couldn t fathom they had but days to live. hundreds more facing injuries from which they could face weeks, months, if not years from which to recover. a week ago today, we were focused on a president and his fax cuts under fire, unaware all we would soon be talking about is those gathered for a concert on the las vegas night, very much under fire. a week ago today, so many just planning funerals. an unimaginable event. incomprehensible now. impossible then. reality now. they say time is cruel because you never know as if it is any less cruel looking back because you do know. that s the tough part. in a world where we get so used to tragedies, a week ago today we just weren t prepared for this one.
anyone could ever hope to offer for us. it was general kelly who bestowed the purple heart on you in texas some years ago, and i know when we spoke, you initially wanted to decline it, from what i understand. you just couldn t fathom expecting an award for an event that took your son s life is part of the reason, but you finally agreed because of your respect for his son, lieutenant kelly. can you just tell me about the moments when you finally were face to face with the general? well, in the marine corps, you have to accept you don t have to accept you don t have to have a ceremony for the medal, it will just hit your paperwork. there wasn t a significant amount of officers i had respect for. because lieutenant kelly passed away, i didn t feel the need for it. but general kelly, the place he holds in my heart for his son and his family was you know, when he asked me to accept it from him, even though a higher
what you just said, because that was one of the alarming things to me when i was rioting around ferguson as we were dealing with a lot of these issues. they don t have a grocery store in the community, but have two liquor stores. people around the country couldn t fathom, you can t go buy a carton of milk for your child in the neighborhood. but you can get booze. how does the mayor and those in the city not try and repair that and try to deal with that and address that? the it s very important that we have a mayor that s going to look at all these grocery stores with these liquor license that are planted in the african american community and say enough is enough. we are not looking to put nobody out of business. but we are looking to have quality stores that are going to service our people. when a mother need pampers or
i was saying, please, you know, please don t kill mom. and she was laying in the hallway and blood was coming out of her mouth. and before i had saw that, i looked in the room beside and my uncle tony was laying face down. i knew he was probably dead. it was lindsay who ran to a neighbor s house to call 911. but by then, her mother, uncle and aunt were already dead. i really couldn t fathom what was to come of our life. today lindsay lives in a small rural town on the florida panhandle with her husband, two young children and a menagerie of pets. sometimes i like to just come and sit outside and just look around. it s our own little sanctuary. but the past never fades away. lindsay still cherishes memories of her mother. i like this picture because
and she was laying in the hallway and blood was coming out of her mouth. and before i had saw that, i looked in the room beside and my uncle tony was laying face down. i knew he was probably dead. it was lindsay who ran to a neighbor s house to call 911. but by then, her mother, uncle and aunt were already dead. i really couldn t fathom what was to come of our life. today lindsay lives in a small rural town on the florida panhandle with her husband, two young children and a menagerie of pets. sometimes i like to just come and sit outside and just look around. it s our own little sanctuary. but the past never fades away. lindsay still cherishes memories of her mother. i like this picture because