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The memorial was created for the victims, survivors, and emergency personnel who responded to the shooting outside a Safeway store where Giffords was holding a meet-and-greet event.
PHOENIX (AP) — As a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol this week, former Rep. Gabby Giffords could only wait nervously for news about her husband, Mark Kelly, who was barely a month into his job as a senator from Arizona. A decade earlier it was Kelly enduring the excruciating wait for news about Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attempted assassination that, like Wednesday’s siege, shocked the nation and prompted a reckoning about the state of politics and discourse in the United States. For some who survived the attack 10 years ago Friday, the violence inside the U.S....
Joshua RobertsGetty Images It was a bright, cold day in Tucson, Arizona on January 8, 2011. I needed a pair of gloves, which you don’t usually need in Tucson. Other than that, I don’t remember much about the day I was shot at point blank range. Eighteen members of my community who were there with me were killed or injured. Like too many other places in America, the shooting changed our community, and the trajectory of my life. When I think about that tragic event 10 years ago today, I try not to dwell or focus on the suffering and hardship the victims and survivors endured. Instead, I re...
Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021 By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press Victims in Gabrielle Giffords attack see parallel to Capitol riot Share Updated: 12:24 PM PST Jan 8, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I've known the darkest of days, days of pain and uncharted recovery. But confronted by despair, I've someone's hope. Confronted by paralysis and aphasia, I responded with grit and determination. I put 1 ft in front of the other. I've found one word and then I found another. My re...