Tucson tragedy aftermath: Giffords honored at State of the Union

Colleagues pay tribute to wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during the president's address as the Arizona lawmaker is set to begin the next phase of her recovery at a rehab facility in Houston.

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Jan. 25, 2011

Mark Kelly, the husband of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, watches the State of the Union address from his wife's hospital room in Houston. In his speech, President Obama said the massacre in Tucson "reminded us that no matter who we are or where we come from, each of us is a part of something greater - something more consequential than party or political preference."

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Jan. 25, 2011

As Obama mentioned Giffords, cameras panned to an empty chair in the House chamber where Giffords would have sat. Seated to the left of the chair is Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., while Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., sits on the right.

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Jan. 25, 2011

Daniel Hernandez, left, the intern credited with saving the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, watches as Fealgood Foundation President John Feal, right, presents an American flag to Giffords staffer Peter Ambler, center, on behalf of 9/11 first responders. Hernandez was be a special guest of first lady Michelle Obama for the State of the Union address.

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Jan. 26, 2011

A Harris County Constable directs traffic outside TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital before U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is transferred to the facility, where she will begin the next phase of her recovery.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is loaded onto a plane in Tucson on her way to rehabilitation in Houston.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Elston Williams, a Texas Medical Center security officer, carries flowers that were left for Giffords in front of the TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation center in Houston.

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Jan. 21, 2011

In Tucson, Giffords is loaded into an ambulance before her flight to Houston.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Mark Kelly, Giffords's husband, waves after his wife was aboard the plane in Tucson.

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Jan. 20, 2011

Hospital staff in Houston prepare a room for the arrival of the congresswoman.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Neurosurgeon Dong Kim, center, leads a team of doctors into a news conference about the treatment planned for Giffords at Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital. Others, from left are: Gerard Francisco, the hospital's chief medical officer; neurotrauma surgeon Bryan Oh; critical care doctor Imoigele Aisiku and trauma surgeon John Holcomb.

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Jan. 21, 2011

At a news conference, Tucson nurse Tracy Culbert, left, smiles as she talks about an interaction with Giffords. At right is Randall Friese, associate medical director of Tucson¿s University Medical Center.

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Jan. 21, 2011

The Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research clinic in Houston, where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will undergo rehabilitation for the injuries she received during the assassination attempt.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Giffords will first be transferred to the trauma center at the Memorial Hermann Hospital for evaluation and treatment. Then she will begin a rehabilitation program at the affiliated Texas Institute of Rehabilitation and Research clinic.

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Jan. 21, 2011

A Life Flight helicopter carries Giffords after she arrived in Houston.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Giffords is transferred from a Life Flight helicopter after landing at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

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Jan. 21, 2011

An ambulance transporting U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords leaves University Medical Center en route to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, where she boarded a plane to Texas for a Houston rehabilitation facility.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Shirley McReynolds, right, and Dortha Bradley, second from right, stand along Campbell Avenue in Tucson as Giffords's ambulance passes by.

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Jan. 21, 2011

The ambulance carrying Giffords left the hospital with a police escort and wound through the streets of Tucson.

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Jan. 21, 2011

Hundreds of Arizonans lined the route, holding American flags and alternately clapping, waving or clasping their hands in prayer.

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Jan. 20, 2011

Messages and balloons adorn a makeshift memorial for shooting victims outside the University Medical Center in Tucson. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded, is expected to be transferred from the hospital to begin rehabilitation therapy at TIRR Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston as early as Friday.

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Jan. 20, 2011

University Medical Center's Peter Rhee, left, and Michael Lemole, right, join Mark Kelly, husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as he speaks during a news conference at the University Medical Center, where Giffords is recovering. Giffords is expected to be discharged from the hospital Friday, two weeks after she was shot through the head, to begin in-patient rehabilitation at a facility in Texas, her office said Wednesday.

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Jan. 20, 2011

Mark Kelly,Giffords's husband, shows how his wounded wife touched his face at University Medical Center.

