In her brave remarks, the now-retired congresswoman said, “I’ve known the darkest of days.
Days of pain and uncertain recovery.
But confronted by despair, I’ve summoned hope.
My recovery is a daily fight but fighting makes me stronger.
Words once came easily.
Today I struggle to speak.”
But speak she does, in many cases advocating for gun reform.
He will run for the United States Senate this year.
But that’s far from the only thing to know about him.
Scientists then compared the brothers.
He also captained missions to space on the well-known shuttles Discovery and Endeavour.
Kelly was actually in Houston training for his next mission the day Giffords was shot.
Incredibly, Giffords would go on to recover, and by many accounts, flourish.
Meanwhile, Kelly went back into space four months later.
It’s like when I flew into space four months after Gabby was shot.
She was the first female elected official in the history of our country to be nearly assassinated.
So what are the odds that I blow up in the space shuttle a couple months later?
The odds went down.
That’s how I think about it."
But the shooting changed that arrangement.
“Now we live in the same place and see each other more than we ever did.”
I bring a different set of experiences to the table than most in Washington.
