by David Safier
I just received this press release.
STATEMENT FROM U.S. REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS’ CHIEF OF STAFF ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY
TUCSON – Pia Carusone, chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, today released the following statement on the observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Arizona and across the nation.
Giffords remains hospitalized in serious condition at University Medical Center in Tucson after a gunman shot her and 18 other people on Jan. 8 at a Congress On Your Corner event in northwest Tucson. Six people, including a member of Giffords’ staff, were killed.
Carusone’s statement:
Today’s national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is an appropriate time to focus once again on the need to work peaceably to improve this nation that we all share and love.
As Dr. King wrote nearly 48 years ago in his powerful “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
As Congresswoman Giffords continues to recover from her injuries and the other families affected by this attack begin to heal, it is important that all Americans honor the Rev. King’s memory by following his example of service to their fellow human beings.
This can be an essential part of the healing process that Tucson, Arizona, and our nation must undertake as we continue to struggle to recover from the tragedy of nine days ago.
We will recover and emerge a stronger community unified in its commitment to Dr. King’s message of nonviolent change.