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Jan. 20, 2011

Mark Kelly stands at his wife's bedside as she is taken on a brief stroll outside on the helipad of the University Medical Center in Tucson.

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Jan. 18, 2011

Mourners gather at a candlelight vigil honoring the victims of the Tucson shooting rampage, at Scripps College in Claremont , Calif. Giffords graduated from Scripps College.

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Jan. 17, 2011

People pay their respects at a memorial for the shooting victims in front of University Medical Center in Tucson.

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Jan. 15, 2011

Safeway grocery store employees, from left, Sarah Prewitt-Cho, Dawn Gallagher, Shayne Spude and store manager Marian Huber are overcome with emotion as they observe a moment of silence at 10:11 a.m., the time the Tucson shooting happened in front of the grocery store Jan. 8. The supermarket re-opened Saturday.

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Jan. 15, 2011

Shelby Garner places a flower on a makeshift memorial set up at the site of a mass shooting in front of the Safeway grocery store in the La Toscana Village parking lot as her sons Zach and Kole Gemmill look on.

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Jan. 14, 2011

The funeral program for U.S. District Court Judge John Roll is held outside of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church in Tucson on Jan. 14.

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Jan. 14, 2011

The hearse carrying the casket of U.S. District Court Judge John Roll passes in front of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Tucson. Roll was one of six people killed in the shootings.

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Jan. 14, 2011

Mourners arrive at the funeral service for Judge John Roll at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. The previous day, the funeral for 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green took place at the same place of worship in Tucson.

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Jan. 14, 2011

A teddy bear and flowers are placed in front of the church during Roll's funeral service. The federal courthouse in Tucson was shut down for five hours so lawyers, court employees and Roll's judicial colleagues could attend the Mass and funeral.

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Jan. 14, 2011

Kim Otero of Tucson mourns outside St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Mourners began arriving at 8 a.m. By 10:15 a.m., some were turned away, as the 1,700 seats in the church were filled.

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Jan. 14, 2011

Heavy security surrounds Roll's funeral. About 100 officers from the U.S. Marshals Service, the Tucson police, the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives helped to secure the church.

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Jan. 14, 2011

Jenny Douglas, right, and Crissi Blake, daughters of injured gunshot victim Ronald Barber, an aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), announce their father was discharged from the hospital early Friday morning so he could attend the Roll's funeral.

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Jan. 14, 2011

Outside Roll's funeral, about 20 volunteers dressed as angels stood, each with a single red rose in hand. They came to keep out protesters from Kansas's Westboro Baptist Church, who had said they might demonstrate outside the service but did not end up doing so.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Roxanna and John Green, with their son Dallas, at the funeral for their daughter, 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, in Tucson. Christina was the youngest victim of Saturday's shootings.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Mourners seated in the Green family section during the funeral at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. In his homily at a 90-minute service that drew some 2,000 people, many of them children, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas said Christina went to meet her congresswoman but instead met God and "has found her dwelling place in God's mansion."

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Jan. 13, 2011

Family members follow as pall bearers bring Christina's coffin to the front of the church. National tragedy bookended Christina's life; she was born on Sept. 11, 2001. On Thursday, a 20-by-30-foot flag damaged in the New York terrorist attack hung outside the church, attached to the ladders of two fire engines to form an arch under which mourners walked to reach the service.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Pall bearers roll the coffin out of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Christina and a picture of her smiling face transfixed Tucson and much of the nation after Saturday's shootings. On Wednesday, President Obama eulogized Christina, the youngest of the slain and the first to be buried, as the face of all that America's democracy should be.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Pall bearers walk toward a hearse outside the church with the coffin of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Pall bearers place Christina's coffin in a hearse after the funeral.

