Hear Fred Guttenberg tonight at the DNC

[Tanuki]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

https://giffords.org/blog/2020/08/joe-biden-was-there-for-me-after-my-daughter-was-murdered-at-parkland-blog/


..."February 14, 2018, was a completely normal day—until it wasn’t. After a gunman murdered 17 people, including my daughter Jaime, it became the worst day of my life.

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Many people know Joe as President Obama’s right-hand man. I know him as a compassionate, empathetic human being, a friend and a father. Shortly after Jaime died, Joe called me and we spoke for almost an hour. When he came to Florida, he spent 45 minutes with just me, no cameras or staff. His words and his advice changed me.

He talked to me about what to expect in going through grief. He prepared me for how to be a better dad and husband for my family during this time. He also prepared me for the path that I was about to take going forward.

What got him through his hardships, Joe told me, was mission and purpose. His advice to me in my darkest days helped set me on the course of advocacy, and I’m forever grateful for that.
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Joe’s leadership style, his compassion and common decency, couldn’t stand in greater contrast to President Trump’s lack thereof. The day we were supposed to bury my daughter, President Trump blamed her murder on the Russia investigation.

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