Posted on 01/08/2011 8:23:09 PM PST by RummyChick
Christina Taylor Green, nine-year-old victim in today's Tucson shootings, once was an infant designated to be a "Face of Hope" by virtue of her birth on September 11, 2001. She was one of the children born on 9/11 to be featured in the book by Christine Pisera Naman which was dedicated to all the babies born on the day the World Trade Towers in New York City were taken down in an act of terrorism.
Ironically, today her life ended in violence, as she fell under the attack of a gunman at a political function at a supermarket.
A neighbor was going to the Giffords event today, the Arizona Republic reports, and invited Christina along simply because she thought she would enjoy it, according to Christina's uncle, Greg Segalini. Christina was newly elected to the student council at her school.
The event, an opportunity for constituents to meet Giffords and discuss any concerns they had related to the federal government, was an outdoor family friendly event.
A talented girl, Christina Green participated in many activities, ranging from ballet to baseball.
"How do you prepare for something like this? My little niece got killed--took one on the chest and she is dead," Segalini reportedly said outside the girl's house.
The public yields a stunned assent.
"She was born on 9-11 and died today? That's the most tragic thing I've ever heard," a Facebook comment asserts.
Christina's page in Faces of Hope reads: I hope you know all the words to the Star Spangled Banner and sing it with your hand over your heart. I hope you jump in rain puddles (p. 42).
according to that site..which obviously had their info wrong.
but the girl was in the Faces of Hope book
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-congresswoman-shot-in-head-by-gunman-20110109-19jmp.html
Well, that is until someone comes along and says that report is wrong as well.
the eyes in the baby photo do look like the 9 year old girl’s eyes.
Let’s also pray for all of the others.
I wonder if the tattooed girl is her mother???
I guess we will have to wait to see what comes out next.
You are right.
The only ‘target’ that I’ve seen so far was the one posted by DK.
Why’d you use the blurry font to post this? Prayers up for her loved ones. So tragic.
This breaks my heart. I hope that bastard is held acountable for what he did. The sad fact is if such a high profile person hadnt been shot the congresswoman and the judge for that matter this little angle wouldnt even have been mentioned. May she be with God I am totally crying right now just sensless.
She died on the 8th.
RIP, ... so sad.
This putting Giffords or any other liberal candidate in the “crosshairs” is no different than Nancy Pelosi’s putting a target on Michele Bachamann or any of the other republican candidates she was out to defeat. It is a figure of speech on both sides and for the liberals to try, as is going on with Horaldo’s show on FOX, has got to stop. The republicans can do this if they pull up all the comments made by the liberal side against conservatives.
This whole kind of discourse has to stop because if it does not it will tear this nation apart...this whole thing is very dangerous.
Arizona is a warning order that we need to get our national house in order from boarder safety and control to the abolition of 0bamacare and Cap and Trade. We have to get back to the point where we recognize us as Americans first and embrace some form of National pride..too many in the realm of media and politics are working to destroy that.
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Those killed today: Christina Greene, 9, Gabe Zimmerman, 30, John Roll, 63, Dorthy Murray, 76, Dorwin Stoddard, 76, Phyllis Scheck, 79
These sorts of incidents reaffirm my belief in capital punishment...
These sorts of incidents reaffirm my belief in capital punishment...
Horrible. From a child all the way through to the elderly. Why in the world would anybody have done this?
It breaks my heart. Nothing more to say.
the shooting was ‘yesterday’ the 8th
You had me really spooked...
Prayers for suffering innocents.
Prayers up for the families and friends of all who have been wounded or killed, and prayers for a complete recovery for the injured.
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