If you're not prepared to cry, then don't watch this.
John Green, father of murder victim Christina Green, shows remarkable wisdom and poise in the wake of his daughter's death in the Gifford shooting. Christina was born on 9/11 of 2001.
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This is a Today show interview with Roxanna and John Green, the parents of 9 year old Christina Green, who was born on September 11, 2001 and was killed in the Tucson shooting on Saturday. Roxanna talks about how their daughter dealt with being born on such a horrible day by looking forward to a better future. And, as Hot Air's Ed Morrissey notes, John Green personifies "heartbreaking grace and tremendous courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy."
"We're going to remember her for the nine years we had her," says Green, who continues:
This shouldn't happen in this country, or anywhere else, but in a free society, we're going to be subject to people like this. I prefer this to the alternative.
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Born on Sept. 11, Claimed by a New Horror
Christina Green was on the student council of her elementary school, so on Saturday her mother’s friend thought she might enjoy seeing government in action: the local congresswoman meeting with constituents outside a supermarket near Christina’s home.
“I allowed her to go, thinking it would be an innocent thing,” said the girl’s mother, Roxanna Green, 45.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/us/10green.html?_r=1