On Thursday, January 27, Jack and I along with our friends, Dan and Barb, drove two hours south from Mesa to Tucson. On Saturday morning, January 8, a mentally disturbed gunman, came to a local Safeway grocery store and shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in the head and sprayed the crowd with gunfire. Six people lost their lives that day including a nine year old girl, Christina-Taylor Green. Ten more were wounded. Gabby Giffords remains in hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the head but appears to be making good progress.
We drove to the Safeway store and looked at the memorial that has sprung up there. A truly sobering scene when one realizes that people actually died on the pavement in front of that store. There are no words to express how you feel when you stand there. Such senselessness! Such evil!
Then we drove to the nearby University Hospital to see the memorial on the front lawn there. So many expressing desires for peace, understanding and an end to violence.