For Arizona Girl, a Life of Hope With Tragic Endpoints
14 January 2011
President Obama and his wife, Michelle, at the memorial service. Next to the president is Daniel Hernandez, 20, an intern who rushed to the aid of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Next to the first lady is the congresswoman's husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly.
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
Christina Taylor Green was born on September eleventh, two thousand one, the day when terrorists attacked the United States. A book published the following year, "Faces of Hope," showed fifty babies born that day, one from each state. One was Christina.
Last Saturday, the nine-year-old girl was among six people killed by a gunman at a political event in Tucson, Arizona. She was the youngest victim, and the first to be buried. On Thursday, a flag recovered from the World Trade Center in New York flew outside the church where her funeral took place.
Services took place Friday at the same church for another victim, Arizona's chief federal judge, John Roll.
A neighbor had invited Christina to meet her congresswoman at a "Congress on Your Corner" event near a store. The third-grader had recently been elected to the student council at school.
Christina Taylor Green
But she also had other interests besides politics. She was the only girl on her Little League baseball team, and wanted to become the first woman in the major leagues.
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