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And also bill halliman. her husband is currently undergoing surgery now, and if you d like to talk to them they ll be available here. and i m going to coordinate that with katy riley here, our p.o. officer. so we ll go ahead and excuse the physicians out of here, but we ll go ahead and start with mrs. stoddard s family. if you d like to come up. what you can do, ma am-s you can start off way statement if you d like or we can go into some questions and answers. i d like to start with a statement. yes, please. thank you for being here. we ve been rather hesitant to discuss this. i think my first statement, our first statement as a family, we speak for dorwin s daughters, four sons, as well as our sisters. there are four of us. i think our first statement would be we d like to compliment the hero that lie in our father and we re just blessed that he s walking with the lord now, but what a way to go. ....
For sure. and we always want to be a little nebulous about that. but we do think from the expertise that they re giving to us it probably went in from the front and came out the back. can i ask miss stoddard a question, please? we were speaking with mike nowak, who is your mom s pastor, yesterday. yes. he said he d spoken with your mom and said that mavy felt that dorwin had really saved her life. absolutely. she did feel that way. he heard the shots and covered my mom with his own body, protected her and saved her, yes. mom definitely felt that way. i think further of that is because as dad lay dying mom didn t know she d been hurt. she thought that she was holding ....
Daughter died in the arms of his they were inseparable. her life will go on thanks to dorwin. the husband dove on top of her as the shooting begin. the attack killed giffords director of community outreach, gabe zimmerman. so young and vibrant. that is why he wanted to devote his life. zimmerman was 30 years old and engaged to be married. federal judge john roll had stopped by the event after mass to say hi to the congresswoman. very high energy guy. everything was done at a very high energy level. but at the same time, sweet, nice, just a lovely man. ....
Grandfather was a manager of the mets and yankees and she is survived by an 11-year-old brother, also named dallas. bill: rick, thank you. rick leventhal with their stories. martha: the more we learn about these people the more remarkable the stories and one of the victims that rick just mentioned was 76-year-old dorwin stoddard, he retired from construction and became a much beloved volunteer at his church, dor win and his wife had gone to see congresswoman giffords at that sraepbt. she, wis life his wife, was shot in the leg, she is recovering in the hospital, where we ve seen so many of the reporters shots we have shown you. witnesses say that dorwin literally died protecting his wife from the gunfire. it is a regardingable story and we want to share it with you now. jessa knapp joins me, a friend of dorwin stoddard. it is good to have you with us to tell you their story. hello. jessica, tell me what you ve heard about what happened that day to your two friends. ....
Disturbing the service, and dorwin fell through the roof twice building the room. [laughter] so mabe was always worried that he was not going to make it from one of his shenanigans, doing all sorts of crazy stuff at the church, and we have a screen, a projector, that he put up, and right now, there are two scrapes down the wall where a 25-foot ladder he was standing on fell. martha: oh my. but you know, dorwin would get back up, dust himself off and go back to whatever task it was. so yeah. martha: you know, jess jess cash i m glad you joined us. hearing these stories is part of the grieving process, it s part of understanding the loss that these people, who this young man apparently took these lives and think it s important for people to understand the impact that each one of these individuals had on the people in their own community and why their lives were so very important to those around them. so i thank you, because you did that for us today, and you know, you brought him t ....