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Jan. 13, 2011

The funeral hearse leads a procession to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Tucson.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Thousands of strangers lined a barren desert road, holding pink roses, candles and boxes of tissues as they said farewell to the third-grader they had never met but now knew.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Jodi Wert, left, holds her daughter Lucia, 7, while her mother, Linda Wert, holds her other daughter, Jakelynn, 9, outside the funeral for Christina Taylor Green.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Lesean Mitchell and her son Dante leave St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church after the funeral.

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Jan. 13, 2011

The hearse carrying the coffin of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green passes people lining the street after the funeral service in Tucson.

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Jan. 13, 2011

A member of the "Angel Project" stands along the street leading to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Roxanna and John Green, parents of Christina Taylor Green, and their son Dallas arrive at the church for Christina's funeral in Tucson. During the service, John Green spoke to his departed daughter: "I can't tell you how much we all miss you. I think you have affected the whole country."

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Jan. 13, 2011

The American flag recovered from Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is raised by firefighters outside the entrance of Tucson's St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, where the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green was held Thursday. She was one of the babies born on Sept. 11, 2001, who were featured in a book called "Faces of Hope."

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Jan. 13, 2011

People line the street as a hearse arrives at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for Christina Taylor Green's funeral. Christina's was the first in a series of funerals for the slain across Tucson.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Mourners line the road to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Christina Taylor Green was an A-student and an avid dancer, swimmer and gymnast. She wanted to be the first woman to play baseball in the Major Leagues.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Ann Marie Kilargis, right, is consoled by Nicholas Darochkin at the entrance of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Tucson, Ariz., before the funeral Thursday.

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Jan. 13, 2011

A hearse makes its way to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for the funeral Thursday. The church is just a few miles from the northwest Tucson strip mall where Christina Taylor Green and five others were killed.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Tatyana Guy, left, and Jeanne Davis of Tucson hold a sign outside St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Members of the Angel Project group line the street leading to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church Thursday.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Mark Kelly, left, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, (D-Ariz.), arrives at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Pallbearers carry the casket of Christina Taylor Green. Christina wanted to meet her congresswoman, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), so a neighbor took her Saturday to meet Giffords at a "Congress on Your Corner" event. Christina and five others were killed; Giffords and 12 others were injured.

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Jan. 13, 2011

Pallbearers carry the casket to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for the funeral. Christina Taylor Green, 9, was the youngest victim of Saturday's shooting.

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Jan. 12, 2011

President Obama comforted a community suffused with grief and summoned the nation to recommit to a more civil public discourse as he delivered a eulogy Wednesday evening in Tucson urging Americans to talk with each other "in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."

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Jan. 12, 2011

Obama speaks during the tribute event at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, on the campus of the University of Arizona.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Obama looked gravely serious throughout his address, pursing his lips even when the crowd screamed in delight. He appeared deeply moved throughout the service -- unusual for a president often criticized for seeing too rote or detached. When he referred to Christina Taylor Green, the 9-year-old killed Saturday, he appeared close to tears.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Family members weep during the tribute service.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Evoking memories of the six killed on Saturday, Obama seized upon the mass shooting at a congresswoman's supermarket meet-and-greet to tackle directly the subject of the nation's harsh political dialogue. He sharply decried the "politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle."

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Jan. 12, 2011

Members of the Northwest Fire District pause during a moment of silence at the memorial service.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Accompanied at the arena by first lady Michelle Obama, the president said he joins Tucson in its grief, that he arrived there "as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today and will stand by you tomorrow."

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Jan. 12, 2011

A choir performs at the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" event.

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Jan. 12, 2011

"Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let us use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy, and remind ourselves of all the ways our hopes and dreams are bound together," Obama told 14,000 people at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks at the service.

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Jan. 12, 2011

A woman cries as the Obamas greet family members of shooting victims.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Daniel Hernandez, facing the camera, the 20-year-old intern credited with potentially saving the life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), embraces Giffords's husband, NASA shuttle commander Mark Kelly.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Hernandez addresses the crowd at the University of Arizona's McKale Memorial Center.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Retired Army Col. Bill Badger, 74, holds up the hand of 61-year-old Patricia Maisch as they and others are recognized for helping disarm the gunman.

