I Need President Clinton Tonight

As I watched the Tucson Memorial tonight, I kept asking myself this hypothetical question - if I had lost someone close to me last Saturday morning, would this event have helped me feel better?

I personally wanted to feel bad. I wanted to feel sad. I have felt a loss that I am not sure can be recovered. I admit I was disappointed and needed more from President Obama. I really needed the crowd to be quiet and reverent. Yet, I understand the need to celebrate the lives lost, the people recovering, and the people who were traumatized by witnessing such a tragedy and assisting in its aftermath.

Nobody could explain events to me or make me feel better more than President Clinton. As the magnet on my refrigerator says, I miss Bill. I have really missed him this week and especially tonight.

We should do everything we can do to make sure our country lives up to our
children's expectations. ~ President Obama

From the 09/11/2001 book, Faces of Hope, for the fifty babies born on that day 
written on each side of a picture were wishes for a child's life: 

I hope you help those in need.

I hope you know all the words to the National Anthem and sing it with your hand over your heart.

I hope you jump in rain puddles.

If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today.

Here on this earth, we place our hands over our hearts and we commit ourselves as Americans

to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle and happy spirit.

~ President Obama