could have been any Safeway, on any corner, in Tucson, on any Saturday. Gabby Giffords has been conducting "Congress On Your Corner" since her first term in office. John Roll was headed home from mass, and he stopped in to say hello to Gabby and thank her for supporting him in his efforts to get relief for the overburdened Federal Courts (due to the sheer volume of immigration cases stemming from our proximity to the Mexican border). Other people were there to meet our Representative; she has always been accessible to her constituency. It was just another Saturday morning...and then it wasn't.
It will never been the same here. We are picking up the pieces, we are planning funerals and memorials, we are going about the business of death, and life will go on.
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"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." Bertrand Russell, The Triumph of Stupidity
Last edited by AZTheta; 01-11-2011 at 11:15 AM.
Reason: thank you Drole...
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