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Jan. 12, 2011

First lady Michelle Obama holds the hand of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's husband, Mark Kelly, as they listen to President Obama's address.

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Jan. 12, 2011

President Obama hugs Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), at McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson as he arrives at the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" event honoring the victims of Saturday's shootings.

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Jan. 12, 2011

FBI Director Robert Mueller, left, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder await the start of the memorial event.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Daniel Hernandez, a intern for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who is credited with providing her medical attention at the scene, speaks at the event.

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Jan. 12, 2011

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama listen to speakers at the tribute event in Tucson.

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Jan. 12, 2011

The Obamas stand with Hernandez, at left, and Mark Kelly, right, as attendees sing the national anthem.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Members of the Northwest Fire Department recite the Pledge of Allegiance during the tribute service for the victims of Saturday's shootings in Tucson.

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The Obamas listen to a speaker before the president takes to the podium.

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First lady Michelle Obama stands with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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Dr. Peter Rhee, the lead doctor who worked on Giffords.

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Family members of victims, including Bill Heilman, husband of Suzie Heilman, embrace during the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" event.

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Carlos Gonzalez gives a blessing.

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The Obamas arrive at the arena after a visit with victims at the hospital, including Giffords.

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An attendee displays a placard during the memorial event.

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The presidential motorcade arrives at the University Medical Center, where President Obama visited Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other survivors of the shootings.

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Obama is greeted by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer after he stepped off Air Force One in Tucson.

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Security personnel keep vigil as the Obamas disembark at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

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People gather for the tribute to Saturday's shooting victims on the University of Arizona campus at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson.

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People wait in line to attend the tribute.

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Jan. 12, 2011

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base to travel to Tucson to attend the memorial event "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America."

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Jan. 12, 2011

Snow covers flowers left as part of a makeshift memorial at the U.S. Capitol.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Speaker of the House John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) signs the book of condolences and the book of well wishes for the victims of the Tucson shooting before attending a prayer service for them at the U.S. Capitol.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Jenny Douglas, daughter of Ronald Barber, a Giffords aide injured in the assassination attempt on the congresswoman, speaks during a morning medical briefing at University Medical Center in Tucson. She is joined by family members, including her mother, Nancy Barber, and Gawain Douglas, right, and Jason and Crissi Blake, left.

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Jan. 12, 2011

A makeshift memorial at University Medical Center in Tucson.

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Jan. 12, 2011

A makeshift memorial outside the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in Tucson.

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Jan. 12, 2011

The makeshift memorial at University Medical Center.

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Jan. 12, 2011

A woman cries at the makeshift memorial at University Medical Center.

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Jan. 12, 2011

Flags fly at half-staff at the base of the Washington Monument in honor of the victims of the shooting rampage in Tucson.

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Jan. 11, 2011

A woman prays at the memorial outside the University Medical Center in Tucson. The memorial has been set up for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, (D-Ariz.), who is in critical condition at the hospital, and other victims who were shot on Saturday.

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Jan. 11, 2011

Messages and candles are placed at the makeshift memorial at the University Medical Center.

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Jan. 11, 2011

People gather at a memorial in front of University Medical Center.

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Jan. 11, 2011

Roxanna Green, center, mother of shooting victim Christina Taylor Green, attends a memorial Mass at St. Odilia Catholic Church in Tucson.

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Jan. 9, 2011

Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, holds his wife's hand in her hospital room.

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Jan. 9, 2011

Mark Kelly sits by Giffords's side.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Jamie Saunders of Tucson leaves flowers at a makeshift memorial at the Safeway where Saturday's mass shooting occurred. The grocery store is closed and the parking lot a scene of intense law enforcement activity.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Federal investigators comb the area in the Safeway parking lot where Rep Gabrielle Giffords was gravely wounded on Saturday.

