We are with you Gabby

The remarkable recovery of Gabby Giffords has made many of us take pause and be thankful. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. She has great strength of will, her perseverance symbolizes what America is all about. We hope to see her again fighting for the things she believes in and representing her constituents to the best of her ability. There is no doubt in my mind that we will be seeing much more of this remarkable woman in the days and weeks to come. Keep fighting Gabby, we are with you.

We remember Phyllis Schneck

When Phyllis Schneck and her husband retired, they spent their winters in Tucson and summers in their native Rutherford, N.J. "They didn't want to ever have to deal with the snow again," said Schneck's daughter, B.J. Offutt of Colorado Springs, Colo. Schneck, who continued to return to Tucson in the winters even after her husband died in 2007, was a homemaker who raised her two daughters and one son and had a talent for cooking. In retirement, Schneck kept herself occupied by volunteering at her church. Her home in Tucson was less than four miles from the supermarket where the shooting took place. Offutt said her mother's appearance at the store was surprising, because she normally shopped at a different store and wasn't very political. Schneck is survived by her three children, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

We remember Dorwan Stoddard

The longtime minister of 76-year-old Dorwan Stoddard, one of the six victims of Saturday's Arizona shooting, says he had a conversation with Stoddard's wife in the hospital that leads him to believe Stoddard died trying to protect her from the spraying bullets.
"According to Mavy when I talked to her in the hospital, when the gunshots went off Dorwan pulled her down and ended up on top of her," Michael Nowak, minister of the Mountain Avenue Church of Christ in Tucson, Ariz., told HuffPost. "She was shot in the legs, and he was shot in the head. She believes in her heart that he protected her from damage."
Dorwan and Mavy Stoddard were not particularly involved in politics, Nowak said, but they stopped by Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' meet-and-greet to offer her some encouragement.
"Mavy said she just wanted to go down to meet Giffords and tell her what a good job she was doing," Nowak said.

We remember Gabe Zimmerman

Gabe Zimmerman, the director of community outreach for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, handled thousands of issues raised by constituents out of the congresswoman's offices in Tucson and Sierra Vista. Zimmerman was one of the Giffords staffers who organized many public events where voters could meet Giffords and talk to her about issues. Co-workers say Zimmerman, who had a master's degree in social work, cared passionately about helping people. Zimmerman's mother, Emily Nottingham, said politics was a good fit for him because it combined policy and making a difference for others. "He had a real interest in helping people and had a real caring for social justice," Nottingham said. Zimmerman, who was engaged, had set a wedding date for 2012.

We remember John M. Roll

Named Arizona's chief federal judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state prosecutor. Bishop Gerald Kicanas of the Roman Catholic Church's Tucson Diocese said Roll was an active parishioner. "He lived his faith as a servant of our nation for the cause of justice," Kicanas said. Roll was a Pennsylvania native who got his law degree from the University of Virginia. He is survived by his wife, Maureen, three sons, and five grandchildren.

We remember Dorothy Morris

Don and JoAnn Newland met their neighbors George and Dorothy Morris when the couple moved to their Oro Valley, Ariz. retirement community in the late 1990s.
"They were our neighbors," JoAnn Newland told HuffPost on Monday. "We would see them at the mailbox and we would talk."
Dorothy Morris, 76, was one of six people killed Saturday by a crazed gunman at a "Congress on the Corner" event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). George Morris is still in the hospital after reportedly suffering gunshots to the chest and leg.
The Newlands said that one of the Morrises' daughters stopped by to pick up a key to their house after the shooting. At the hospital, Don Newland said, George Morris, a former Marine, was well enough to talk about what happened with his daughter.
"During that conversation George revealed to his daughter that when he heard a 'pop pop' noise he threw Dot to the ground," Newland said. He thought it sounded like Morris tried to shield his wife.
"Because his wound was in his left shoulder and went downward past his lungs...the gunman had to be shooting at him while he [George] was in a prone position. That's just my take on how his wound occurred. I have not heard that from anybody else."
The Morrises grew up in Reno, Nev., and were high school sweethearts.

We remember Christina Green

Christina Taylor Green was only 9, but the third-grader already was an aspiring politician. Her parents say Christina had just been elected to the student council at Mesa Verde Elementary School and had been interested in politics from a young age. She already had told her parents she wanted to attend Penn State and have a career that involved helping those less fortunate than her. The brown-eyed athletic girl loved to swim with her 11-year-old brother Dallas, her lone sibling. Her mother, Roxanna Green, said Christina also loved animals, singing, dancing and gymnastics. She also was the only girl on her Canyon del Oro Little League baseball team. Her grandfather, former major-league pitcher Dallas Green, managed the 1980 world champion Philadelphia Phillies. Christina's father, John Green, is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Christina was born on the tragic day of Sept. 11, 2001.