Posted on 09/12/2025 11:22:05 AM PDT by conservative98
Erika Kirk, the widow of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, was photographed waving to supporters who gathered to watch as a motorcade escorted his body to Hansen Mortuary Chapel in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, Sept. 11.
Erika Kirk was seen clutching a cross on a chain as she traveled in a vehicle.
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I saw her getting off the plane and reaching for the hand of JD Vance’s wife as they walked down the stairs together...i had to replay it a few times- really broke my heart
And God bless Usha and JD Vance for immediately going to comfort her.
Erika Kirk holding Charlie’s cross necklace out the window for throngs of supporters lining the streets of Phoenix as she brings her beloved husband’s body home.
In the days, months & years to come, she’ll be leaning on our Lady of Sorrows, her heavenly Mother, who experienced… pic.twitter.com/3n177SaeVB— Rachel Campos-Duffy (@RCamposDuffy) September 12, 2025
Loved that while Charlie was himself an Evangelical, was so respectful of Catholics and acknowledged his and Erika’s attendance to a Saturday vigil this past Easter at a Catholic Church and the beauty of it all.
She’s not “waving”. She’s crying and holding up a cross, I assume to show us she’s leaning on Jesus to get through this.
When I saw the horrible news come in, it was for her and those two beautiful babies who I literally cried for. Just kills me.
I wanted to be there but learned too late
The plight of this young mother and her two kids truly breaks my heart. I can’t look at this stuff without tearing up.
It’s especially hard because Charlie was not some in-your-face bomb-thrower and hate-spewer, everyone who knew him admired him as a good and decent person and he entire public persona was to encourage dialog and mutual respect.
😢
Bless her heart. 😔 🙏
Amen to that.
Amen!
Consequently, people like Kirk (though he represents the pinnacle of this movement) step into the breach and speak for moderation and for balanced, sober discussion of facts. These people take the place of a media that has long since voluntarily and openly surrendered its position in this culture.
He never told people to think his way, but rather to think their own mind and to know that they are not howling in the wilderness. When in college, I never was courageous enough to feel that anyone else held the same views that I did. No one was there for me me!
Silencing one voice will not end the effort. If anything, the Conservative element will certainly consolidate its status and move forward with greater energy...thanks to Charlie Kirk.
Nothing will take the place of Charlie Kirk, he'll be remembered with gratitude and love. No one deserves what was done to him.
Charlie was a role model in so many areas of his life. He was the very epitome of how we should conduct ourselves, even (maybe especially) when we deal with people who differ in opinion or anything else. He would not approve of some the violent responses and revenge mongering that we're seeing on our side.
Facts!
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