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Jan. 10, 2011

A student at Mesa Verde Elementary School looks at a memorial for Christina Taylor Green, who was killed during the shooting spree on Saturday.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Rebecca Lovett of Forestville holds signs while standing outside the U.S. Capitol. "This is getting to be too much," Lovett said about the mass shooting in Arizona.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Daniel Hernandez, intern for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a political science major at the University of Arizona, is honored in the Arizona House of Representatives before Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's State of the State address at the opening of the legislature at the Arizona Capitol. Hernandez came to Giffords's aid after she was shot on Saturday.

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Jan. 10, 2011

University Medical Center doctors G. Michael Lemole Jr., left, the neurosurgeon who treated Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and Peter Rhee, the trauma surgeon, talk about the condition of the congresswoman.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Sarah Richelson gets a hug from her friend Wesley Jones at a vigil for the victims of Saturday's shooting, which left her high school friend Gabe Zimmerman among six dead and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition.

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Jan. 10, 2011

A fan holds up a sign for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords during a moment of silence before the start of the NCAA BCS National Championship football game in Glendale, Ariz.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Visitors line up to sign a book of well-wishes and condolences in the Cannon House Office Building Rotunda to honor the victims of the shooting in Tucson on Monday. The books will be available through the week.

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Jan. 10, 2011

The books at the Capitol for visitors to express their feelings for the Tucson shooting victims will be available to sign through the week.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Congressional staffers, House members and officers were among those signing a book of well-wishes and book of condolences in the Cannon House Office Building.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Short messages of condolence started to fill the two books in the Cannon House Office Building.

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Jan. 10, 2011

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are joined by government employees on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of an assassination attempt against the Arizona Democrat.. The shooting at a meet-and-greet outside a supermarket in Tucson, Ariz., Saturday left six dead, including a federal judge, and 14 wounded. Giffords remains in critical condition at a hospital.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Hundreds of congressional staffers line the steps of the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday for a moment of silence to honor the victims of the shootings in Tucson.

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Shooting suspect Jared Loughner, 22, had a shaved head and a cut on his right temple as he faced a federal magistrate in Phoenix on Monday. It was his first court appearance since he was arrested on Saturday.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Congressional staffers line the steps of the East Front of the U.S. Capitol for a moment of silence Monday to honor the victims and survivors of the shootings in Tucson.

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Jan. 10, 2011

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray, members of the D.C. Council and their staff gather in the atrium of the John A. Wilson Building for a moment of silence and reflection Monday.

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Jan. 10, 2011

The 11 a.m. moment of silence is observed in the Capitol Rotunda by (from left) U.S. Capitol guide Michael Judge, Theresa Nazario,Terri Womack and her husband U.S. Rep. Steve Womack (D-Ark.), and Capitol guide Ara Carbonneau.

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Jan. 9, 2011

A woman repositions a sign at a makeshift memorial outside of the district office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) a day after a gunman opened fire during a public event called "Congress on your Corner" at a Safeway store in Tucson. Six people were killed and 14 wounded, including Giffords, who remains in critical condition,

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Jan. 10, 2011

A staffer brings flowers to the steps of the East Front of the Capitol to honor the victims of Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona.

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Jan. 9, 2011

Well-wishers gather for a candlelight vigil outside the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson on Sunday night.

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Jan. 10, 2011

Rachel Cooper-Blackmore, 9, adds a note to a memorial at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson on Monday. The youngest of the six people killed in the mass shooting in a supermarket parking lot was Christina-Taylor Green, a third-grader at the school.

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Jan. 9, 2011

Megan Lopez, left, and Judith Mindlin pay their respects at a makeshift memorial outside Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's office in Tucson on Sunday. A gunman targeting the Arizona Democrat opened fire outside a Safeway in Tucson on Saturday, killing six people.

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Jan. 9, 2011

Rachel Crabb, 5, holds hands with teachers, parents and other students during a moment of silence for her slain classmate Christina-Taylor Green, 9, at Mesa Verde Elementary School in Tucson on Monday.

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