The dead:
Dorothy Morris, 76
Dorwin Stoddard, 76
Phyllis Schneck, 79
Gabe Zimmerman, 30
Christina Taylor Green, 9
John Roll
9 of the 14 wounded:
Gabrielle Giffords, 40
Bill Badger, 74
Ron Barber, 65
Eric Fuller, 63
Susan Hileman
George Morris
Mary Reed
Pam Simon
Mavy Stoddard
All of this at the hands of
Jared Loughner, 22. (Is he a victim too?)
It's been half a week or so and everyone has something to say. Everyone has a lesson learned and one to teach. I just can't find it in me to say anything. At all. These are people and now they are dead. It's not even in me to say "it didn't have to be this way." Of course it didn't. Everyone will keep talking. But I think their names speak most poignantly.