Collection: In their own words
As the anniversary of the Jan. 8 shootings approached, the Star asked many people directly affected by the tragedy to share an act of kindness that helped them endure the pain of losing a loved one, taking a bullet or seeing innocent people die.
Many small things add up to create a feeling of understanding.
The Tucson community has blessed our family with innumerable acts of kindness, generosity, creativity and understanding. These have strengthen…
I received 900 notes, letters and postcards, and there are three of them that will always stay with me.
Christina-Taylor and I loved to play around outside in the morning while waiting for the bus. It was very lonely for me after she passed.
Students at Sam Hughes Elementary, where two of Ron Barber's grand-children go to school, made a touching gesture last January, but it require…
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez (hosts of the left-leaning talk-radio show "Democracy Now") provided me a forum to express my opinion (that far-…
Even when I was in ICU, I had been wondering what happened to my wallet after arriving at the hospital.
If you had told me last year what I'd be doing now, I'd have said, "Never in a million years."
At their opening day April 15, the Tucson Padres honored four people who helped end the mass shooting.
People often say that kindness is something random. Hence the phrase "random acts of kindness," but in the last year I've learned there is no …
I am a 75-year-old retired Army colonel who went to see Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on the morning of Jan. 8, 2011.
The stereotype of a media mob is well-documented in movies - a horde of ravenous reporters waving cameras, microphones and notebooks pounces u…
I grew up in Chicago and have been a Cubs fan all my life. I've got the scars to prove it.
I received a call from a mother, Lisia Langejans, sharing an idea her daughter, Leah, had regarding giving back to first responders of the Jan…
I can't overstate the generosity and kindness of all the people I've come in contact with.
There were and continue to be so many acts of kindness that it is truly hard to choose.
Jan. 8, 2011, was a dreadful day, a day of pain, loss and despair. But where a gunman's rage blew a hole in my life, blew holes in my flesh, k…
Following the shooting last January, my wife, Gabby, and I were embraced with a wave of support.
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The community honors the victims of the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting with bells, with prayer and …
A bullet grazed his head in the Jan. 8, Tucson shooting spree.
