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off to work. and gerald read's wife, kathy, said, see you tonight for dinner. and john johnson looked at his wife, judy, and said what he always said whenever they parted. good-bye, beautiful. i love you so much. even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of god. what robert kennedy understood, what dr. king understood, what all our great leaders have always understood is that wisdom does not come from tragedy alone or from some sense of resignation in the fallibility of man. wisdom comes through the recognition that tragedies such
you know them. they're your neighbors. like arthur daniels, out there on the weekend polishing his white crown victoria. and kenneth proctor with his beloved yellow mustang, who if you asked, would fix your car, too. he was the friendly face at the store. sylvia frasier with her unforgettable gold hair who took a second job at walmart because she said she just loved working with people. she was the die hard fan you sat next to at the game. kathy gaarde loved her hockey and her caps. season ticketholder for 25 years. there were the volunteers who made your community better. frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in his county. marty bodrog leading the children's bible study at church. they lived the american dream.
these are our fallen colleagues: michael wells arnold. martin john bodrog. martin lee daniels. renee frazier. kathy gaarde. john roger johnson. mary francis knight. frank kohler. vishnu pandit.
families. these are our fallen colleagues. michael wells arnold. arnold. [ bell tolls ] >> martin john bodrog. [ bell tolls ] >> argument ur larthur lee dani. sylvia lorain frasier, kathy gaarde. john roger johnson. mary francis knight. frank edwin kohler.
like arthur dan yells on the weekend polishing his white crown victoria. kenneth proctor with his beloved we mustang, the friendly face at store and sylvia frazier who took a second job at wal-mart because she loved working with people. and a diehard began you sat next to at the again, kathy loved her hockey and his cats ticket holder for 25 years. the volunteers who made your community better, frank kohler giving dictionaries to every third grader in the county and another leading the children's bible study at church.
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dogs. i'll go down to the parking lot down there and meet kathy there, hopefully and i got down there and it was probably about that time, i guess it was about 7:00 or so, they were down to the last, there was about maybe four or five series of buses still coming through. but just the later it got the more desperate i got. it wasn't until later that i had got an call if one of my wife's co-workers who said she had talked to some of her co-workers and they had seen kathy was one of the ones that was hit. and at that point. >> one of her co-workers actually saw her? >> yeah, saw that she was one of the ones that had been hit and at that point i kind of said, lock, this is crap. you know, you guys, you got to tell me what's going on. it was at that point that they went back to the further end behind the gates of the stadium there and came back out and they said, yeah, she was one of the
what pops up in a background check? >> i think people are still going to ask the questions. if firearms were discharged whether he was charged or not they're going to ask questions and want to know does he have a violent history, does he have mental illness. what caused it, what's the motivation for those actions. those are the hard questions that are going to be asked. on the heels of this there will be policy and process reviews to be done. >> shawn, fran, thank you very much. up ahead i'm going to speak with the husband and daughter of kathy gaarde. they want you to know about her life, the life she lived, the woman she was, the loving wife and mom who's been taken from them. we'll hear from them next. >> i have these periods of numbness where it's like the water is receding and i just feel nothing. something whether it be a bill on the counter or heck i was in the bathroom and she recently bought me new towels and i just see the towels. and it just all hits. [ tires screech ]
down there and meet kathy there, hopefully. and i got down there and it was probably about that time. i guess it was about 7:00 or so. there was about, maybe, four or five series of buses still coming through. but just the later it got, the more desperate i got. it wasn't until later that i'd gotten the call from one of my wife's co-workers who said that she had talked to some of her co-workers and that they had seen kathy was one of the ones who was hit. >> one of her co-workers actually saw her? >> yeah. saw that she was one of the ones who had been hit. and at that point i kind of said, look, this is crap. you guys -- you got to tell me what's going on. then it was at that point that they went back to the room, farther in behind the gates of the stadium there. and came back out and they said, yeah, she was one of the ones. that was it.
took care of her aging mom until her mom died just last year at the age of 94. she also loved professional ice hockey. for years they had season tickets to the washington capitals. she had a soft spot in her heart for animals. we feel it's essential really to remember those whose lives have been taken, to remember the people that they were, the lives that they lived. people who innocently went to work yesterday morning never to return again to their families. in their grief today, douglas gaarde and his daughter spoke to us about kathy. >> what do you want people to know about kathy? >> i guess what i want them to know most about her what a caring person she was, particularly how she cared about her family. as i mentioned, we took care or she took care of her mother who's lived with us for ten years. she moved here when she was about 85, lived here until she was 94. and that's a lot to take on when you're a full-time mom and a full-time worker.